Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adj] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was that she and her book would have nothing complete to say to the age until her grandfather 's misspent energy had been redeemed inside herself . |
| 2 | We 've known each for long enough to know that silence is better if there is nothing specific to say . |
| 3 | Are you suggesting that Jean has nothing interesting to say ? |
| 4 | The completion of the canon of Scripture by the early Church does not signify that they thought the Lord had stopped speaking or that he had nothing fresh to say . |
| 5 | Still Carrington could think of nothing sensible to say . |
| 6 | ‘ When people are faced with lots of troubles and they do n't know what to do , there 's always someone ready to say anything , just to get some power , ’ said Grimma . |
| 7 | There was no hint of warmth in her tone , and Alexei could think of nothing appropriate to say . |
| 8 | One of her good qualities was the ability to keep quiet when there was nothing appropriate to say . |
| 9 | He had nothing much to say about poetry . |
| 10 | As the years stumbled by she found that she had nothing much to say to anybody . |
| 11 | … it could have no real importance after the visit to Osborne in the course of which Napoleon III having tightened the alliance with England had nothing much to say to the Emperor of Russia , his enemy of the day before yesterday , his friend of yesterday — but not his ally of today , which he might have become had it not been for the recent drawing together of the Courts of the Tuileries and St James . |
| 12 | As usual , he had nothing much to say , but he was always agreeable . |
| 13 | Rose Hilaire herself had nothing much to say . |
| 14 | I could think of nothing better to say than ‘ I 'm glad you think so , Joe . ’ |
| 15 | The need was to reconcile the ‘ ecclesiastical ’ and the ‘ congregational ’ elements , and while he insisted that ‘ Nonconformist churches must , beyond all question , be built to see and hear in ’ he had nothing good to say about the vast preaching halls , such as the Metropolitan Tabernacle , with a bit of tracery and the proportions of a barn . |
| 16 | When I calmed down I realized I was defending an organization I refused to be in , though I had nothing good to say for the one I 'd left it for . |
| 17 | As Christians we must not be intimidated by secularisation : if we are , we have nothing distinctive to say . |
| 18 | Peter Yeo opened his mouth to speak , and found nothing useful to say . |
| 19 | Our politicians are so often silent about law and order because they have nothing useful to say . |
| 20 | I really had nothing useful to say , so I responded with a sympathetic noise that only made Robin-Anne shake her head impatiently . |
| 21 | They were slightly embarrassed that he had been left out , but had agreed at the time that there was no sense in phoning him at home because he would have nothing useful to say . |
| 22 | Perhaps they decided he had nothing useful to say — ; which is n't far from the truth . |
| 23 | In other cases it is shaped by personal preference ( e.g. you already feel that you have something specific to say on a particular work ) . |
| 24 | A rather awkward silence began to stretch between them and she strove for something pleasant to say . |
| 25 | I think you have something definite to say — and I hope I have made it easier for you to say it . ’ |
| 26 | I will post to whole group again when I have something definite to say . |
| 27 | And I must not only sit here and endure all this I must read her account of it at the end of the day , and think of something polite to say about it before I find ways of rewriting and neutralizing it . |
| 28 | That would be something funny to say to his best man when he came . |
| 29 | People meet me and they get all excited because they think I 'm going to have something funny to say . |
| 30 | Aphids , even I am at a loss for something funny to say about them . |