Example sentences of "[pron] says [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says since the crucifi |
| 2 | And I turned right round and I says , the boy with the sling said it was n't me , I says to the big one , I said , do you want your legs in plaster ? |
| 3 | I was just takin' off my apron in the smithy when I says to the guv'nor : |
| 4 | I says to the little kid , when nanny and mums do n't take , well I do n't anyway . |
| 5 | So I says round the back or something . |
| 6 | This assessment is borne out in part by what Gandhi himself says about the need for sexual renunciation in order to realize God . |
| 7 | And I do n't care what she says about the wonderful home-style kosher cooking . |
| 8 | ’ I hate that term , ’ she says above the screeching parrots . |
| 9 | It 's grown into a different shape over the years , ’ she says of the abundance of jugs , pebbles , paintings ( almost all done by members of the family ) , china , and even animal skulls , which jostle each other to form displays everywhere you look . |
| 10 | She says of the building societies : ‘ How dare they ignore the real needs of loyal customers by pursuing a marketing ploy which only benefits a few . |
| 11 | ‘ It would be nice to have it published , but even so , I have got a great sense of satisfaction from finding out things for myself , ’ she says of the volume , which includes 230 illustrations . |
| 12 | it 's an old , old house but she says at the top of the house |
| 13 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
| 14 | The latter makes up what she says on the spot depending on the enquiry . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll take it , ’ she says to the old woman . |
| 16 | She says to the sergeant , ‘ Look at my face . |
| 17 | When she came round after the anaesthetic the first thing she says to the nurse is , Well , was I or was n't I ? |
| 18 | She says in the old days women used to look out for each other 's children . |
| 19 | She says in the longer term there are substantial benefits from returning organic matter to the soil . |
| 20 | Erm , features er a female university lecturer who 's who says of the Victorian novel that it comes out right by marriage , er either marriage , legacy , or I ca n't remember what the other one was , there were three categories . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's the sort of thing one says at the end of lectures — especially now we have all those bed-sitter Marxists as students . |
| 22 | He says considering the conditions it 's very good . |
| 23 | He says over the last five years it 's got far more popular … it 's a sport which is developing … it 's just opening up as a competitve sport … |
| 24 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |
| 25 | The unsympathetic nature of his criticisms is also illustrated by what he says about the requirement that such universal premisses be ‘ better known ’ than their conclusions . |
| 26 | What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’ |
| 27 | Gandhi could certainly quote the teaching of the Gītā in support of this view , but it would still not detract from what he says about the demoralizing , degrading , and brutalizing effects of war . |
| 28 | Much of what he says about the roads and tracks depicted there is perceptive and useful , but even Professor Hoskins is wrong in the attribution of many of them . |
| 29 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he says about the Army Cadet Force , with which many hon. Members will agree . |
| 30 | When left alone with the tape recorder for two minutes , he says into the microphone : ‘ Is it on ? … |