Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which yeah I said well there 's nobody else , I said they get on and you say I want more money but he said it 's a nightmare . |
| 2 | Perhaps I ring up Irena and say you need more French ? |
| 3 | The police say they need more information from the public … particularly to find the murder weapon . |
| 4 | The police say they need more information from the public , particularly to find the murder weapon . |
| 5 | In fact , skin specialists say they see more patients who are suffering the effects of overdoing cleansing rather than because they have not cleansed enough . |
| 6 | And it is not enough to devote four pages to ‘ sexual orientation ’ and then lamely say it deserves more attention . |
| 7 | She says she needs more time , but we know she is lying . |
| 8 | He says they want more consultants to increase the work they do . |
| 9 | And I 'm sure you 've seen where the chief constable says he wants more bobbies on the beat , well perhaps this is a way to a to achieving that . |
| 10 | But Mr Harper says he needs more help . |
| 11 | Now he has been promoted and says he needs more time . |
| 12 | One delegation from Oxford City Council says it needs more cash to serve an extra thirteen thousand people whose homes now fall within the the city boundaries . |
| 13 | A support group for the elderly in north Oxfordshire says it wants more cooperation with the police in helping what it reckons is an increasing number of elderly victims of crime in the area . |
| 14 | They seem to say I spend more time with reptiles than I do with them or some people are very scared so they do n't tend to come around . |
| 15 | She said she wanted more freedom for licensees to decide their opening hours , and believed children would learn about alcohol by going into pubs with their parents . |
| 16 | ‘ My God , woman , you were the one who said we needed more space . ’ |
| 17 | Both Macca and Wilko said we have more points now than when we won the Championship . |
| 18 | Among the most striking of its findings were that all those surveyed said they had more confidence in statements on biotechnology made by environment and consumers ' groups than in those issuing from government or industry . |
| 19 | Er and then similarly to that they er were said to seek agreement by Lakehoff she said they used more questions and more tag questions . |
| 20 | Bosnian Muslims said they wanted more territory than had been offered under a proposed peace plan . |
| 21 | Now talking bout the Cosmo , I 'll come back to that again because there was a lad there and he was in the Independent Labour Party , and er his name was Eric and er this pamphlet will tell you said he answered more questions when he spoke , and at nineteen he was he spoke , he answered more questions than any other speaker had ever answered at the Cosmo you know he got a record for answering questions . |
| 22 | Harper said he lit more straw , put it out , then later smelled smoke . |