Example sentences of "say [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cigarettes were passed to Mr Say during the day . |
| 2 | Listen to what Gabe Mirkin and Martshall Hoffmann in The Sportsmedicine Book say about the athlete 's heart : |
| 3 | He needs not to forget that there are demonic forces in the universe whatever people say about the existence of the devil . |
| 4 | Whatever they say about the law being on the landlord 's side , if they wo n't go , the law wo n't make them . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've wondered about the implications of the placing of the head in the font , ’ Theodora said thoughtfully , ‘ and what you say about the possibility of its being a symbolic gesture . |
| 6 | The Minister is attempting to paint a comprehensive picture of what those in industry and commerce in Northern Ireland say about the privatisation , but what about the views of the Northern Ireland Economic Council ? |
| 7 | What does the environment you work in say about the company and its attitude towards employees ? |
| 8 | Chimpanzees for instance have enormous canine teeth , but the males have them and not the females , so the idea here is that normally a big canine tooth , a sexually dimorphic canine tooth is probably related to inter-male conflict , rather than to killing and , and whether , how that affects your er what you say about the spacing I 'm not sure , but certainly it would be a safe erm generalization to say normally big canines are an aspect of sexual dimorphism and in mammals are very common . |
| 9 | You say about the Moat House being expensive , well it might be expensive to you or I as an individual , but when you 're negotiating conference rates in the area it is actually cheap and very suitable . |
| 10 | And If what you say about the state of his finances is true then he 'd have every reason for faking his death to escape the music . |
| 11 | ‘ And I do n't care what people say about the age difference . |
| 12 | As you say about the interlock . |
| 13 | The things people say about the book business . |
| 14 | Did you hear my teacher say about the book ? |
| 15 | The second question was : If everything is determined by some fundamental theory , then what we say about the theory is also determined by the theory — and why should it be determined to be correct , rather than just plain wrong or irrelevant ? |
| 16 | This new use meant a severe criticism of the earlier knowledge , since Marx believed that the studies he was using had originally been made for exactly the opposite purpose to his ; they had been made in order to justify the oppression which Marx say as the core of the capitalist system . |
| 17 | A group of villagers had spent the evening in the Red Lion , and after closing time Young did the run in the nude , some reports say as the result of a bet . |
| 18 | ‘ No , I was only thinking about all those prayers we say for the conversion of China . |
| 19 | Many of us look forward to that festive season and yet say after the event , ‘ I am glad that is over . ’ |
| 20 | so erm , and it said to me , erm , say after the beep , and I did n't understand quite where the beep was , right . |
| 21 | I heard the hon. Member for Staffordshire , South ( Mr. Cormack ) say of the poll tax that it was the most misconceived legislation ever . |
| 22 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 23 | Moreover , as the guide-books say of the guanaco , ‘ when annoyed , they spit . ’ |
| 24 | It 's easy to see why many people say of the place ‘ Once seen never forgotten ’ . |
| 25 | But experts say with the easing of trade barriers across Europe , the threat of an outbreak grows stronger . |
| 26 | Erm do you have to be registered say with the council at that address ? |
| 27 | The staying power having endurance again you say with the feeling of the mind as well as the , the body . |
| 28 | And how often do we , when faced with great masterpieces , say with the Apostle , ‘ I believe , Lord help my unbelief ’ and express to others an ecstasy which we do not actually feel ? |
| 29 | People must be allowed say in the development of their own environment . |
| 30 | I go back to what I say in the beginning . |