Even if I just knew I was going to say something completely bizarre or downright weird. |
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I was about to say something when I realized my shoe was sinking in the mud. |
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When we say something is a part of our nature, it makes it seem to be a permanent, unchangeable thing. |
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I hope that he does say something a little off skew and controversial on the show to spice things up. |
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The types of scales that are present in fossils permit us to say something about the dermal musculature. |
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The general prepared to say something to them but halted, seeing the two myrmidons' faces. |
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She started to say something, before finally snapping her mouth shut and spinning around on her heels. |
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I think its a snub to their belief system and they feel disloyal if they don't step up and say something about it. |
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I opened my mouth to say something more but the words could not be voiced as I was silenced by the scene in front of me. |
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She opened her mouth to say something, but Valora Adora bustled back into the room with a small stack of neatly folded colorful clothing. |
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You can say something that will either nurture the relationship or tear it down. |
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She looked to him, expecting him to say something, yet he continued to stare into space. |
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She wanted to say something that so harsh and cruel that it would make Alex feel worse than he had made her feel. |
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As a head Stubbs was charismatic and outwardly eccentric, making it policy to shake every child's hand and say something nice about them. |
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Anyway, I'll take the charitable approach and assume you didn't mean to say something that sounds incredibly arrogant. |
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The next time you say something corny and someone calls you cheesy or a cheeseball, you take that as a compliment, okay? |
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I turned to look and saw this man standing there and just before I could say something, he spit his chew on the sidewalk next to my feet. |
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I have always been very susceptive to such things, and I could tell she was going to say something that I wouldn't like. |
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The work is an attempt to say something interesting by exploring the author's hunches and intuitions. |
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I could say something about hussies who are all over another girl's boyfriends. |
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I recognised him and tried to say something but just ended up shuddering and gasping breaths, hyperventilating. |
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He disagrees with something or is confused, and he makes a move to say something by slightly opening his mouth, then closing it. |
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Rather, these are performative utterances, which do not so much say something as do something. |
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I'm sorry, but you wouldn't get out of my face so I had to say something to make you stop. |
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Sometimes, I even faked being happy if I felt the producer was trying to get me to say something bad. |
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If I asked speakers how to say something in colloquial Indonesian, they would invariably provide sentences in the formal language. |
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And on the days when I say something that angers and infuriates you, tell me! |
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King went on to say something that conservatives who bandy about his pining for a society in which race doesn't matter are loath to repeat. |
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Perhaps if enough of his buddies feel this way, but are afraid to say something, they might help stage an intervention. |
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Veronica opened her mouth to say something, but Raven plunged ahead and cut her off. |
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He obviously wanted to say something crude about the flatness of the battery. |
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It seems that in Japanese there is simply no way to say something that simple without cosseting it heavily in a bunch of formal etiquette-stuff. |
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Put a microphone in the face of the fool clergy, and they will say something stupid. |
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Just as Kimberly was about to say something else, the intercom crackled to life. |
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So we have to say something as we stand up there and pledge under oath to love each other forever. |
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Paul opens his mouth like he's going to say something, and I cream him with a pillow first. |
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He stared pointedly at one old crone who watched him distrustfully, daring her to say something. |
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How do we know he didn't say something crude or rude or vaguely threatening to the woman before she swung at him? |
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It's like he wants to grow up and say something, but just can't resist donning the Fatboy suit and chucking a custard pie or two. |
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The prince drew himself up, nostrils flaring as if he was going to say something. |
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I just started the biggest freelance gig of my life, hopefully I'll get to say something about it soon as one part should launch next week. |
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This may say something about which journalists are singled out for promotion to the prestigious position of columnist. |
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A sly glint came to his eye then, as if he was about to say something mischievous. |
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The semantic job of sentences is to say something, which is not to be confused with naming or denoting some thing. |
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Amanda opened her mouth to say something but I put an end to that by throwing a salt shaker at her. |
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And as she started to say something, I became suddenly aware that I could see a dim shape where she stood. |
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As I turned up the tap even higher, I could still make out Clark trying to say something to me over the dim roar. |
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Derrick wanted to say something, anything to make the situation look a little less dim, but he couldn't find the words. |
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He'd looked down at her and she'd given him one of her gummy smiles and for a moment I thought he was going to say something to acknowledge her. |
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She was forced to say something of this to Mr. Lesley when he asked her about her distractedness, but he could say nothing to reassure her. |
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I ran a hand through my hair and was about to say something, when Jess stormed past, a small, frustrated sound escaping her. |
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An estate agent might be on the side of the seller, but he or she will never knowingly say something that's not true, Craig says. |
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Though she wanted to say something, she felt it more to be in her co-worker's field of expertise. |
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A defence expert may be viewed by the jury as hired to say something that would help the accused. |
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She was about to say something but her quick eyes had caught the mass of women slowly stalking toward them. |
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Kent endured the bitter ache of wanting to say something to Charles for a very long time. |
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I suppose I'll have to keep out of their way for the next few days, else I might say something I'll regret. |
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He manages to do or say something really annoying and despicable so often that it's wearisome. |
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Before you say something about somebody, make sure that you actually know the facts. |
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Does anyone out there still heed the old admonition, If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all? |
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That may or may not say something about English pleaders, English advocates, and English jurors. |
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I don't know why the rest of my colleagues didn't say something to me because I was talking flat tack. |
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If they say something too early then they can be accused of crying wolf and if they wait too long then people ask if they have been asleep. |
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He opened his mouth slightly trying to say something, but he only coughed out more dark red blood. |
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He was about to say something to her when the others realized it and knocked him on the head and dragged him away. |
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If someone did make say something anti-Semitic, would I take the yarmulka off and walk around in a baseball hat the rest of my life? |
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When the Orthodox would say something outrageous, the Vatican would make remonstrances privately, but never in public. |
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You are taught that if you say something in your lede, you need to back it up. |
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She opened her mouth to say something but Adrian cut her off. It was an annoying habit he had. |
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At night the stars lay heavy on me, but I'd be stuffed if I'd ever say something like that to anyone. |
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I just hope it will not be one of those cases where they say something will be investigated just to appease the people. |
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Simon opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by the distant rumbling of thunder. |
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But does it not say something if they are still trying to get more money by lowering themselves to prostitution? |
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Some beneficial reasons to say something are to provide social lubrication and to convey information. |
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I can't believe that person actually had the audacity to say something like that. |
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Your employee could say something potentially libelous, whether maliciously or accidentally. |
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If that doesn't say something about the small-fry nature of our theatre scene, I don't know what does. |
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I was about to say something when Austin interrupted by letting out a loud scoff. |
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Tom was probably going to say something else, but at that moment there was a loud bang and the bus went screeching to the right. |
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They feel they have to make some worthy comment, treat the city with some kind of moral scrupulousness and say something appropriate. |
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It must be possible to get away from mateyness, the lingua franca and analytical chitchat in discussing music, yet still say something real. |
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You want to say something about it, to share some of your personal experience of it. |
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Could you say something about what elements of the Barthian position particularly attracted you? |
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The verb base is what you look up in the dictionary when you want to know how to say something. |
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Avi was about to say something when someone came from behind him and yanked Adreana into a tight bear hug. |
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Once in a while they would say something about the leader being senile and wanting revenge on me. |
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He opened his mouth and began to say something, but stopped short, and stared at Naomi for a second before continuing in a hushed tone. |
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He wanted to set me against him, to get me to say something stupid to John, to force John to choose between me and him. |
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As if waiting for them to say something, there was a blast from below stairs. |
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Stine was about to say something back, but at the touch of my hand, his eyes slowly closed. |
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She didn't mind, she just watched him and hoped that he'd come and say something to her. |
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Initially careful not to catch himself out, or say something that might subsequently trip him up, the Biarritz-based Scot pauses for a second. |
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I have always said I'm not trying to get people to say something that they don't mean, I'm not going to trip them up. |
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She stayed by my side, and defended me when someone decided to say something negative to me. |
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You write them off as beyond hope and then they turn round and say something that makes you wonder if they weren't right all along. |
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He looks me directly in the eye, and I want to say something but my mind is absolutely blank. |
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And you know sometimes even very late in the disease he would say something and he'd go, uh-huh. |
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And you do not need Mother's Day to do something special for your mother, or say something special to her. |
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I can't help but feel that I should take advantage of this opportunity of a free platform to say something. |
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Steven stepped closer, signalling me to do or say something, and out the corner of my eye, I saw Paul flinch as though he was ready to throw another punch. |
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He drew breath to say something, but the knight cut him off coldly. |
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Nonetheless, it may be possible to say something about the genetic component of Ed's facticity, since both parents were treated for depression, and he had type I diabetes. |
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It's like they want to say something but they can't spit it out. |
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Best Boy is one of those rarities, a true-life documentary that transcends its basic subject matter and premise to say something universal about the human condition. |
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Not that any proper Canadian would ever say something so tart or sardonic. |
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He looks at her helplessly, then makes as if to say something. |
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He hesitated as if about to say something sharp, then surlily he agreed. |
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In addition, the performance of the Dow does say something real about the U.S. economy. |
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Mascara is a movie that wants to say something deep and profound about young women in a society that has convoluted the rules as to what makes them female. |
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James was about to say something when the coach driver started to talk to them in French, with a Geordie accent, which was the oddest thing any of them had every heard. |
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Takumi opened his mouth to say something, but was cut off by loud squawks. |
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Shawn sat up to say something, and he hauled off and backhanded her across the face. |
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Does it make you a bad guy because you say something and then someone ends up getting killed? |
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When I ask him what it has been like to deal with Cartwright and other military officers, Koh starts to say something, then stops. |
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Usually this happens when they say something in a very haughty tone that doesn't make any sense, as though I should have anticipated their screwball question. |
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It does say something for the strength of this half-season, however, that Terminus feels so far away now. |
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I was about to open my mouth to say something but he cut me to the quick. |
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It only takes one to say something blokey and everyone starts in. |
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Hearing the stories behind their music choices gives us a chance to find their vulnerabilities, and maybe even go a bit off-piste, if they say something unexpected. |
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He was already engrossed in a conversation with another guy from the soccer team about a play that he disagreed with by the time she went to say something. |
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Erin was about to say something when the weird bell sounded again and the students filed onto the field, and all at the same time, stopped and looked over to the cameras. |
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I almost expected him to say something about exacting that pain to me, but he merely bowled me over with a charging headbutt, smashing me into the wall. |
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It would stop for a moment, and then I'd begin to say something and I'd get that tickly scratchy feeling in my throat and I'd fight it but then I'd start coughing again. |
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You open your mouth to say something, but only one thing comes out. |
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My tween announces that she must and will say something to him and she darts away. |
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She wasn't the sort of girl to say something like that that meant another, still curiosity killed the cat and James had never been able to resist asking. |
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Because you've phoned to say something about a submission, someone may write down your name and the title of your book, and pass the note on to the slush readers. |
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Does that say something about the character of the individuals involved? |
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We were going to say something funny and trenchant, but we were re-enacting an Irish funeral service at the pub last night, and so are in no shape to respond. |
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But first of all, in a reflexive mode, let me say something about my own background which will help to place my interests in this conjunction of cultures in context. |
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Yet the mention of sacrifice before brought to mind a story that intrigues me and seems to start to say something deeper than I have words to express. |
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Matt flagged me down and as I pulled to a stop, he ran over to my side and was about to say something before I put my hand up to gesture him to stop. |
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And you thought I was going to say something naughty, didn't you? |
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He'd come in and say good evening, then say something very witty and charming and then it would proceed to be a television show where people were getting cut up. |
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How did the novel evolve away from your original idea of it, and can you say something the editorial process, the paring away. |
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Josh was just about to say something when someone shone a torch at us. |
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I did a broadcast in which I said, I'm signing off now because there's a censor standing there and I'm not supposed to say something and I'd rather say nothing. |
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I can at least count on my roomies to say something if I start to stink. |
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Hold your tongue mister, you're going to say something stupid. |
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Can you say something about your poems being so preoccupied with grief and loss, and the suffering brought to you by the suffering of another person? |
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Why then would you think we would say something that is considered anti-establishment. |
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Firstly, the writer, like the language, is subject to the situation, in that he or she must say something meanable. |
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Every time I thought he was on the verge of telling us, he decided to say something else instead. |
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Do you think that God is a tautologist? Let us have faith! Let us say something positive. Irony of itself is the beginning of baseness. |
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She waffled on for ages. Usually I'd say something smart or make it obvious that I wasn't interested and couldn't be bothered listening. |
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A lot of the students who left luggage tags said they found it really easy to think of someone they wanted to thank or say something nice about. |
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Then as you're taking his picture, say something about the thirty dingers he's going to hit this season. You get that little extra smile on his face. |
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As I tuck into a delicious Danish pastry I picked up on the way here, I'm beginning to understand what the Danes mean when they say something is hyggeligt. |
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If we say something and people reject it because they don't like that it is true then we must resay it, and keep resaying it, until the truth is heard. |
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Why would you say something so hurtful? God, you are such a stirrer! |
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But if I can say something distinguishes Rumanian film it is the idea that something very small that happens to you is as good a subject as a saga. |
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