(1) He probably was taking the counsel of his senior ministers, but not giving an aye or a nay - at least not in public.

(2) It will be spent, nay squandered, on unnecessary digital radio stations.

(3) It's all a judgment call at the end of the day, and one person usually will step in and say yea or nay .

(4) It is upsetting, nay distressing, to read that Leeds United Football Club may be forced into administration with debts totalling eighty-one million pounds.

(5) After all, do they think that we have forgotten that for months - nay , years - they have time and again denied being on the Army Council?

(6) My window is over the desk, and provides plenty of light and an ample, nay unparalleled, view of the neighbour's shambolic back yard and the train tracks in the mid-distance.

(7) Permission to build the superstore will take months, nay years

(8) Nay, I must not think thus

(9) Never mind me, I don't suppose the kids in the next field, nay the next village, got a wink of sleep all weekend.

(10) As you know, he's on the Judiciary Committee, which must vote yea or nay on sending her nomination to the full Senate.

(11) As the site says: u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510This country, nay this planet, is going to the dogs.u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb

(12) It is all told in his ornate, nay , bombastic prose.

(13) But do not forget that at the end of the day it will be a Plans Panel of councillors (not including me) who say either yea or nay , so the more people who write to protest the better.

(14) Come up with details to support your yea or nay verdict.

(15) No one at the garage door company seemed able to tell me yea or nay .

(16) By refusing to keep her emotional problems to herself and instead parading them in front of the nation, she implied - nay , screamed - that such behaviour was not merely permissible but required.

(17) Nay nay , they wrote him off in the '80s as a dinosaur, but he's back big time.

(18) What better chance to re-employ the hordes of laid-off middle-aged workers from State-owned companies and all for free, nay , even a substantial profit could result.

(19) Yes, I know it's rather stilted, nay overwrought, prose.

(20) Which is partly why I and so many other Brits - nay , the rest of the world - shook our heads and rubbed our eyes in bewilderment when he got into the White House four years ago.