Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some say they brought back the wrong ashes , and that is n't Yeats there at all . |
| 2 | But Dilys Powell could reasonably complain of Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) that there was ‘ hardly any suspense , hardly any of the building up to a climax which makes the dullest American film tolerable ’ , and enthuse about Carol Reed 's A Girl Must Live ( 1939 ) , saying it showed how the British could make ‘ a comedy which has the speed and glitter and impudence of the best American comedies . ’ |
| 3 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 4 | My mom said she had just the greatest time with you all last year . |
| 5 | Divorcee Mrs Robinson was arrested in April , 1989 , and while awaiting trial , she said she had only the vaguest idea of what she was being accused . |
| 6 | He said he remembered well the 1972 Teesside Law Courts , now used as magistrates courts only . |