Example sentences of "[conj] say [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past six years , however , she had done little more than declare things open , or say a few words of thanks in public . |
| 2 | The boy might break wind or say a naughty word and forfeit the protection of that great white spirit . |
| 3 | Place fingertips on the larynx whilst you hum and feel the tingling on your lips , and count up to ten or say a simple phrase in your loudest voice and at the same time concentrate on the feeling on the finger tips . |
| 4 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 5 | Or say a fan heater erm a fan heater in the bathroom |
| 6 | I mean she does n't does n't see a lot of her erm you know and but she and she was talking to her the other day because she does n't like to get involved or say a lot but |
| 7 | ‘ He just makes a mockery of those who write players off at 32 or say the Premier League is for young athletes . |
| 8 | I still can not go to a service , nor say the Creed . |
| 9 | Can you give me some idea of the eff the effect that say a death would ha when your what effect did your brother 's death have on the family ? |
| 10 | They are , are allowed to put a sign that say no goods exchanged . |
| 11 | IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT . |
| 12 | IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT . |
| 13 | Erm however he 's saying that you know where , where there is erm you know , pe peasant erm associations basically that they are trying to , you know , get together , club together and make sure that say the surcharge of , of each of land erm is at least being re reduced or abolished . |
| 14 | They worked hard for any money they got er but basically this was the idea that they could earn more money than say a joiner or a plumber or whatever , and therefore they had a wee bit of pride in themselves . |
| 15 | Oh yes , erm I think it was generally , er , they had to match the colouring of the rooms that they 'd got , the furniture they 'd got really because as far as the room was concerned er when , when the , new houses came onto the erm , ready for occupation , er they were all cream coloured inside and anyway and pale cream so they , they 'd got er any choice they wanted there it , really it was just to match their curtains , match their carpets , all their furnishings and erm , of course I suppose they , the rose coloured ones er went better than say the lemon coloured one and that because er people just er liked the idea of moving into a place that 's got a nice cosy glow in it , place sort of thing , but we never sell any at all , there 's , none of that type of fitting in , sold now . |
| 16 | British Waterways lowered the water in the section by ten inches while laying a sewage pipe underneath the canal and say a further drop in levels was caused by a leaking paddle on a lock gate . |
| 17 | Pros today should go down on their knees and say a prayer of thanks for what he did for our profession . ’ |
| 18 | These were much the best performances I have heard from him , and say a lot for the state of Horndean , Petersfield and Rogate Choral Societies , from whom the Festival Chorus were drawn . |
| 19 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 20 | There he turned and say a tall blond-haired man holding out an empty glass . |
| 21 | Pour me some more Madeira and say a prayer yourself . " |
| 22 | They passed lock-up stores , splendid Georgian terraces , and the stern front of St Mary 's Church with its massive columns which had always seemed to Boxer like the fingers of an upraised hand ordering him to halt , enter and say a prayer . |
| 23 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 24 | Why was it right to train a fellow and you knew , or you felt that , you could not go to the flight commander or the wing commander and say a think this fellow should go down the pits , " or a think we should remuster him to the Army or the Navy " . |
| 25 | ‘ I can imagine you could stand up in court and say a thing like that without blinking an eye , ’ he said as if the thought astonished him . |
| 26 | ‘ I went with a friend to see the headmaster and ask his permission to go to our local church and say a prayer for our dead King , ’ he says . |
| 27 | But Tories have attacked the decision and say a golden opportunity to boost foreign trade links could have been lost . |
| 28 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |
| 29 | It 's , you ca n't in general lay down generalized associative links and say every time somebody dreams about erm an examination it represents anxiety about their future career or something . |
| 30 | They claim some 10-20pc of Britain 's electricity could be wind-generated in the long term and say every kilowatt of electricity produced in this way saves around a kilogram of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide being emitted from a coal-fired power station . |