Example sentences of "[pers pn] say [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean sometimes you expect him to laugh and he does n't laugh like he says something funny and I say something funny back to him , but he does n't laugh . |
| 2 | Oh , I say you poor thing . |
| 3 | I said to him this morning I said what sick joke 's this ? |
| 4 | if I said his upper lip trembled like the lip |
| 5 | I said you dizzy swine ! |
| 6 | And I knew I know this bloke eh , when he was a sergeant I think , anyway he was an officer , and eh , said we go to Sheppeards , I said you silly devil I ca n't get into Sheppeards Hotel I 'm a signal man I had to laugh he said , shame , he said cor , you 're about my size , get stuck into one of my uniforms we had a couple of weekends at Sheppeards Hotel , we had a great time . |
| 7 | And er there r there are no real er gentry in Orkney you see , and you 'll always find that if anybody gets a a a Well as I said to one boy here , I said to him look here I said your old grandfather worked in that shop till his backside was hanging out his brigs . |
| 8 | I said your fucking fault . |
| 9 | That morning my wife and I said our usual goodbyes . |
| 10 | She says her ultimate ambition is to get that published too . |
| 11 | As her prize Trudie receives three thousand five hundred pounds but she says her real reward has been the satisfaction of knowing her efforts have helped others . |
| 12 | She says her only daughter was killed . |
| 13 | Aminah Husain Sumpton , a freelance trainer and guardian ad litem , welcomed the Children Act but she said its full potential had not been achieved . |
| 14 | Oh she said I 'm ever so sorry I was miles away , I said yeah we 've just said that , I said you never even heard us , so I said what you , you ca n't understand why you pay too much tax , she said no I know why I pay too much tax she said but more she said I used to be in business she said and I 'm on basic rate of tax , so I said yeah I 've had some of that , so she said what basic rate of tax , I said yeah where I 've come so , it 's a funny thing she said , I was saying to Carol the other day , she said erm , she said what a difference them blokes you work with , so I said yeah , I said I 'm always saying that about these so she said oh she said er |
| 15 | A MURDER trial was adjourned last night after one of the accused broke down in the witness box as she said her fellow defendant had suggested using shovels to bury a woman alive . |
| 16 | She said her other sons Philip , five and Liam , three , also suffered health problems . |
| 17 | She said her only hope of having the boys returned was if her husband had difficulty in looking after them . |
| 18 | I saw the bits coming off her fag She said you stupid bastard well he was like this were n't he ? |
| 19 | She said you dirty animal fucking git ! |
| 20 | I would like to write to you to say what excellent service we are receiving with our sanitary unit collection . |
| 21 | ‘ What did you say your inside leg measurement is ? ’ |
| 22 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 23 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 24 | So we say its average speed is fifty miles per hour . |
| 25 | Cos we said them young kids that had the trumpets for that thing , I bet she had a go at them and all not to knacker them . |
| 26 | The following morning , under the guidance of Margo , Nigel was sprinkled onto the compost heap and we said our final goodbyes . |
| 27 | We said our good nights . |
| 28 | ‘ The trouble is , the music industry today is so sad and pathetic that if Bob Dylan started a career today , he 'd be deemed a Woodie Guthrie wannabe , instead of them saying what amazing songs he 's written . |
| 29 | But they say their real reward is knowing they 've helped to save lives . |
| 30 | They say their new ball is aimed mainly at the middle and high handicapper and , though nice and soft on the clubface , actually spins less because of the larger dimpling on the Zylin cover . |