Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] [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 | They say it 's failing millions of people living in severe hardship . |
| 5 | Jim Lumb , who looks like John Cleese , says they 're having 18 ; William Hague says it 's 20 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I thought Val said he was having three days holiday ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |