Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] say [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you know I , I actually had phrases like bra burning thrown at me and erm I I said that feminism to me is about having the same opportunities as men and I put few of the phrases er er you know along those lines and so everybody round the table said well yes I believe in that too , I said well then you 're feminists and so it 's about valuing or devaluing words as well and you know you just made the point about changing words , but how far do we go with this ? |
| 2 | That one e erm I mean I 'm a I was just I I said twenty pound O six , it was a quick calculation , it ends up at seventeen per cent margin . |
| 3 | but I you said three hours or so . |
| 4 | Huddled behind a clump of trees , several villagers pointed to an anti-aircraft gun mounted on a truck in the valley far below which they said Serbian forces had used to pummel their homes . |
| 5 | And as to dictatorships — in which he says two people in every 100 are interested in politics as opposed to three in a hundred in a democracy — you could argue that some dictatorships succeeded because they appealed to primitive instincts in people who were not interested in politics . |
| 6 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 7 | The past becomes present to him with a total immediacy and a complete conviction which he says intellectual memory could never achieve . |
| 8 | Lastly , there is his first ‘ model ’ of agriculture , with its paupers , ruthless exploitation etc. , of which he says pre-revolutionary Russia was an example . |
| 9 | And this is supported by recently-appointed Employment Minister David Hunt 's statement in which he said British Government backing is unconditional . |
| 10 | The Government 's green paper on the future of the BBC spoke inspiringly of the particular needs and interests of the UK 's constituent nations , which it said any recast structure should reflect . |
| 11 | you know those orange drinks , which it says real oranges in nine times out of ten , it is n't there 's always some additives and what have you |
| 12 | How is it that you do n't know and in your letter to me you said this trust did not know where that money had been withdrawn at the same time Andrew director of Eastern Arts was quite happy to write to me to tell me why he was quite happy to tell the press over the phone why how is it the trust did n't know ? |
| 13 | Well you you said one A four sheet now you 're saying it 's double-sided . |
| 14 | To save you what say thirty seconds ? |
| 15 | And of course er er i i I think it says something it says some thing for the morale , you see , that er and political understanding you see , that you can accept all these things , see , er er and still er and still carry on determined . |
| 16 | He said er we had a big hoo hah he said er I borrowed some money off him he said some time ago to do something with and I had n't got the money he said and when I sold the plot of land he said I paid him back what I owed him cos borrow the money . |
| 17 | What would he himself say two years after the wedding ? |
| 18 | Now just to clarify in my mind about , here I 'm looking at the summary of your submission , you actually refer to the fact that sixty three hectares are required to meet the needs of the city , whereas I take it you say this morning that you 're happy with the forty six , er but in reality you can only get thirty three ac thirty three hectares within the city . |
| 19 | I just like it when you open it it says happy birthday . |
| 20 | In it he said that man 's control over the world — steam , explosives , atoms and space — has outrun his power over himself to use that command wisely . |
| 21 | Last night Mr Heron , who works at G E Stiller Transport in Middleton St George , said : ‘ I shall repeat what I said 18 months ago . |
| 22 | We have experienced quite considerable out migration er in the period since , and we do build in perhaps slightly optimistic erm migration net migration figures compared to the er O P C S er and and D O E figures but they are nevertheless accepted as part of this forecast the regional guidance , on the basis that we have a major regeneration problem in the area , to reiterate what I said this morning . |
| 23 | Er finally I 'd like to reinforce what I said this morning about the strategic importance of a countryside protection policy . |
| 24 | No , from what I said this morning I meant not being there , without realising that |
| 25 | I meant what I said last night . |
| 26 | ‘ I did mean what I said last night , ’ she went on in a strangled whisper . |
| 27 | ‘ What I said last month was that the US Open was my final Grand Slam tournament . |
| 28 | It was in no way intense , and indeed coming from such a figure it could not help but appear a little maternal ; Mrs Hill did not seem to discover anything odd in her own attitude , and would consult Clara 's opinion without any attempts at subterfuge or bravado ; she would defer to Clara 's position in the class by outrageously open remarks such as " Now , Clara , you 're the only girl likely to remember what I said last week " , or " Well , I suppose I 'm wasting my breath on all but Clara Maugham . " |
| 29 | So , what I want to do is to er really repeat what I said last week but with a different emphasis . |
| 30 | It is what I said last time , it 's fiction . ’ |