Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slightly shocked , I hear myself say , ‘ No ’ . |
| 2 | ( I hear myself say this and cringe . |
| 3 | ‘ Come on now , ’ I hear myself say , ‘ Let's clean you up . |
| 4 | I heard myself say to him , though the different sections of my brain seemed to have slipped out of synch somehow , and I was aware of all sorts of different things at once , and time seemed to have slowed down and at the same time some part of my brain was racing , trying to come up with some logical explanation for what was going on that did n't involve calamity … and failing . |
| 5 | ’ You 'd need the smarten up , you know , ’ I heard myself say like a schoolmaster . |
| 6 | We were talking and I heard myself say , " It must have been a very terrible experience , being with those Apaches . " |
| 7 | So , next time you hear yourself say those words — I 'm starving — think about what you are saying . |
| 8 | Or as you shut your front door and panic for a minute , thinking you have left your keys inside , you hear yourself say ‘ It 's all right . |
| 9 | She heard herself say , as if it were someone else : ‘ What is it you want from life , Christopher ? |
| 10 | Again she heard herself say , ‘ that' , and then she managed to stammer , ‘ w … was my sister , ’ before the floating feeling overcame her and she-knew she was falling into somewhere . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll never forgive you , ’ she heard herself say . |
| 12 | She heard herself say , ‘ So she 's S. Kettering ? ’ |
| 13 | With her conscious mind telling her what to say and do , her emotions rebelled and she heard herself say something quite contradictory to its orders : |
| 14 | She heard herself say , ‘ Why not ? ’ but if the words reached him he made no sign . |
| 15 | When he slid his fingers across the spring of gold curls , parting the intimate secret of her , finding the hard nub of her womanhood before slipping below to the hot , molten tightness at her centre , she tensed and then capitulated in a flood of aching heat , and she heard herself say his name , moan his name again and again . |
| 16 | I 'm Lisa Howell , ’ she heard herself say . |
| 17 | She heard herself say , ‘ You seem to be forgetting about Nina . |
| 18 | Her lips parted to tell him so , and then she heard herself say , to her own amazement , ‘ Take me to Les Hiboux , please . ’ |
| 19 | And then , to her astonishment , she heard herself say , ‘ Should n't you go upstairs and see how Janice is ? |
| 20 | But , instead , she heard herself say , ‘ I 'm terribly sorry . ’ |
| 21 | Then she heard herself say in a voice that sounded almost normal , ‘ Of course . |
| 22 | He made himself say to me at last , after weeks of dithering like a frightened diver on a rock , ‘ D' you think my Jammie will ever go in bed with me ? |
| 23 | He made himself say : |
| 24 | The topic lasted them all the way back to the Campo San Maurizio and it was not until they were climbing the stairs up to their respective rooms that he let himself say : |
| 25 | ‘ It 's the … polyneuritis … ’ he heard himself say , as Donald sneaked towards the medical dictionary , his big handsome head bowed with concern , his grey eyes looking into the distance , in the direction of the local tennis court . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't know they paid that well in the nick , ’ he heard himself say loudly . |
| 27 | He heard himself say : ‘ May I sit down ? ’ |
| 28 | " I was only kidding ! " he heard himself say . |
| 29 | ‘ Your family are lucky to have you , ’ he heard himself say suddenly . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd really appreciate your help in locating just who had what keys , ’ he heard himself say . |