Example sentences of "[vb mod] say [pron] [is] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you what though , I must say there 's less water here since , she 's , she 's left in the garden because it used to lay here did n't it ? |
| 2 | He 'll say it 's all part of continual assessment : the whole point of the course is mass hysteria . |
| 3 | Then I suppose they 'll say it 's all management 's fault , and people will believe them . |
| 4 | He 'd tell him , he 'd get his orders from the office , cos the Deputy Harbourmaster he would go down all the sound he sound in river and see what wanted taken out , then he 'd say to my father I 'll dredge at so and so belo below docksill and docksill what they used to do they used to , my father what he 'd do he 'd put stakes on the mud , a short stake and a long stake on account of the tide and he 'd , he 'd make an imaginary on that stake , then he 'd go ashore at Wolverston , phone up what have you got on your docksill , the fella might say it 's ten feet , well he 'd say right we 'll make that twenty feet , so that 's er , that 's what he used to work on to dredge the river . |
| 5 | You could say there 's some room for rationalisation , ’ says Nissan 's British importer . |
| 6 | With all this yuppie rubbish at the moment , I 'd say it 's long hair , neat but sexy clothes , of course long nails , straight teeth , small nose , big eyes , shaved armpits and legs , nice perfume , and an independent-but-dying-to-be-subservient look about her . |
| 7 | Erm well I 'd say it 's curly sort of oh it 's dark hair , curlyish |
| 8 | I would say it is five times more difficult than at any other time of the year . ’ |
| 9 | But I would say it 's some kind of tribesman . ’ |
| 10 | Some would say there 's poetic justice in all this . |
| 11 | But let's say there 's 10 times — no , 20 times — as much as you 've sent me : that would still only be 10 pages , and my Bible ( Old Testament only ) is 833 pages long . |