Example sentences of "say [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock .
2 If , if you buy a p a new pair of shoes and realize they 're faulty and you go back the next day and say I bought these shoes from you yesterday , I 've still got my receipt , I believe the shoes are faulty , can I have my money back ?
3 Since then I I 've like say I missed ten Fridays yeah ?
4 But for instance , say we had two shunters , I had two shunters .
5 Police say they recorded 170 motorists driving through red traffic lights in York in just one month .
6 They say they paid premium prices to a firm with exclusive rights to sell holidays to the Olympics , but in return were given appalling accomodation .
7 They say he fought twenty men , including her brothers and her father , to win her . ’
8 It says its got 43 distributors worldwide and 150 major hardware and software vendors shipping or announcing availability of their products for UnixWare .
9 It says its had fewer visitors , and that in turn has led to a fall in essential income .
10 A LONE woman driver says she waited six hours to be rescued by the RAC when her car broke down on a motorway at night .
11 Melanie Simmonite says she started 20 years ago … her husband did it so it was a case of you ca n't beat them join them …
12 Boswell 's account says they rode two miles to the shore to find a herring-boat which would take them out to Raasay .
13 He says they got some men in a van and tried to burn them .
14 The officer says they found stolen chequebooks , 38 chequecards , and a quantity of drugs like LSD and cannabis , as well as other items such as computer equipment
15 The report says they found large numbers of chemicals being dumped which were NOT licensed to be discharged .
16 Two sons aged fifteen and four , and a daughter of one year old , were mentioned in the 1871 census , but A. W. Humphrey ( see below ) says he had five children to support .
17 MINTO : Paxford says the B set is easier ; Paxford says he got forty stations on it : he made it work beautifully .
18 Mr Tomlinson says he spent two months solidly working from 5.30am in the morning until 10.30 in the evening , including weekends .
19 He says he spent two weeks in hospital when he was helpless and that brought it all home to him .
20 The Department of Transport report says he made several errors while demonstrating a hover manoevre resulting in the crash .
21 The man who says he named both pieces of software is former 386BSD project leader and principal developer of BSD 2.8 and 2.9 , Bill Jolitz .
22 It says it rejected earlier offers of Fondiaria 's shares as too expensive .
23 A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) .
24 Are you saying you found illegal drugs on this property ? ’
25 ‘ I 'm not saying we became best buddies because we never did , ’ says Penny .
26 HDS declined to specify its installed X-terminal base , saying it had 200,000 units in the field , most of them serial terminals .
27 and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult !
28 I said I had three kids and I could
29 And she said ooh she said I got two grandads .
30 She said I got fat fingers that 'll do .
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