Example sentences of "say something " in BNC.
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| 1 | I concentrate on your face and say something back to you . |
| 2 | ‘ Well for God 's sake say something , ’ she yelled . |
| 3 | You 'd better fall out before you say something you 'll regret . ’ |
| 4 | So you 've got to do something , say something . |
| 5 | Then we see the health care professional come out of the room and say something like , ‘ I 'm sorry , we did all we could . ’ |
| 6 | Now , although the polls have only just closed , I think that , on the basis of a sample of the replies to our invitations , we can make a projection about the number of people coming to this party and also say something about the ‘ social mix ’ . |
| 7 | At CNN every hour they want a live piece , say something different , so they 're under a lot of pressure . |
| 8 | You say something like , ‘ three blind mice ’ — the last letter is e . |
| 9 | When they are contacted by reporters following up on a story , they typically say something equivocally critical about IQ 's heritability , so as to quarantine themselves from controversy and , above all , to protect-themselves from false charges of racism and elitism . |
| 10 | I wanted to tell him , Go on , say something sensible . |
| 11 | Photographs say something , often very subtly , about how the photographer sees and relates to the landscape . |
| 12 | The conductor would smile , give us a pat on the head , and say something about ‘ nice looking kids ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Somebody say something ? ’ |
| 14 | Say something about Jesus sometime ! |
| 15 | If they are the same say something like ‘ I think this is going to be a fun game ’ and at the same time smoothly slide a card from the top to the bottom . |
| 16 | ‘ Say something , Faither , ’ she urged . |
| 17 | Following a brief chat with my fellow editorial staffers concerning such unimportant matters as choosing a writer or an illustrator appropriate to the piece , I will go to see Brian , our in-house number-cruncher and say something like , ‘ Hello Brian , ’ ( I always like to get meetings off to an informal and uncontroversial start ) ‘ I 'd just like to discuss next week 's cover story . ’ |
| 18 | Rev Jim Caterer , vicar of Standish , said : ‘ I never say something is impossible but in this case I wish I could say just that . |
| 19 | ‘ I usually say something about going for boldness and colour , but that is really a question of choosing artists by their style . ’ |
| 20 | It can not be too strongly stressed that the subject of letters is all-important and that , even though they may be complete with the signature , they are of little virtue or worth unless they say something of at least modest significance . |
| 21 | They say something like this : ‘ Here you are , a cultured person , you know and understand the meaning of this ancient monument . |
| 22 | I 'm going out before I say something I 'm sorry for . ’ |
| 23 | They say something about the faith necessary for Christian belief in Jesus . |
| 24 | Oh ’ — he jerked his big head to the side — ‘ I never open me mouth but I say something . ’ |
| 25 | She could still hear her mother 's voice saying , ‘ Do n't sit looking at me like that , child ; say something . ’ |
| 26 | I said to my husband the other day ‘ Say something nice to me . |
| 27 | Say something nice about my legs . ’ |
| 28 | Say something like , ‘ I promise not to get cross if you hit on the truth ! ’ and encourage honesty , as well as sensitivity . |
| 29 | They may sit around watching their child play but only say something when the child starts to misbehave ; injunctions not to do something or to be careful or not to make so much noise focus on control issues only . |
| 30 | One of my friends was at Sherborne and speaks very posh — I took him back to my place for a drink one day and my dad was going , ‘ Dennis , listen to Tim , listen — go on , talk , say something ’ and my friend says , ‘ Well I do n't know what to say really , Mr Waterman , ’ and my dad says to me , ‘ Why do n't you talk like that , you could make a fortune . ’ |