Example sentences of "[vb past] say [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just stopped to say good day to these two young things ! ’ |
| 2 | Lawyer Loveitt had his head stuffed full of facts and he 'd said all men were free in England . |
| 3 | yeah , I really was quite , quite upset about it , well I do n't blame you for it I would n't of minded if she 'd said this morning when I 'd asked her |
| 4 | No I said erm I had a conversation with Gillian about reading , about little bits of reading and , I made the point that we 'd said last night about him barking at print , reading through words that he did n't know and not asking what they were and she said she 'd noticed that . |
| 5 | Then poor wee Norrie Lamont had to go grovelling to the Germans — the same Norrie you heard saying all Krauts should be put down . |
| 6 | But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street , watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it . |
| 7 | The smaller girl began to say some words from a song : |
| 8 | And she started to say this morning , oh you 're alright ! |
| 9 | The newsagent where the girl worked said last night that both paper boys and girls would now go out in pairs , or with an adult , and only in full daylight . |
| 10 | Andy 's a real mate he just kept saying straight heads er for all the times when I might have said oh , I could n't really talk to some people last night and he 'd say what you mean straight heads ? he 's right . |
| 11 | My grandma kept saying horrible things about my mother and my father kept rambling on about how much he missed her . |
| 12 | Nothing need surprise me somebody went said this bloke never advertise at all its all word of mouth , |
| 13 | God , it hurt to say those words . |
| 14 | It is surprising to hear that Mill does n't hold this view that he thinks that erm the moral health of the citizens is of concern to the government and it actually gives , although he does n't seem to recognize this , this gives a hostage to fortune to his conservative critics because of course they can say , did say that liberalism was very damaging of er morality of the public and so we need a far more restrictive type of regime than Mill allows us . |
| 15 | Er , Professor did say final words of aspiration , and I sha n't talk on aspirations , I was interested in it , and although I talked the empirical linguis linguisism . |
| 16 | I did say happy birthday to her . |
| 17 | ‘ You did say old Rowell had gone , did n't you ? ’ |
| 18 | Yes , she did say last time one of her friends would like the job . |
| 19 | Well , I , I , mean I have been in before and I did say last time we were n't very happy , . |
| 20 | Have you got to say mathematical skills ? |
| 21 | We 've got two pears and then we had we had say two bananas and then another banana how many bananas would we have then . |
| 22 | It had said four A's , four A's |
| 23 | She remembered what Deana Davenport 's friend had said four months ago — ‘ If I had a dollar for every nurse … who 's been infatuated with Tom Russell … ’ |
| 24 | If it had said 22.000 KM. it would have been all the same to me . |
| 25 | If it had said solid silver I 'd have been down the h down the s down the high street . |
| 26 | The man had said good morning and Rufus had said hallo and had returned to the task he and Mary were embarked on , covering the flagstones of the terrace with quilts from the bedrooms . |
| 27 | In her lifetime , nobody had said dear Faith , though they had loved her . |
| 28 | She remembered what her father had said that day in the Stadium ; the German Democratic Republic was a good country , a great country , a miracle . |
| 29 | Exactly as I appear is exactly as I am , he had said that day in Carlingford . |
| 30 | Stalin 's protégé , Andrei Zhdanov , who controlled the arts and still more closely the artists and architects of the Soviet Union , had said that architecture alone ‘ is able to reflect the grandeur of the period in an objective way . |