Example sentences of "[pers pn] say [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well this chap says there 's er , oh he says how much is , he said oh he says , nine by one pound , pound a foot , I said good grief pound a foot , so I mean start talking about six by threes |
| 2 | I mean I said to her today I mean there was this costume there and I said here get that one there I said french maid outfit , nurse 's outfit . |
| 3 | The other sizeable group of offences reported on is where the case involves someone well known ( e.g. Bronski pop man fined for sex offence or more frequently there is either fame by association ( e.g. GAY-SEX SHAME OF ESTHER 'S ‘ BROTHER' , where the inverted commas in the headline indicate the rather more tenuous link with television star Esther Rantzen than the headline immediately suggests ) , or the actor who was said to make £12,000 a year from impersonating Prince Charles , or someone who sounds from the headline to be well known ( e.g. CASTRATE ME SAYS GAY OPERA SINGER : He preyed on children . |
| 4 | Have you said good morning Jim ? |
| 5 | She said future Government strategy would include continuing to target sections of the population at particular risk , including homosexual and bisexual men and drug users . |
| 6 | Well , when we say horrifying car crash what we really mean is that one of the two cars got a puncture and the other vehicle bashed into the back of them but you never know , it could have been worse . |
| 7 | ‘ They say Eastern Province rugby is tough but , hell , this is different . |
| 8 | They say cheap beer imports are hitting the government 's pocket and they want beer taxes here to be frozen . |
| 9 | so that they are fully trained and ready to handle the problems that might arise erm there is , however , cause for some er optimism and I refer specifically to the recreational page from the Estuaries Consultation Document from English Nature and in one of their er proposals and objectives they say encouraging self regulation and observance of Code of Practice by local clubs and groups to avoid clon conflict with and or disturbance to other users including nature conservation interests . |
| 10 | They say National starter Captain Keith Brown should take some share of the blame for the abandoned race . |
| 11 | Old when they say old antiquarian books |
| 12 | They say so-called home improvements can kill off the tourist trade . |
| 13 | He says full government sponsorship would not be ‘ flexible ’ enough ; the ideal partnership would be with a waste management company . |
| 14 | Neil Kinnock agrees ; he says high mortgage rates and the poll tax are bound to push up inflation rates even more . |
| 15 | He says Tory hardman Norman Tebbit was ‘ roughed up quite a few times ’ by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 16 | Oh yeah it says allotted parking space . |
| 17 | It says absolute south bank |
| 18 | yes , and then it says ordinary management services |
| 19 | It says cross channel shoppers importing cheap beer from France are already costing British off licences and supermarkets nearly five hundred million pounds a year . |
| 20 | He said Russian president Boris Yeltsin had failed to come up with new ideas and had put politics above the national interest . |
| 21 | He said other Budget changes would affect only the rich and yet would increase the RPI and so benefits based on the RPI would be raised . |
| 22 | And this is supported by recently-appointed Employment Minister David Hunt 's statement in which he said British Government backing is unconditional . |
| 23 | The wooden crosses he said broke church regulations . |
| 24 | He said self-run hospital trusts have become ‘ Frankenstein 's monsters ’ . |
| 25 | He said fresh water pumping stations had been knocked out but powerful temporary pumps were brought in and there was ‘ no cause for alarm ’ about the safety of drinking water . |