Example sentences of "say [pron] [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm , that 's Linda , and er , as I say I 've known her for seven years , you can have a bit of fun , she can take a joke , she 's got a good sense of humour , and nice to work with , and she 's nice to work with . |
| 2 | As I say you 've got plenty of room to have your |
| 3 | Yeah I say you got to behave yourself to my children yeah . |
| 4 | The old hut 's been converted into a flower-shop , but the cabbies say they wanted to keep it for themselves . |
| 5 | So you see they were having a difference of opinion over that and he 's saying you should n't , you should 've left it all to me and she says I 've done it for last fifty year and , you know , all this . |
| 6 | if , if , if he says I 've done it in class and I do n't want to finish it off at home , that 's fair enough , but what 's gon na happen when he gets to secondary level and he 's got this idea that if he does n't finish it in class , that 's it , he does n't do it , he wo n't finish learning the topic |
| 7 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 8 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 9 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 10 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 11 | She says oh she says I 've left it in sports hall , it 's locked up in a locker |
| 12 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |
| 13 | He says she 's got plenty of time to have babies , but for now she 's got to focus on her career . ’ |
| 14 | Lord C had said she 'd borne them with stoicism , but looking back she realised she 'd been disappointed not to receive the whole dozen . |
| 15 | One local woman had said she 'd had it with Petrolia , packed up her things and headed south . |
| 16 | He says they seem to regard it as a holiday and those birds that are over twelve months old have been through this before and seem to look forward to it |
| 17 | She says they want to spend it on recreation , holidays , books , equipment and special aids which will help them have a better life . |
| 18 | Indeed , faced with the encroachment of other bodies into its traditional territory , X/Open says it intends to position itself as an ‘ integrator ’ between the various standards and user group efforts . |
| 19 | It was too close to Christmas to bother about embarking on any sort of adult education before it , so I pacified Toby by saying I 'd got plenty of time and would look into it after the New Year , and we settled down to wallow in being together and getting into the Christmas spirit . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've just had a call from the commissioner 's office saying you 've arrested someone with security links . |
| 21 | The SOCO drew the key from her pocket with a smile , saying she had borrowed it from the office manager . |
| 22 | Well I promise I wo n't keep them more than that , but this coming from a party that 's brought about that , and then being critical of others and the lack of intent , I think the he said it right at the beginning we have a very good education system , and I 'm saying we 've got one despite this Government . |
| 23 | He smuggled out a message saying he 'd discovered who in London had betrayed him and that he was going underground to escape . |
| 24 | In 1985 a smooth man ’ , a ‘ sophisticated hustler ’ appeared in Washington and approached North , saying he wanted to do something for the contras . |
| 25 | I said course you can I said I 'd had it for years like that . |
| 26 | I says I want to listen to it , you know , I said I 've heard it with C D going through it with about four sets of speakers , but I want to listen to it through eight sets of speakers with cassette , a cassette that I like to make sure , to my type , he says I guarantee you now you will like it , he says you will like he says , he says we do a ten day er return thing , he says you buy something , he says you bring it back within ten days undamaged we 'll give you money back if you do n't like the quality of the sound , for whatever reason we 'll give you your money back . |
| 27 | and she do , she said she decided that , you know it was a bit , well I never change me post office , said I 've had it for all these years but she said it was a lovely bungalow and she says er what |
| 28 | I said I 've had it at work this morning . |
| 29 | Jacob said nobody had used it since that terrible accident . ’ |
| 30 | I asked her , " Would you mind if I have a boyfriend ? " and she said " It depends " and I said " What if I said somebody wanted to take me to the pictures ? " and it was , " If a boy wants to take you to the pictures , he 's only alter one thing . |