Example sentences of "say [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | German firms say their only hope of staying competitive is to cut production , and are seeking co-operation among themselves to do this in the the most effective way . |
| 4 | They talked of hereditary occupations in the Highlands ; the rigour of church rules and creeds ; they looked at Latin books , and tiptoed around a delicate matter — whether Johnson the Anglican might wish to hear Mr MacAulay say their Presbyterian prayers in the household , which Boswell doubted . |
| 5 | His division is a big supplier of factory painting machinery , particularly to car manufacturers , German customers — including Volkswagen , GM/Opel and Ford — have slowed investment ; managers there say their heavy involvement in eastern Europe is draining funds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Toni , lead singer with Curve , grew up in Washington and says her eight years in the area helped shape her personality . |
| 8 | Goldman Sachs says its private-placement business in Europe has doubled every year for the past few years . |
| 9 | He says its all part of the debate about the NHS reform and priorities . |
| 10 | NEC says its new focus on the business market instead of the scientific and engineering market is down to the 36% growth in the latter market . |
| 11 | NEC says its new focus on the business market instead of the scientific and engineering market is down to the 36% growth in the latter market . |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp says its NT-based version of SQL Server will ship in the third quarter with full multi-processor support ; SNA server gateway will arrive at the same time , while products from its Hermes network management technology effort , will appear in the fourth quarter . |
| 13 | Sequent says its multiprocessing implementation of NT will deliver linear performance increases as the CPU count rises . |
| 14 | However , Microsoft says its projected sales of one million copies of NT the first twelve months it 's out are not highly dependent on Pentium . |
| 15 | Microsoft Corp says its projected sales of 1m copies of NT the first 12 months of sales are not highly dependent on Pentium . |
| 16 | The men were going to be surprised , of course , because she had said her last goodbye on Friday . |
| 17 | He says you crafty pair of sods he says , Sarah knew all about that did n't she ? |
| 18 | He says his only reason for deciding to kill Caesar was that he had committed himself to help the general public . |
| 19 | Newton says his successful rapport with Chelsea supporters is itself a triumph in the light of recent history . |
| 20 | David , who 's still recovering from a knee injury , says his brief experience of disability has helped him appreciate what others go through . |
| 21 | As the House knows , because I have said it several times in business questions , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has said that the establishment of a Northern Ireland Select Committee is best taken forward in the context of the fresh political talks . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | People who have n't said anything this lesson From I did run the history department , that main speech there . |
| 24 | saying they all flower in the summer |
| 25 | 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 ! |
| 26 | THE American film maker Woody Allen once said his one regret in life was that he was n't somebody else . |
| 27 | oh that 's the way we did it and we got it something off , this guy also said which some auctioneers like who are highly recognized |
| 28 | Fewer visitors there may have been , but those who did make it from Ireland said their traditional farewell to the town 's Queen 's Hotel last night . |
| 29 | They visited the chapel on the north side and said their final farewell to their parents . |
| 30 | When Mrs Currie said her famous one-liner about eggs and salmonella , the egg consumption in this country plummeted by an incredible 30% , more or less overnight , and she achieved far more by that sentence than the entire medical profession had achieved in 20 years . |