Example sentences of "[verb] say [pron] [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no idea Simon had sent off her photo for the slimming contest until a letter arrived saying she was in the final . |
| 2 | Those who did get going said it was worth the effort . |
| 3 | You did say you were from the W I did you ? |
| 4 | The plot is complicated even by Agatha Christie standards , but putting it as simply as possible , Mr Smith said a report had never been produced , Mr Major interrupted to say it was in the Commons library , the Labour MP Tam Dalyell said what was there was not a report at all and Tristan Garel-Jones , the Euro Minister , said it sort of was . |
| 5 | Close colleagues who had decided he had to go said it was for the ‘ greater good ’ of the party . |
| 6 | They just stopped him from choking the life out of bobby Carter because he had said everybody was for the war : if we did n't show them Russians what was what , who would ? |
| 7 | There has been coverage with such as yourselves and er the local papers , and we are getting word of mouth enquiries now , but we , we have said it 's for the newly qualified driver and since we 've started this scheme , I would put newly qualified in inverted commas , because we 've had two or three ladies ring us up who 've had four and five years driving experience as such and they 're frightened to death to go on a motorway and have n't been on a motorway . |
| 8 | A DPP official yesterday refused to say what is in the report . |