Example sentences of "[conj] say [pers pn] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Marje says : ‘ I think I 'm not so different from my readers , who write and say they have brutal husbands , and how they are beaten night after night by drunken swine who abuse them in every way and yet they still go on living with them . |
2 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
3 | THE Indian government defeated an opposition censure motion in parliament yesterday and said it had vital evidence to identify those responsible for a series of bomb explosions in Bombay . |
4 | He denied forcing the teenager to go with him in a car and said she had many chances to leave him . |
5 | Unfortunately , the company seems to have lost its way of late — even Mr Sugar is on record as saying he has little idea of where the next 1512 is going to come from . |