Example sentences of "[vb past] say [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I kept saying my own name so I would n't forget it . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Lewis knew , yes ; but he waited a little , nodding his sympathy to a woman who , for the moment , had said her immediate say . |
| 5 | The men were going to be surprised , of course , because she had said her last goodbye on Friday . |
| 6 | Robyn screwed up her brow and tried to remember what he had said his other name was . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ If you go for a soldier ’ — she had said it fifty times — it will stop us getting wed . |
| 9 | He had said it several times before and we had stopped believing him . |
| 10 | He refused to say what that procedure might be , but confirmed it required the permission of Lothian Regional Council . |