Example sentences of "[pron] say they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hearing dogs for the deaf have become increasingly popular over the past ten years — now the staff who train them say they ca n't cope with the demand . |
| 2 | I do n't know , people l I 'm of them say they ca n't afford to pay the kids , and get the food for the kids , and they 'll have to give them chips a couple of , every day of the week or whatever , but th there 's no need for that . |
| 3 | whatever I say they ca n't hear me . |
| 4 | I say they should n't get away with that . |
| 5 | To find its value , attention is focused on the proportions who say they would break the law , ignoring proportions who say they would never break it ( figure 13.6 ) . |
| 6 | There are still those who say they ca n't get used to Citroen steering and that the suspension makes them sick ; there are many more who say getting used to any other sort of steering after driving a D- or C-series car is much the more difficult adaptation to make . |
| 7 | But it has upset some shopkeepers whose deliveries have been disrupted , and disabled drivers who say they ca n't get into town . |
| 8 | The firm has been put into liquidation by it 's owners , who say they ca n't afford to pay redundancy money . |
| 9 | The families of those shot at dawn , still hope that Ministers who say they wo n't rewrite history , may yet change their minds and give every victim of the great war , the same respect . |
| 10 | Among the 82 per cent who say they will definitely vote , the Conservative lead increases to two full points , with the Tories on 40 per cent and Labour on 38 per cent . |
| 11 | Supporting her , other women who say they could also lose their homes because they 're separated from their RAF husbands . |
| 12 | She says they ca n't take legal action . |
| 13 | I mean anyone who says they ca n't manage on what they get , er they ca n't feed the kids on what they get , probably go in the pubs five or si six nights a week , and smoke too much and but erm I mean these never go without a meal or anything like that . |
| 14 | People who said they would n't borrow money were excluded from this study . |
| 15 | AE 's sometimes addressed themselves to irate people who said they would never invest in futures , let alone through DPR . |
| 16 | Very clear skin responses to the pheromone were recorded — even in those who said they could not detect the odour . |
| 17 | she said they 'll not know you 're doing it , I swear |
| 18 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |
| 19 | She would n't he had some lovely irises but she would n't buy them cos she said they would n't last . |
| 20 | so they just call it E T , she said they can actually send you to a place where you can get you , your experience and er because they 've sent you , you get an extra certain amount , ten pound a week , cos you 're going through the job centre |
| 21 | We said they could n't have the corpse if we did n't get it — that 's by the by — but it 's understood by both sides that this is the last of such meetings . |
| 22 | Last February , we monitored their reactions and not one said they would not come back . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd like businesses , rather than coming to me saying they ca n't get what they want from schools , to be like Unipart and go out an find what they want . |
| 24 | They say they wo n't leave without a fight . |
| 25 | And although the police stress they want to educate bad drivers as much as land them in court , they say they wo n't hesitate to prosecute those who deserve it . |
| 26 | They say they wo n't buy mahogany from loggers convicted of malpractice , but insisted an immediate stop on the trade would cost jobs . |
| 27 | They say they wo n't believe that . |
| 28 | Like , say they 've been out on a run and there 's a call , they say they ca n't go out because they 're not in uniform and are all sweaty ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 27 ) . |
| 29 | I 'm saying this because GCSE includes a section on improvisation , and a lot of teachers ca n't do it ; they say they ca n't do it … |
| 30 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |