Example sentences of "[adv] to say [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I do say to the honourable gentleman is his argument is rubbish , bad for the third world , bad for the people of Europe and outside Mr Deputy Speaker I 'd be glad to give him his answer although quite rightly to say I ca n't give it here . |
| 2 | Merely to say it does not magically dissolve the particular trouble we face as Christians who doubt . |
| 3 | I called merely to say I could n't meet up with you tomorrow . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll be bold enough to say we wo n't be relegated , ’ said Atkinson . |
| 5 | John Cole , Skelmersdale : ‘ Morrissey obviously believes what he is saying and is brave enough to say it whatever the consequences . |
| 6 | So that 's why we we make the advert curious enough or enough curiosity in it , no vagueness I suppose we make it vague enough to say I 've got to phone in . |
| 7 | Not an easy job , but he 's kind enough to say I 'm invaluable . ’ |
| 8 | Share salesmen , even after A-Day , have upraised their status in the eyes of clients by quotation of imaginary praise from other clients , e.g. " One of my clients is kind enough to say he 's never had a bad tip from me . " |
| 9 | He had only to say he admired Grace Bird 's fortitude and instantly her chin stiffened with resolve . |
| 10 | You had only to say you wished to go back to the car — ’ |
| 11 | Only to say I came back and saw glass as another might see it . |
| 12 | Someone 's phoned in to say they found it on the grass . |
| 13 | There was one instance when the tanker had left and we were low on fuel that we radioed in to say we were coming home . |
| 14 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
| 15 | Dee-Dee drifted in and out , offering coffee and company , and Tremayne put his head in to say he was going to Oxford to see his tailor , and to ask if I wanted an opportunity to shop . |
| 16 | ‘ A pilot of a ten-seater has radioed in to say he 's having undercarriage problems , ’ explained the manager . |
| 17 | Just came in to say I 've been summoned to the presence . |
| 18 | I just looked in to say I 've found my watch , Nurse Dungarvan . ’ |
| 19 | I think it 's a bit wrong perhaps to say it did n't affect Britain . |
| 20 | This is not to say we never punish a horse : sometimes we must . |
| 21 | Which is not to say we wo n't accept sponsorship . ’ |
| 22 | That is not to say we have no satisfactory conception of the particular causal circumstance . |
| 23 | That is not to say we should adopt the hard sell or abandon our traditional value , but we must seriously examine how we can appeal to more desperate scattered membership . |
| 24 | He also sees a rosy future for superstores : ‘ Superstores wo n't take the same percentage of the market as in the US , but that 's not to say they wo n't do well — they will . |
| 25 | That 's not to say they do n't want things they 're not currently getting . |
| 26 | ‘ They come and go a bit silently , of course , but that 's not to say they 're furtive . ’ |
| 27 | I mean that 's not to say they 're not still a threat but at the moment er Leicester are starting to boss the game again and that 's the important to them . |
| 28 | He was smiling widely at her now , saying , ‘ I had to tell nurse not to say they were n't coming in to see the doctor they expected . |
| 29 | But it 's important not to say they 've only got two minutes for something , and then let them go on for ten . |
| 30 | well the brochures became , were dated each year , the service charge , a date was put on the service charges each year , that 's not to say they were , th they automatically changed , it depends on how long the scheme had been open |