Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [be] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the police say you were doing forty miles an hour . |
| 2 | Lead-free petrol is bad for your car 's health , according to motor mechanics who say they 're repairing dozens of cars which have been damaged by it . |
| 3 | Somerset police investigating the death say they are questioning two men . |
| 4 | ( WES ) But those who 've worked with conductive education say it 's helped hundreds of families , and that the research on which the report is based is flawed . |
| 5 | They say it 's failing millions of people living in severe hardship . |
| 6 | He says we were told one of them was very badly deformed — but we were never told why — I wondered if that was put down to the tests . |
| 7 | Jim Lumb , who looks like John Cleese , says they 're having 18 ; William Hague says it 's 20 . |
| 8 | The man who was injured says he 's lost thousands of pounds and has n't worked since . |
| 9 | Mr Miah says he 's spent four thousand pounds revamping his restaurant . |
| 10 | DG claims significant demand for its top-end 4 and 8-way Motorola 88100 servers , and says it is selling one of its CLARiiON RAID disc storage sub-systems with just about every 8-way machine that goes out the door . |
| 11 | Can I just make one point Ken , cos you were saying they 're getting thirty odd million of er of a request of two hundred million . |
| 12 | ‘ We are not trying to rip people off and planned to put a sticker on the records saying they were recorded 10 years ago . |
| 13 | THE GOVERNMENT admitted yesterday that its pollution inspectorate lacked almost a quarter of its quota of professional inspectors , nine months after saying it was recruiting 13 extra staff , writes Nicholas Schoon . |
| 14 | Yeah , but she said I were called one night I went with her daughter-in-law |
| 15 | ‘ I checked with Betty this morning as to whether you 'd be in and she said you were making one of your special cakes , so I guessed you would ask the girls up to tea . |
| 16 | The cold war may be over and dead , but spooks still rule OK — the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned more than 70 US defence , aerospace and financial companies that their industrial secrets are targets of French intelligence agents and diplomats , Defense Week reports , adding that the warning has caused Hughes Aircraft Co to drop plans to exhibit aerospace equipment at the Paris Air Show in June ; a 21-page French government document from about 1990 outlines US aerospace and defence corporate secrets in which French companies are interested , US officials say ; according to the Washington Post , Hughes officials said they were told one item the French memo lists is Hughes ' HS601 communications satellite ; French firms recently outbid Hughes to provide $258m in communications birds to Arab lands . |
| 17 | He said he was getting three different sets of advice ; to stay and " tough it out " to retire to a naval base and let the Army put down the people in his absence , or to leave . |
| 18 | I thought Val said he was having three days holiday ? |
| 19 | Now we need to look at one lot of something in brackets add another lot , well let's , let's forget about the first one being in brackets , let's say we 're doing ten take away six . |
| 20 | So here 's a graph and we 'll say the distance let's see the distance is equal to erm a constant speed let's say he 's doing sixty miles an hour . |
| 21 | We 're talking about how much of the client 's premium , let's say he was paying thirty pounds a month , actually ends buying units in his fund . |