Example sentences of "say [pron] [be] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Say I 'm from the Ministry of Justice . ’
2 Like you say you 're at the mercy .
3 because you 've past it so it that 's it , so , when you were here , when you , when you , say you 're in the ship ,
4 ‘ Last night , when you say you were on the Wheel with him ? ’
5 They say they are from the People 's Liberation Army .
6 Say it 's for the snapper . ’
7 They say it 's in the wrong place .
8 Again as you say it 's in the middle of nowhere in n it ?
9 I say it was on the cards because throughout the match the Scousers used the tactic of playing the long ball towards Rush and it was then quite simply a one-on-one race with either Fairclough or Newsome .
10 Unless they say he 's on the bottle .
11 Then at the bottom of the page erm , he says I am in the history department and he says I shall probably tell you several more times and indeed he does in the play .
12 Stewart from Tamworth says I 'm on the dole and have to pay maintenance , Prince Charles should be doing the same .
13 I says yeah I says I 'm in the same boat .
14 ‘ She says she 's in the garden ! ’ he thought .
15 " Some woman says she 's from the paper .
16 He says you 're at the mercy of the elements and you just go where the weather takes you .
17 They just stopped him from choking the life out of bobby Carter because he had said everybody was for the war : if we did n't show them Russians what was what , who would ?
18 I 'VE heard of prisoners going on the run to prove their innocence , but here 's a prisoner who says he 's on the run to prove his GUILT .
19 The singer Frankie Vaughan says he 's on the mend , but lucky to be alive after a two-hour emergency operation .
20 I says he 's in the Army .
21 Pausanias says he is on the god 's left , and I conclude that he is using the words from the spectator 's point of view , as I believe he does in his account of Polygnotos 's paintings at Delphi .
22 ‘ I 'm sorry to disturb you , Mr Varna , but I have a Mr O'Neill here who says he is from the British and Cosmopolitan Assurance Company .
23 Speaking for himself , Svidrigailov says he is after the women , which is n't untrue but we know what it 's worth .
24 Speaking on Central News last year , he says he was in the flat when the fight broke out between Mills and Wiltshire .
25 The local authority says it 's against the idea and has taken the property off the market .
26 ‘ It says it 's from the Editor . ’
27 ‘ Oh , it says it 's from the Editor .
28 Erm , on this paper I just wanted to ask you , erm , Simon says it 's from the erm , American agency , how many jobs , I , I would really like to know how much we spend , or how much is spent on trying to achieve jobs from American , from companies in America , and erm , how many jobs have been created ?
29 The Chief Prisons Inspector Judge Stephen Tumim says it 's among the worst prison accommodation he 's seen .
30 Well that 's what it says it is on the erm on the outside .
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