Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] say [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What if I was to say inauguration |
| 2 | No cos erm I was , I was saying , I was saying ages ago that |
| 3 | And er you know he was I mean for instance at Salisbury Park he probably did n't mean anything but on Saturday when I was saying goodbye to him he said now I hope there 'll be somebody here at ten past ten to open this church tomorrow . |
| 4 | but you 've worked that out yourself I like that because you you went for the salt see you knew you were doing exactly what I was saying sort of forming the pattern |
| 5 | I was saying Fred were n't . |
| 6 | I was saying Dave , Trevor Francis come on , he said er rubbish yesterday were n't he ? |
| 7 | I was saying Danny the other day do you remember the time he came and got out his in there ? |
| 8 | well er , I , I , no , that 's , that 's , that 's not what I was saying , I was saying article eighty five then concerned with , what one could describe as a malign or bad prevention , restriction or distortion |
| 9 | What d' ya you were saying Karen how d' ya have to how did you manage to do it ? |
| 10 | I thought you were saying West Side Story . |
| 11 | Only a minute or two earlier you were saying things like : ‘ It 's just a sort of a , a sort of a , a , a , a question of as it were sort of behaving sort of , well , for want of a better word , decently , sort of thing . ’ |
| 12 | And I think that analysis allowed me , on personal terms , eventually to understand things like incest , like you were saying Elizabeth , sexual violence and things like that , that I think had really weakened me as a person . |
| 13 | Sorry , you were saying Pat |
| 14 | Colin goes on to say , there is no sin in Jesus , You were saying Jack . |
| 15 | So let's leave it there and you , but you were saying Ken , you 've scratched |
| 16 | It was , as she was to say time and again , ‘ a true congregation of hearts and minds ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Nelly the Elephant ’ had just been chorus-interruptus as she was saying goodbye to the thingy , and a large girl in her mother 's dirndl skirt from IIIB was attacking the string round the paper with her teeth and pretending not to hear that the music had started again , when I felt the red drain out of my skirt and into my face . |
| 18 | Er you know sh there were she was saying things and we were just sitting er by her watching her , providing the cups of tea . |
| 19 | She was saying things like ‘ unbelievable ’ and ‘ 'doesn t make sense ’ , hut she never came to the point at all . ’ |
| 20 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 21 | She sounded to herself as though she was saying giraffes or zebras , some moderately exotic species . |
| 22 | The first time , we were saying grace when |
| 23 | We were saying Mike that er |
| 24 | That 's why I laughed when they were said Terry Waite would need counselling . |
| 25 | I 'm glad I 'm grown-up now actually because er y'know it 's one of my great pleasures in life to wake up in the mornings and think great I 'm grown-up , I do n't have to go to school and er and I do n't have to live with my parents and er things are much better now than they were say sort of y'know twenty years ago or so , er giving away my age there . |
| 26 | He was a Scotsman depending San Francisco and er situation that what you described but we were handing out food at Christmas Eve to people and people were coming up and er for their own proud they were saying things like I 'm a vegetarian or I do n't eat cheese pasties that was the case that was the only thing you had left but I mean it makes me really angry that we did not have this situation ten or twelve years ago . |
| 27 | and then someone said er they were saying people like er Peter Stringfellow |
| 28 | He looked noble , as though he were saying goodbye before catching a troop ship to almost certain death on some foreign front . |
| 29 | Later , however , he came to realize that it was more accurate for him to say Truth is God than it was to say God is Truth . |
| 30 | It was said Harper had been the boyfriend of Emma , but following a tiff at a pub that evening , he had preferred the company of Rebecca . |