Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] say [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Laurence said acidly , ‘ You are meant , you know , to be amorous of little Lily — You can not leave all the passion to Polly and me … ’ |
| 2 | Demand from investors will determine how many new shares are issued , although Pittencrieff said yesterday it will retain a majority stake . |
| 3 | No , I say she 'll er she 'll have to do something about it cos Mick said well , he just said to me no he said well what can she do ? |
| 4 | They were all silent as he finished until Julia said softly , ‘ And God bless that good man . |
| 5 | so he said you do n't have to move on a Friday cos Mike said well do we have to move Friday ? |
| 6 | Nobody could think where until Scott-Scobie said cheerily : ‘ Buy'em all over , gun shops and so on . |
| 7 | He left home on the word of promise ; he was prepared to sacrifice his son because God said so ; and his trust in God was estimated in terms of relationship to God . |
| 8 | Most Smiths fans are good old carnivores and unlikely to give up meat just 'cos Morrissey says so . |
| 9 | When Melanie said so to her aunt , the older woman scribbled : ‘ Those are the de luxe models , these are the standards . |
| 10 | And as Alison said there , tomorrow she 'll be moving on to Edinburgh to find out the score there for parents , children and those dreaded buggies . |
| 11 | That 's now been placed in proper context by the arrival of Samantha as Head of Communications , as Judy said earlier on , we 're already beginning to enjoy the fruits of her skills , in the presentation surely you 're seeing today . |
| 12 | As Cobbett said afterwards , the people had wanted the Act " that it might do us some good ; that it might better our situation … and not for the gratification of any abstract or metaphysical whim . " |
| 13 | We staggered out into the Madrid evening ‘ full of piss and vinegar ’ , as Dana said later , and somehow made our way to the Puerta del Sol , where there is a large circular fountain . |
| 14 | At first she was n't so keen , always complaining of tiredness or soreness or emotional unease ; but these days , as Odilo says again and again to all his friends ( and the compliment , I think , is pitched decorously high ) , she bangs like a shithouse door in a gale . |
| 15 | As Scott said later , the judges ‘ were not Gothicly disposed and though they awarded premiums to all the best Gothic designs they took care not to put any of them high enough to have much chance ’ . |
| 16 | Good d Good does in fact do what you said and his recommendation er for final salary schemes is er a third of the trustees should be or have the right to be er from the , the members and er er we 've in our er comments to you have er looked at a global point of view and said no not are these proposals worthy in themselves , but using a different criteria that if they had been law as Ken said earlier , would they have stopped Maxwell and a situation where a third of the trustees were er were they members er would have made no difference er cos typically in our cases there were originally about four trustees er and unfortunately for us , three of them were named Maxwell . |
| 17 | But neither Dr Neil nor Matey thought that , and when Matey said hesitantly , ‘ You do n't think it 's the obvious … ? ’ |
| 18 | Framed in the doorway Jack stood as a figure of authority , a heroic figure , it was like the return of Odysseus , as Franca said later to Ludens . |
| 19 | One evening a few weeks later , Matilda was having tea with Miss Honey in the kitchen of The Red House after school as they always did , when Matilda said suddenly , ‘ Something strange has happened to me , Miss Honey . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm , er , the director of the National Osteoporosis Society and we started five years ago and as Helen said just now , we are in the business of informing women , not saying all women should be going on hormone replacement therapy ! |
| 21 | When Grainne said rather diffidently to Raynor , ‘ People have been happy here , I think , ’ he said at once , ‘ Yes , there is happiness here . |
| 22 | I rather think that he still lives in and as Marg said coyly to me one year , he had given her a lovely little candle in a special little bowl with , with water |
| 23 | Dawn 's eyes filled with hatred as she glared at Sophie , and she was about to say more when Helen said quietly , ‘ Come into the office . |
| 24 | We have as Mr said already this morning , we have no regional guidance . |
| 25 | Paragraph three looks at the guidelines in detail , and starts with the additions , and as Mr said earlier , we do welcome the fact that there is an explicit mechanism for the cost of client number increases in social services in the coming year . |
| 26 | If hunting were banned on all of that it would only have a small marginal effect but we can as Mr said only ban hunting on land we both own and control , land in hand , that actually totals a hundred and fifty eight acres , slightly smaller than Victoria Park but that includes road , bridleways , land with no access , S S S Is , Sites of Special Scientific Interest , land awaiting disposal the land capable of being hunted and in hand totals fifty two acres about as much of Victoria Park as I can see from my front window . |
| 27 | Now as you probably know this is a level nine course it 's a it 's a course on which a platform is erected for other courses as Gordon said then the the introduction to management you have to make a short presentation do n't you but it does n't concentrate just on this . |
| 28 | But as Arthur says though perhaps some of the Asian words will start being used by the English people . |
| 29 | it does n't matter because all of them are as it happens fairly er new and indeed as Kevin says quite correctly , dry because they have n't been used for a long time . |
| 30 | ‘ You must , ’ Myra said when Claudia said as much on her return from the hairdresser . |