Example sentences of "[coord] say [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ? |
2 | 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 |
3 | 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 . |
4 | A top critic , Jeffrey Taylor of The Mail on Sunday , saw rehearsals of the ballet , and said it contained erotic love scenes . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Regional Magistrate Gerry Harty agreed that the firm had a good record and said it bought vast quantities for distribution to its various stores . |
7 | He denied forcing the teenager to go with him in a car and said she had many chances to leave him . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Corbett , acting his part , looked nervously back down the street and said he needed certain potions . |
10 | 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 ? |