Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [noun] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I 've just heard Alan say that they 've got a young side , and we 're similar over here , we 're playing in a good standard of football . |
| 2 | This was the most interesting thing she had ever heard Elizabeth say , because it had undertones of cynicism , of self-mockery . |
| 3 | Ruth 's sense of uneasiness was stronger than ever ; it was the first time she had ever heard Connor say he felt tired . |
| 4 | I 've often heard people say , ‘ You can always see someone worse off than yourself , ca n't you ? ’ as if this were any comfort ! |
| 5 | There 's a sense in which I think you are saying something which I 've often heard people say recently , and that is that in a day , in a time of rapid change , we personally and collectively need to make sense of where we 're going , our futures , in terms of our past . |
| 6 | She had often heard people say how Martha Gristy had been the beauty of Polruan , and she had taken pride in the fact that she was inheriting those looks . |