Example sentences of "[coord] say [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | say do it once and say we want six years , put equals equals equals |
2 | 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 . |
3 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
4 | Put your foot down and say I want that car whe if you do n't , if you do n't do it now |
5 | If , if you buy a p a new pair of shoes and realize they 're faulty and you go back the next day and say I bought these shoes from you yesterday , I 've still got my receipt , I believe the shoes are faulty , can I have my money back ? |
6 | right , you go upstairs , pick up the most expensive article they 've got and then you go downstairs to the customer relations department and say I bought this article yesterday and say , and , and I 'm afraid |
7 | , writes : PLEASE end an argument and say who has most vans and lorries , British Telecom or the Post Office . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Perhaps I ring up Irena and say you need more French ? |
10 | Now he has been promoted and says he needs more time . |
11 | I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth . |
12 | Microsoft Corp says it has now shipped the second and final pre-release version of the Windows NT operating system to 70,000 customers and software developers , and says it offers significant improvements in performance , application support , networking and hardware compatibility ; release of the product is set for next quarter . |
13 | And saying it saying that way , we love animals as circus people . |
14 | Now I listen to there , I do n't listen as often now unless there 's something big on , and you hear them , you know , check on , whatever it is , your vehicle check and I have seen them as little as five seconds coming back and saying who owns that car |
15 | A top critic , Jeffrey Taylor of The Mail on Sunday , saw rehearsals of the ballet , and said it contained erotic love scenes . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Regional Magistrate Gerry Harty agreed that the firm had a good record and said it bought vast quantities for distribution to its various stores . |
18 | He denied forcing the teenager to go with him in a car and said she had many chances to leave him . |
19 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
20 | Corbett , acting his part , looked nervously back down the street and said he needed certain potions . |
21 | So she took the handbag back into Tesco and said I found this handbag erm and they said well give me your name and address and all that so in any rate what happened Bet ? |
22 | But say you use brown rats from the sewers instead . |