Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] to say " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Oh , we still got ‘ im , ’ said the Old Stager contemptuously , indicating the Smallholder , our other opener still in the middle , who stood looking modestly and determinedly at the bottom of his raised bat , as if to say : ‘ Now it all depends on me . ’ |
| 32 | Deuce attempted no conversation and the porter , a man of about Deuce 's own age , who looked cannily at his guest as if to say , ‘ I know you . |
| 33 | Stuart gave a little embarrassed cough , as if to say , ‘ Do n't know about you , but I 'm not even halfway there . ’ |
| 34 | He put out a hand and smoothed the bear 's shaggy head , giving it embarrassed pats , while looking up at the bear-leader as if to say , Is that all right ? |
| 35 | He looked at me as I walked through the door and looked to the Gendarme as if to say , Is this him ? |
| 36 | Artemis looked up at her father and found him staring down at her with a deep frown , as if to say , Artemis felt , that she should have known . |
| 37 | Once or twice she met Carrie 's eye and smiled as if to say she felt just as she did . |
| 38 | In the morning , barely conscious , he turned to his wife " and looked at me as if to say " I 've done it " " . |
| 39 | He nodded and beckoned to her ; she shook her head , as if to say " It 's impossible . " |
| 40 | The first one looked at him as if to say ‘ Are you kidding ? ’ |
| 41 | The word brought a change over Branson 's countenance ; a glimmer of something like light , as if to say , Money ? |
| 42 | Slorne turned away and stared out through the top of her cage as if to say , ‘ There , where the skies are , where the great clouds drift and the winds blow endlessly through time , seek there and you will find what Minch needs . ’ |
| 43 | It 's not what they said , it 's the looks you got from some of the screws , as if to say , ‘ You should n't be laughing , what have you got to be happy about ? ’ |
| 44 | She looked away , then looked back at him , as if to say Do n't toy with me . |
| 45 | Dawson nodded , as if to say : Well then … |
| 46 | And so he made a gesture as if to say , It 's all yours . |
| 47 | Adele looked back over her shoulder , read it through , and then gave a brief shrug as if to say no objection . |
| 48 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 49 | She flashed another covert look back at Conchis , then leant forward and lightly pushed my arm with the tip of the brush , as if to say , Go away . |
| 50 | Fenella , hardly daring to speak , but knowing she must raise her voice above the treadmills , said , ‘ Where is — ’ And saw his eyes smile , as if to say : he is not here for the moment . |
| 51 | Blanche shrugged sympathetically , or so it seemed to the sergeant , as if to say , ‘ I understand . |
| 52 | At last they both smiled faintly as if to say message understood , over and out . |
| 53 | as if to say you ca n't get me now . |
| 54 | Dougal gave him a little nod , as if to say that he had remembered that too . |
| 55 | She tried to take his hands away , and he raised them both , and patted the air , as if to say , ‘ All right , all right , I was only doing what you wanted . ’ |
| 56 | He looked triumphant , as if to say : ‘ There , do n't you think that 's a good story ? ’ |
| 57 | ‘ Agreed , ’ Joe said , and held up his hands as if to say , See , no deception … would I lie to you ? |
| 58 | But Charlie gave her a pained look as if to say , You 've got to be joking , and Lucy tried to cover her tracks by pretending that , yes . |
| 59 | I wonder whether whoever did it was making a gesture in the direction of the Bishop , as if to say ‘ This is your beloved son ’ . ’ |
| 60 | 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 . |