Example sentences of "[pron] say [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I say stout supports , I mean stout . |
| 2 | Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ? |
| 3 | Now the next thing I 'd like you to note down is when I say other actors in the international system , obviously there are other governments as well but as well as governments if you , the word actors is quite often used in international affairs , if you were to list what the other actors are erm would you , would you note down them , say , put four or five other actors . |
| 4 | Wilkinson , who has cajoled and bullied to knock Cantona into shape , joked that the language barrier is still there because ‘ If I 'm saying nice things about him he seems to understand — if I suggest he works harder or I say nasty things , he finds that harder to comprehend . ’ |
| 5 | They are going along at vast speeds , and I say vast speeds , they 're twenty miles an hour over the grass and you can imagine how much they 're cutting . |
| 6 | So I my opinion , what this government 's doing is stopping stopping the lower class , well I say lower classes , the lo the the |
| 7 | Erm why I say five men , you might think that peculiar because there was a man and a conductor each time but we used to reckon that two buses , full-time buses would be scheduled by te or run by ten men because there one man would come off at nine o'clock , have a relief of hour and fifteen minutes and then another one would take over from him . |
| 8 | So I 've just got ten records on this file and I say those words carefully because you 've got ta distinguish between record , file and field . |
| 9 | ‘ I have a little prayer I say three times before I come down , ’ he said at the time . |
| 10 | Before we do this we have to apply a mapping function M. The mapping function is important because as I say these wires are connected to these pixels here . |
| 11 | I say these traps in use last year hanging in cordon pears in the lovely potager at St Jean de Beauregard in France . |
| 12 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 13 | I do n't talk to my father about physics ; it 's always a mistake because he gets cross when I say silly things , but the rest of the family get cross because they ca n't understand . |
| 14 | Now you know when someone says golden opportunities they 're not paying you . |
| 15 | but like I said nine times out of ten if I 've got pissed off with an album I change all of them . |
| 16 | ‘ When I was his age I said contentious things like he did last week , but I did not speak English very well so I did not get into trouble . ’ |
| 17 | I said armed police , put your hands up . |
| 18 | Last night Mr Heron , who works at G E Stiller Transport in Middleton St George , said : ‘ I shall repeat what I said 18 months ago . |
| 19 | Since nineteen eighty three the government has reduced financial support by over two billion pound and reduced staff by seventy thousand , resulting in less maintenance and falling safety standards and with , as I said higher fares , but fewer services . |
| 20 | and er , she said oh yes please and I said fifteen minutes you know , she said , since I 've seen the Solicitor I feel a different person , I said you look different , you look ten years younger , she said everybody 's telling me I look ten years younger . |
| 21 | I said that weeks ago . ’ |
| 22 | What I meant was when I said five proposals |
| 23 | I said five minutes . ’ |
| 24 | She said how long er it was last time you cut your hair , I said five months and she said aah it 's a lot . |
| 25 | ‘ I said stupid bastards ! ’ |
| 26 | So I said Well no , I said Two hours it 's got to be otherwise you 'll never cover for that . |
| 27 | Two years , I said two , Neill he said one , Like I did n't argue , I did n't argue , I said to Roy who 's it how long is , how 's Sue 's sister , I said two years , the said no , one year , I wo n't argue . |
| 28 | Well I think , like I said two ways one is erm |
| 29 | Erm the training course er as I said two days er I 'll count it as a full training course . |
| 30 | If you 're here because I said certain things about you after the race , you can sod off back south right now . ’ |