Example sentences of "[pers pn] say [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
| 2 | I said look a working woman needs a working man to help support herself and her children . |
| 3 | but as you say wanted a tiny amount anyway so |
| 4 | The sequence of what you say makes a considerable difference to success . |
| 5 | I 've devoted so much time and energy to creating Tessa and it feels marvellous that it 's actually come off , ’ she says taking a big puff on her roll-up . |
| 6 | for the night , so , cos the woman at the hotel said er , oh she said want a double room this time not a single |
| 7 | I would n't define integrated and balanced individually , I 'd link them together , because to me they appear to be er a concept , that you move towards , and the concept to me is shall we say to provide a balanced population structure , which is n't biased to any one sector shall we say , it 's not an elderly , it 's not a retirement village there like perhaps you have in er certain parts of er er North America , and the second element of the concept is that it should provide a range of services compatible with its size , but I qualify that by saying , but not all the services that the people in that settlement require , and this brings me back to my discussion , debate with Mr Curtis . |
| 8 | Since we know that he is out to deceive and destroy , everything he says has a second meaning to us . |
| 9 | An example of this is found in , in a recent book by Richard Dawkins , where , and here I quote Dawkins , Dawkins says Lamarckians are traditionally fond of calluses , that is you know , erm , hardened skin , thickened skin , like on the sole of your feet , and he contrasts these Lamarckians who like callouses , with the Darwinian , who he says has a ready answer , in terms of natural selection . |
| 10 | Karpov also claimed that the Soviet Ministry of Nuclear Power , which he said had a vested interest in obscuring the facts , had exercised undue influence over the parameters of the study . |