Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , if she 's got a young family , I mean , nine times out of ten it 's her that 's got to watch them rather than saying to the husband , oh I 'm off to play football dear ! |
| 2 | He concluded his examination by turning to me suddenly and saying : ‘ I feel you are going to write this book one day . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Jesus called them together and said , ‘ You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them , and their high officials exercise authority over them . |
| 4 | Why not give them away while saying , " Look here , have it , so long as you spend the proceeds on buying buses . " . |
| 5 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 6 | She held out two half-crowns , pointing to them separately and saying , ‘ That 's from Father and that one 's from me . ’ |
| 7 | Norman took me outside and said , ‘ Here is the money we want to give you . ’ |
| 8 | It 's the time you stamp on someone 's foot , hard , when they barge past you as you smile at them innocently and say sorry . |
| 9 | They had got used to living in Brighton , and saw no reason to uproot themselves , but one of their tutors took them aside and said , ‘ Look , this place has n't got a proper research library , and it 's not going to get one . |
| 10 | He looked at me glumly and said ‘ I know what you mean . |
| 11 | On the following evening [ 11 July 1962 ] , as a meeting of the Committee of the Cabinet was ending , Macmillan took me aside and said ‘ The Government is breaking up ’ , and murmured something about ‘ You do n't mind going ? ’ |
| 12 | Shadwell took me aside and said , ‘ A word about the accent , Karim . |
| 13 | Another interesting question is whether you have any right of redress if , while continuing to pay your salary , your employer does not give you any work to do , perhaps sending you home and saying for some reason , ‘ Do n't call us , we 'll call you ’ . |
| 14 | C can I just stop you there and say is it relevant ? |
| 15 | I think we ought to bite the bullet and write to them now and say if you do n't pay us a cheque for this amount cos it 's qualifying we 'll collect on next date . |
| 16 | It 's it is a nationwide survey on spoken English erm there 's a somebody approached me today and said would I carry a tape around for a week and record people talking . |
| 17 | ring me today and say that 's got diarrhoea , he 'll keep the car today but he do n't want it tomorrow can you find someone else who wants it . |
| 18 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 19 | and done their work and Mark rang me here and said , on Tuesday the caravan 's great now , the fires are alright . |
| 20 | Carrie nudged him gently and said , ‘ That 'll be fun , Nick , wo n't it ? |
| 21 | Matthew looked at her quizzically but said nothing more . |
| 22 | She ate her apple pie , which was excellent , and finished off her glass of wine , only for Dr Neil to look at her quizzically and say , ‘ Cheese and biscuits , McAllister ? |
| 23 | His friend looked at him quizzically and said , ‘ They 'll be no good against that man-eating lion ’ , to which came the reply , ‘ No , but I 'll be able to run faster than you ! ’ |
| 24 | She eyed him shrewdly and said Mr Fairchild was very nice , very nice indeed , and so was Miss Blundell . |
| 25 | He looked at him squarely and said , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 26 | His Mum sort of turns him away and says summat foreign and they all walk off quick . |
| 27 | Once I had to push him away and say : ‘ Stop it ! ’ |
| 28 | There was a young American photographer with me and I saw him get caught up in it and I pulled him aside and said ‘ Do n't even take it because that 's the picture that Newsweek is going to publish . |
| 29 | When she objected to him sharing the blame with the editor , he brushed her aside and said that without the keys a lot of information would have been kept from him . |
| 30 | Most of the schemes that are put in here are actually assessed by the area highway engineer and if you 've got particular schemes , especially ones that you know you 've talked about in the past , the best way of dealing with them is to speak to him directly and say , why is n't it in this time ? |