Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says we did have several concerns and we suggested some stringent conditions . |
| 2 | Saying it helped to quell that flicker of excitement . |
| 3 | Because yo di I said I had to send that agreement because you 're failing to meet the standard agreement , you 're not paying within the twenty eight days or the thirty days ! |
| 4 | I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair , I mean well she could n't go the week aha I do n't young enough yeah , about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some , I do n't know , she 's alright , I said yes she 'll be alright , I said I 'm going to start cooking so she said I got to take these Heather , I said well they 'll travel better in there , your father said you know Jane he said if you 'd given her a hand |
| 5 | ‘ The boy drove the whole way to Dublin on his half day to bring you home and then drove straight back and said you had to see another doctor . |
| 6 | Because of this she felt generous and said she had realised some time ago that a really beautiful man was very much more beautiful than the most beautiful woman , and was n't that interesting . |
| 7 | At one stage , she said she had experienced some conflict ‘ like being in two places at once ’ but soon realized that her real attachment was to her adoptive parents . |
| 8 | Risley Employee communications clerk Pat Hunt , who helped organise BNFL 's response to the appeal , said she wanted to thank all employees who generously donated spectacles and also the site collectors for their help . |
| 9 | ‘ You said we had to avoid each other . ’ |
| 10 | Many workers said they 'd expected another round of closures despite the earlier announcement of a reprieve for some of the collieries . |
| 11 | This is not often mentioned in the documents , but two of the surviving women compositors I was able to interview said they had started this way . |
| 12 | Richardson said they wanted to make some copies , and he and North and North 's aides copied the stack between them . |
| 13 | It is only if someone can do , has learnt , is master of , such-and-such , that it makes sense to say he had had this experience . |
| 14 | American Express , which has put a ‘ fraud alert ’ warning on its April statements , said it had refunded all complainants in full . |
| 15 | American Express , which has put a ‘ fraud alert ’ warning on its April statements , said it had refunded all complainants in full . |
| 16 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
| 17 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
| 18 | He said he had to conduct some business with the grain merchant . |
| 19 | Michael Goodman , spokesman for the Lower Ormeau Residents ' Action Group , said he had hoped any problems would have been ironed out following a meeting with Laganside , the DoE and the contractors last month . |
| 20 | He said he had made several attempts to persuade the developers , Peter and Reay Campbell , to alter it . |
| 21 | He said he had asked many times before , but he needed to tell me something first . |
| 22 | People said he had broken many hearts already . |
| 23 | Manor said he had given this dispensation on 40 occasions . |
| 24 | Fletcher said he had spoken several times to Ramprakash this winter in an effort to help point the highly talented player in the right direction . |
| 25 | One said he had spent some time in South Africa : ‘ The whites used their Bible to do down the black people . ’ |
| 26 | As an example of US energy inefficiency , he said he had spent more time going to and from meetings during the Houston summit than in the meetings themselves . |
| 27 | ‘ He said he had to meet another woman . |
| 28 | Trawler boss Alan Ayres , who has accused the Navy of a cover-up , said he had found some schoolchildren who could help him prove the Pescado was sunk by a submarine 18 months ago . |
| 29 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 30 | At quarter to eleven her old friend Jerry , the Valium addict , wandered in complaining of stomach pains and said he 'd taken another overdose . |