Example sentences of "[verb] say [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freud might have said her emotional life was frozen , like the Alps . |
| 2 | Though he could n't have said what that purpose might be . |
| 3 | I thought she might have said something last year cos I was leaving . |
| 4 | I 'm trying to explain to you that there was a different atmosphere about it , the whole situation , I know they were hard times , I know that some people had some really rough times but it did n't show very much , and when I come to think of all my parents ' friends I do n't remember anybody having a wife bashing episode or they all seemed to be very contented with their lot somehow except one , and that was a little bit dicey when I was a little kid , but the man died and the Observer the next week the er obituary notice was put in the paper and underneath they 'd got , with Christ which is far better and my father said and they she could n't have said anything better words |
| 5 | Every time a Jew remembers to say his daily prayers , they feel the Messiah come a step nearer . |
| 6 | I like this girl , cos she 's Welsh , just , I ca n't do her accent , but she kept saying it several times , he was getting really pissed off with her . |
| 7 | I kept saying my own name so I would n't forget it . |
| 8 | ‘ Never , though he did say his local picture house was the Pavilion and I know his mother took her loaves to be baked at a place called Jimmy McFadden 's bakery , but they 're not in the phone book , either of them . |
| 9 | Lewis knew , yes ; but he waited a little , nodding his sympathy to a woman who , for the moment , had said her immediate say . |
| 10 | The men were going to be surprised , of course , because she had said her last goodbye on Friday . |
| 11 | Robyn screwed up her brow and tried to remember what he had said his other name was . |
| 12 | When I spoke to his assistant she told he had said his last word on the subject and did not want to hear of it again . |
| 13 | ‘ If you go for a soldier ’ — she had said it fifty times — it will stop us getting wed . |
| 14 | He had said it several times before and we had stopped believing him . |
| 15 | When they 're not watching TV — 99 per cent admitted watching the box every night — over half those questioned said their only exercise was to take the occasional stroll . |
| 16 | As the House knows , because I have said it several times in business questions , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has said that the establishment of a Northern Ireland Select Committee is best taken forward in the context of the fresh political talks . |
| 17 | He refused to say what that procedure might be , but confirmed it required the permission of Lothian Regional Council . |
| 18 | At this point we need to say what spiritual direction is not . |