Example sentences of "[pron] say they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them say they 've learned from the experience . |
| 2 | ‘ Some of them say they have lost £1,000 in revenue since the scheme was implemented . ’ |
| 3 | And as as I say they had to put all the mens name in the hat and pick them out and put up a roster and they had their turn of going down the bread week by week . |
| 4 | The light beams say the target moved forward 25 centimetres ; I say they curved through the air by 25 centimetres . |
| 5 | Though these measures are not due to necessity , as the people here are glad to be of service to us and treat us with courtesy in which not a little deference is admixed , for as I say they count many simple things great wonders : my fine paste shoe buckles ( the only part remaining after some native rats that are very large and like to be tame devoured the rest of the appurtenances ) inspired much clicking of teeth and clucking of tongues till I thought I should have to part with them . |
| 6 | but er , as I say they 've grown now and got these jobs and they 're quite happy . |
| 7 | You know sometimes I like as I say they 've got |
| 8 | I say they 've finished . |
| 9 | As far as putting them up too early as well I say they get all dusty and you get sick of looking at them . |
| 10 | And eventually you you either do and he drives off and nearly runs into rams into a lamppost or something like that on his way when he 's finally given up , or else sometimes as I say they get together and er everything 's hunkydory . |
| 11 | But surprising the people that you do n't realise , you know , it troubles the parents and as I say they took them to a number of specialists and given different things |
| 12 | I know , I know , because as I say they gave a |
| 13 | Well I think the daft I say they say they pick us up but why I do n't know . |
| 14 | We 've had tons of letters — you know the sort of thing : people who say they knew the originals of the characters in Cotton Town , people who say he said ‘ bobbin-waggler ’ when he should have said ‘ throcket-shuttle ’ . |
| 15 | They fall into three groups : ( 1 ) eight working-class women who say initially that they ‘ like ’ or ‘ do n't mind ’ housework , but turn out to be dissatisfied with it ; ( 2 ) two middle-class women who follow the same pattern ; and ( 3 ) two middle-class women who say they dislike housework but are satisfied with it . |
| 16 | Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage . |
| 17 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 18 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 19 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 20 | People who say they sell drugs because they do n't have enough money , I think they 're lying . |
| 21 | Those who say they like washing up do not like the task itself — one woman likes it because she has a dishwasher , one because she has just acquired a new stainless steel sink , and the third likes it merely ‘ to get it out of the way ’ . |
| 22 | They are young and middle-aged men , many with wives and children in Turkey , who say they have suffered repeated imprisonments , police beatings and torture because of their sympathies for communist and Kurdish independence groups . |
| 23 | How can a child feel able to tell , and have confidence in those who say they have their ‘ best interests ’ in mind , when the person they have named as their abuser is to be involved in everything that then happens to them ? |
| 24 | Sometimes when I listen to people who say they have lost their faith , it strikes me as less surprising thin they suggest . |
| 25 | Since 1988 the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629 . |
| 26 | Since 1988 , the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629 . |
| 27 | The Serb action was a fresh setback for relief agencies faced with mounting hostility from Bosnian leaders and citizens who say they have not done enough to help feed up to 200,000 people trapped by Serbs in Muslim-held pockets of eastern Bosnia . |
| 28 | And even people who say they do n't care how they look care how they look . |
| 29 | A child who suffers up to forty fits a day is baffling doctors , who say they do n't know what 's caused the little girl 's brain disorder . |
| 30 | That 's one thing here , will get them in and out , but I 've spoken to patients who say they do n't get the care here and , on the surface it looks a brilliant hospital , it gets them in and out , you know , it does everything , it 's got all the facilities but it does n't give them the care . |