Example sentences of "say the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I say the first floor , I 'm talking about the ground floor and the first floor , you know ? |
| 2 | ‘ Just say the first thing that comes into your head . ’ |
| 3 | International law experts say the first reason is the strongest and the last the weakest . |
| 4 | What I 'd like to say is I think erm certainly in Scotland and in Strathclyde area that four years ago , erm the first women in transport survey was actually carried out , erm and it was carried out elsewhere in Britain and er this was as I say the first study that had been done and the results were very surprising . |
| 5 | should we , should we look at say the first Friday after the middle of January , something of that sort , I , I have n't got a calendar on my desk at the moment I 'm afraid , but erm |
| 6 | He and his family say the second operation was unnecessary , and the hospital , the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford , was negligent ; a claim Oxfordshire Health Authority deny . |
| 7 | SunPics , which still has to go over to SVR4 , should take longer , say the second half of 1993 . |
| 8 | But as I say the last bit where you sa dur during the course of the , of this conversation it almost sounded as though you were gon na , you 're doing it parrot , parrot fashion whereas the rest of it was , was superb , there was no , no problems in that . |
| 9 | Experts say the 16th century drawing is the earliest hand-painted map of the Fens . |
| 10 | This experiment was quickly followed up by others using protein synthesis inhibitors , all essentially leading to the same conclusion — that if protein synthesis was prevented during the period over which an animal was trained , or for up to about an hour subsequently , then although the animal could learn the task , when tested on it some time later — say the next day — it behaved as if it were naïve . |
| 11 | But relief workers who rescued them say the next challenge is to ensure they do n't suffer psychologically from what they have witnessed . |
| 12 | They say the fourth child is the most dangerous . |
| 13 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 14 | . Said the first time she came round she did n't look at it , and then , after that she looked really I hope she does n't fall . |
| 15 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 16 | it was like Windows One that was it said the last Windows version that would run on Two Eight Sixes . |
| 17 | Tallis 's case is convincing , though he has certainly not said the last word on the matter , and there may well be further arguments from those who are professionally engaged in linguistics . |
| 18 | Bedford , Massachusetts-based Progress Software Corp says the first products from its collaboration with Object Design Inc , Burlington , Massachusetts , will be available at the beginning of 1993 . |
| 19 | Commenting on the company 's figures ( see opposite ) , AT&T Co chairman Robert Allen says the first quarter results , excluding the accounting changes , auger well for the rest of the year . |
| 20 | The choirs interpreter says the first part of the tour was fraught with problems . |
| 21 | Boss Robin Miller says the first issue of computer games magazine Nintendo Magazine System sold a massive 150,000-plus copies . |
| 22 | He arrived before them to coordinate their integration into the first U S Marine expeditionary force ; he says the first task for his men will be acclimatisation with desert temperatures still in the high nineties . |
| 23 | Dr Haritos-Fatouros says the first rule for those selecting potential torturers is : do not hire a sadist . |
| 24 | PRO says the first application binary interface specifications will be put before the PRO board in December , with beta tests scheduled for January 1993 . |
| 25 | Let us go , says the second proposition , and find somebody else , some wise man who will be able to answer the unanswerable , who can tell us which are the sheep who can properly raise their prices , and which the goats who ought to keep their prices stable or lower them ; and then , when he tells us , we will all go and scream blue murder at the goats and make them thoroughly ashamed and sorry for themselves . |
| 26 | The Treasury Secretary , Michael Portillo says the next Budget will include extremely tough decisions . |
| 27 | Billy says the next Pumpkins LP might actually blow it for them in terms of commercial success — just when the going was getting really good . |
| 28 | De Nitto says the third snapshot of the distributed services module was frozen last Thursday and will go out to members in September , following testing . |
| 29 | Ms De Nitto says the third snapshot of the distributed services module was frozen last Thursday and will go out to members in September , following testing . |
| 30 | Rowbotham says the third years have made the Cherry Orchard look like a cotton-wool factory . " |