Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You say you did not know Nona Pitt well . |
| 2 | Er but we can write these with some f flexibility , and erm there is a deferred income version , where you can run it so you were say you did n't need income five years , you can run it for five years , then la then leave it erm and just take the annuity income as er as , as er regular income . |
| 3 | Finally , a protest from a woman who says she had just finished Helen Bullock 's ‘ oh-so-true ’ article when her husband came in and said : ’ ‘ There seems to be a bit of toast on the floor in the other room ’ . |
| 4 | James has said he did n't know Gardiner was going to stab White . |
| 5 | Earlier yesterday an Inkatha spokesman had said he did not think Mr Mandela would dare to attend the funeral . |
| 6 | The most consistently bearish — well he is a Brit — Stephen Smith of PaineWebber , says that until recently , saying you did n't like IBM was ‘ like standing up and saying I do n't like apple pie . ’ |
| 7 | Mona assumed a quiet dignity before saying she had not wanted Eliot upset . |
| 8 | When Mrs Carlson went round she had a glass of something , excused herself from a chicken leg saying they had just eaten dinner . |
| 9 | Durance shut him up , saying he had never had reason to doubt the woman 's loyalty and inferring that it was more reliable than Maurin 's . |
| 10 | The reason the Democrats lost was that Stevenson lacked ‘ the presidential image ’ — which sounds suspiciously like saying he did n't become president because he did n't become president . |
| 11 | ‘ You did n't believe me when I said I had n't distracted Simon and you would n't have believed me if I 'd told you it was your child I might be carrying , ’ she replied , her voice shaking a little despite all her efforts to project a calm image . |
| 12 | He said I 'd always relished scenes |
| 13 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 14 | And that 's when you get the problems , I had a chap ring me , he wanted to report a crime , and he says well you 're only just down the road , at , I said no I 'm not I 'm at Sherwood Lodge , he said I did n't ring Sherwood Lodge I rang police station |
| 15 | To say I did n't have time would not be true , but that I did n't really want to make time . |
| 16 | ‘ You said you did n't like ideas . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ First , ’ Benjamin continued , ‘ When we arrived at Coldstream , the prioress said she had not seen Irvine . ’ |
| 18 | Already back at work today , Mrs Williams said she had n't had time to be frightened . |
| 19 | I 'd told her I worked for the Post and she said she 'd already told Rain all about it . ’ |
| 20 | As soon as she could , without appearing rude , she said she 'd better take Lisa home . |
| 21 | Gillian said she did n't want flowers , she did n't want to , to , they thought they were a waste of money and er she said , needed , she 'd wanted to send any , if you wanted to send any just to send it to , to nursing . |
| 22 | She said she did n't think money ought to stop people living , actually living : making their lives little when they could be big . |
| 23 | She said she did n't mind Elizabeth being Queen at all , and had no doubt she was a very good one too , but that it was evil and presumptuous of her — the illegitimate daughter of an excommunicated heretic and a beheaded adulteress — to set herself up as defender of the Faith . |
| 24 | Frederica said she did not make associations between colours and other systems like alphabets or days of the week . |
| 25 | Rosemary who had a caesarian operation just four months earlier , said she did not touch Carssier She told the tribunal , just look at me ! |
| 26 | Last night a Liverpool spokeswoman said she did not know Souness 's precise plans for today . |
| 27 | Most corporate buyers we spoke to agreed that B A's doing deals much like those from other airlines , indeed Merrel-Lynch said they 'd just dropped B A having got a better deal elsewhere . |
| 28 | Angry neighbours said they had repeatedly alerted officers and council officials after Jason Harry , six , and his sister Natalia , five , were heard screaming week after week . |
| 29 | Only five per cent of those who bought for cash said they had even considered credit as an alternative . |
| 30 | System builders that Microprocessor Report spoke to at Comdex last month said they did not expect volume production of Intel Corp 's Pentium chip until mid-1993 at best , suggesting the part has slipped another few months . |