Example sentences of "[conj] to say [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although most girls ca n't wait to leave the home for their own place to do their own thing , some always come back to show what they 've achieved , or to say it was n't so bad in the home after all . |
| 2 | Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action . |
| 3 | Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action . |
| 4 | Other than to say I 've already mentioned er in respect of Mr 's point about his view that no new sites would come forward at forty one thousand , well quite clearly a substantial number of new sites in the residue will come forward , these will be new sites . |
| 5 | Mrs Sheblee said : ‘ We kept ringing for explanations but they refused to discuss it other than to say it would cost another £1,000 . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've paid a heavy price for our mistakes this season and I ca n't explain it any other way than to say it 's bad luck . |
| 7 | When confronted on the issue by reporters Bush angrily refused " to take any sleazy questions like that " and stated that he would not respond to it " other than to say it is a lie " . |
| 8 | Sroud District Council refused to comment on the Ropers case other than to say it had acted completely correctly in all its dealings with the couple . |
| 9 | World Cup organisers are reluctant to talk about security arrangements for next year , except to say they are treating the issue very seriously and seeking help and advice from foreign police forces . |
| 10 | Mr Jacobson refused to answer any questions following the hearing , except to say he has n't seen his brother-in-law . |
| 11 | Mr Patten did not respond except to say he was concerned about the future well being of the territory and he was ready to start talks at any time . |
| 12 | I have n't spoken to him since — oh , except to say I 'd find out what I could . ’ |
| 13 | DRA says , however , that Praxis is doing ANDF work on a mystery chip for OSF which it declined to identify , except to say it was n't the Transputer ( the 88000 perhaps ? ) . |
| 14 | I wo n't go on about the England game — you know what happened — except to say it was crap being there . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I do n't wish to comment on the use of town hall rooms for this meeting , except to say it looks like another cheap political stunt by the Tories . ’ |
| 16 | I wo n't bother with the details of the journey to China — except to say it was a bit of an ordeal , as the British Caledonian airplane broke down at Karachi ( an axle broke on landing ) , and so we were kept endlessly waiting around . |
| 17 | as if to say we have come this far , |
| 18 | Mindful of the stable-room boiler and the bucket , she gave him a brilliant smile as she stepped down and then she said , ‘ Twenty minutes , Murphy , ’ and he grimaced faintly again , as if to say he knew perfectly well she would be twenty minutes , ladies calling always were . |
| 19 | as if to say you ca n't get me now . |
| 20 | who was rather sarcastic , sarcastic , I said to her erm , oh you 're still alive then , as if to say you have n't rang me rang you . |
| 21 | Once or twice she met Carrie 's eye and smiled as if to say she felt just as she did . |
| 22 | She shrugged , not dismissively but as if to say she was helpless . |
| 23 | Undoubtedly regulation of industry has the potential power to improve social welfare and to say we should abandon it because it may not always do so is nihilistic . |
| 24 | In the detailed cross-tabulations for our main survey ( not always included in Appendix I ) , we found that women were much more likely to say they did not know what sort of interest rate to expect , and to say they did not understand interest rates well . |
| 25 | She has felt sick ever since the final board interview : four middleaged middle-class men rub their hands at her qualifications , her feminine ability to spot what they want her to say and to say it , her freaky clothes that suggest her safe token Marxism and her fashionably feminist views . |
| 26 | THE 1987 heavyweight fight betwen Joe Bugner and Frank Bruno at Spurs was my first big promotion and to say I was wet behind the ears is an insult to water . |
| 27 | Well perhaps this is a good time just to take stock and to say I know that I 'm not all that I should be and all that I ought to be , but by this time next year I 'm going to be a bit better than I am just now , in spiritual terms . |
| 28 | I knew that I was being considered for the MBE , to be announced in the next Queen 's Birthday Honours , and to say I was stunned at the thought was an understatement . |
| 29 | erm we have to continually fight , but to say we have to fight as well for our children and that is , in many ways , you know , the odds start off being stacked against us in my view erm and it is a continual battle . |
| 30 | The use of all three technical aids will improve the environmental quality of your system and reduce any free-swimming pathogens , but to say they can control the outbreak of diseases is being optimistic . |