Example sentences of "[pers pn] say it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As I say it 's all got ta be subject to you negotiate with him |
2 | I said it looks nice as it is and I do n't know if he will or not , I forgot to ask him on the phone . |
3 | I said it 's no good asking my opinion I said it looks alright to me . |
4 | Well you say it ignores several local plan policies . |
5 | She says it seems unfair that she 's not being evicted but Mrs Hurd is . |
6 | And erm not only er do I think that er she 'll probably be reasonably good with , with finals I 'm absolutely sure that her course reports from , you know , all the places where she 's been will be better than most of the other candidates , you know , because she brings home these , the these reports , you know , and she says it looks alright , you know , beginning of the course Nurse is lacking in this or has not got that or is not , you know , you think mm pretty the end of the course Nurse got the hang of , is very good , has done this , has done that , has supported this and you think mm pretty , well that 's lovely you know but she did n't have the experience during the whatever , she had been given the experience and the end of it brilliant |
7 | I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ? |
8 | You said it got old . ’ |
9 | You said it runs all the time . |
10 | Would you say it had enough bottle age ? |
11 | ‘ They say it gets easier , ’ Jill grinned . |
12 | They say it gets cold at those altitudes . |
13 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
14 | They say it likes chalky uplands … ’ |
15 | Anyhow , they say it beats nose-picking and nail-biting — yes , you 're ahead of me — hands down ! |
16 | They say it shows little respect for the environment and have managed to pursuade council officials to consider putting preservation orders on the remaining trees . |
17 | They say it contains eight per cent alcohol , and the locals down it by the gallon . |
18 | ‘ They said it looks OK but they 've towed it off somewhere to search for clues . |
19 | Coming off the combine at 15% moisture , he says it looked good . |
20 | ‘ He says it sounds exciting . |
21 | He says it helps those who are interested in bikes , and prevents them straying into crime . |
22 | And he says it took all his strength to make the journey from church to job centre . |
23 | he says it looks nice as well |
24 | He says it has good networks for communication and is very attractive for business . |
25 | He says It has all the ingredients that kids want jeopardy , death and destruction but it also has people saving lives and so the parents like it and that is why it has been so popular . |
26 | But he says it has some stiff competition from a consortium of Eastern universities and industry . |
27 | It says it rejected earlier offers of Fondiaria 's shares as too expensive . |
28 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |
29 | It says it has 100 orders for the systems , nine models of the HP 3000 and HP 9000 lines ; a handful of the new 3000s went out in August ; the first 9000s should be shipping this month . |
30 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |