Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] say [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gorbachev reportedly offered to resign at Saturday 's meeting after Kemerevo party chief Alexander Melnikov ‘ really let himself get carried away and said something like this : ‘ Is it proper to go bowing to the capitalists ? to go asking a blessing from the Pope ? ’ ' according to a conservative Central Committee member . |
| 2 | I moved away and said it was too hot . |
| 3 | She should have rung immediately and said there was a question mark . |
| 4 | And I know it 's very easy for me to stand here and say you know try to keep calm and polite and reasonable . |
| 5 | Mrs Patient of Bracknell , Berks , said : ‘ I could n't believe that it took four of them to stand there and say they could n't do the work until after the New Year . |
| 6 | Today at the fringe meeting where seventy odd people attended , I 've been inundated by people who 've come forward and said we wan na raise it , we wan na put instructions on the machines that dispense these . |
| 7 | With that she got up , put her knitting away and said she would go with me as far as our house . |
| 8 | yes , and a , she 's phoned tonight and said she had n't arranged anything yet , but it 's in hand . |
| 9 | Neil poor boy he had a driving lesson yesterday came home and said I do n't want to do any more ! |
| 10 | Why do people not just speak directly and say what they mean ? |
| 11 | She was standing by Shelley , listening intently but saying nothing . |
| 12 | She recollected fast and said there had been a development in the case during the evening . |
| 13 | What I think my colleague is saying is that when the actuary is assessing the commitments of the funds , he is looking at the anticipated increased earnings until the person retires and I think when the calculation is made for somebody who is er a deferred pensioner of leaving er a pension fund to take his money elsewhere a similar calculation or the same calculation should be used , the one that the actuary last used in , in looking forward and saying what the commitments are . |
| 14 | And for some veteran or novice rower , they 'll be able to go home and say they 've just rowed with an Olympic gold medallist . |
| 15 | Juliet looked at David , who nodded slowly but said nothing . |
| 16 | It 's almost mesmeric as well is n't it , this repetition of now , now , now between between the but as as you were saying , it 's sketching all the details in so you , if you were sketching a fox , you know you begin somewhere and say you begin with the nose you 've just got a little detail the nose and the eyes but eventually you 've got to put the whole sketch in . |
| 17 | Natasha sighed audibly and said nothing for so long Charlotte thought she had walked away from the telephone . |
| 18 | He turned slightly and said something to her . |
| 19 | She breathed hard but said nothing . |
| 20 | DES WALKER … has settled well and says he would like to spend the rest of his footballing life in Italy |
| 21 | My daughter rang today and said they 're calling her Lily , after me . ’ |
| 22 | Blanche listened politely but said nothing , so Dexter felt obliged to respond to Blufton 's patter . |
| 23 | If they go away and say I 'll be back Buzz I 'll be back . |
| 24 | Erm , and I would have gone home and said I 'm sorry darling , a major client ca n't afford to pay these people , and so on and so forth . |
| 25 | Smith would go further and say it results in ‘ tunnel vision ’ and a loss of grasp on sense . |
| 26 | We all embrace touchingly and say our farewells . |
| 27 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 28 | The children laughed silently and said nothing . |
| 29 | Peckle grumbled about the treatment due to envoys but the good physician , Throgmorton , laughed sourly and said he was pleased to be as far away from the Frogs as possible . |
| 30 | You come to see me and sit there and say nowt . |