Example sentences of "say [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to remember what Mrs Hollidaye had said about the many different ways of being brave . |
| 2 | He does indeed regard the latter case as a splitting of the name " Balak , king of Moab " across two lines ( he calls it " binomination " ) , but that can not be said of the former case . |
| 3 | Precisely the same can be said of the many divine beings reverenced from within Hindu tradition . |
| 4 | ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ . |
| 5 | How can I make him see his colleagues will look down on him if he says in the same old rut ? |
| 6 | He is now hoping to raise enough money to return to Bosnia to continue his work , and while the thought he had to kill still haunts him he says in the same situation he would not fail to kill again . |
| 7 | It reveals all that has been said in the many policy launches and the speeches that have been made all over the country . |
| 8 | Prepare lists of utterances which may all be said to the same tune , e.g. following example from Portuguese of Brazil : listen to each list in turn listen to pairs , one word from each list , across insert one utterance from list 2 near the end of list 1 , and vice versa , and listen to check that you hear the difference between them standing out clearly |
| 9 | Perhaps the best way to start on this is to ask ourselves what would be lost if we were to speak without intonation : you should try to imagine speech in which every syllable was said on the same level pitch , with no pauses and no changes in speed or loudness . |
| 10 | Several other students were concerned about their inability to understand what was being taught in the lectures ; a commonly expressed view was that they could n't take notes and follow what was being said at the same time . |
| 11 | And now she was saying with the same delight , about someone else , ‘ Absolutely . ’ |
| 12 | You can nae get a perception of , hear about you 're saying to the another person , you know ? |
| 13 | junior Colts , sorry junior Colts , and he said erm ah had a bit of a roll at the beginning and then towards the end now we 've sort of lost loads in a row so I said , he said alright I said about the same with us then I was , so I said it 's cold and he said mm yes it is rather . |
| 14 | I would n't disagree with Mr in what he said about the more cuts we have the better it looks and so it stands to reason it 's a question of cost . |
| 15 | They make it for you , ’ he said with the same lack of expression . |
| 16 | Mrs Cullam put the baby on the table among the crumbs , removing its napkin which she dropped on the floor , and said in the same low economical tone , ‘ Get me another nappie , Georgina . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We must consciously set out to win new constituencies of support , ’ Mr Gould said in the same room where five hours earlier his opponent , Mr John Smith , mounted his own challenge . |
| 18 | However , the court also said in the same paragraph that Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 101/76 required member states to respect the principle that there should be no discrimination against nationals of other member states . |
| 19 | Cautiously she admitted it but said in the same breath that it was of no consequence because her father had died for political reasons . |
| 20 | ‘ Once I began to put together my chain of companies , I had certain responsibilities to the people I employed , ’ Julius said in the same curt tone . |
| 21 | He released her abruptly , as though the physical contact was distasteful , and said in the same flat , grim voice , ‘ Reporting back to Daddy ? |
| 22 | It was with difficulty that Greg restrained himself from saying ‘ What ! ’ , but knowing that his colleague would assume that he was being told he was about to become an unmarried father , and spread it , he said in the same world-weary voice : ‘ That 's very interesting . ’ |
| 23 | He said in the same low , intent voice : ‘ Is this what you expected of me , Harry ? |
| 24 | General Philippe Morillon , the commander of the UN 's forces in Bosnia , said on the same day that he expected a solution soon to the siege of Sarajevo . |
| 25 | The FRY recognized the independence of Slovenia on Aug. 13 , but the Slovene President Milan Kucan said on the same day that this recognition meant nothing " until the FRY itself obtains international recognition " [ for wide international recognition of Slovenia in January 1992 , see p. 38703 ] . |
| 26 | ‘ Their views should be given weight only when they are clearly representative of opinion in the Parliamentary party or the Conservative Party as a whole , ’ he said on the same programme . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm sorry — ’ they both said at the same time . |
| 28 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 29 | ( If say something is ‘ yours ’ you will say of the same thing that it is ‘ ours ’ when you refer to it ) . |
| 30 | What I can say in the former case , at best , is " This is how people tend to look when they feel joyful " or " This is the kind of physical expression ( or behaviour ) that we associate with the joyous state " . |