Example sentences of "say [pers pn] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock .
2 anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor
3 If I say I have enough clothes , I have enough clothes , ’ she finished .
4 Although , like Asterix , he attributed his phenomenal prowess partly to a magic potion , ‘ Superjuice ’ , concocted by his druidical sponsors , Body Ammo , he did n't really need it : ‘ They say I have three balls — I need an outlet for that extra energy . ’
5 Well she smokes Lambert and Butlers and as I say she had one fag left and she said I have to keep that for Norm .
6 Now the authorities say she has little chance of getting them back .
7 As I said before a bus was on a certain route number , say you had one Witton what was had now and then , well that that ran from six o'clock in the morning perhaps till eleven o'clock at night .
8 Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles .
9 But for instance , say we had two shunters , I had two shunters .
10 The workers say they 've little chance of getting another job .
11 It may have been costly , but those in charge say they had little choice .
12 We are part way through a randomised multi-centre control trial of rehabilitation and the majority of physicians collaborating say they have insufficient time to review all their patients after discharge , after this aggressive therapy of 3 or 4 days in hospital .
13 Neither the family of Kingsley Sam nor the police say they have any idea why he was shot .
14 Marje says : ‘ I think I 'm not so different from my readers , who write and say they have brutal husbands , and how they are beaten night after night by drunken swine who abuse them in every way and yet they still go on living with them .
15 According to a survey carried out by Brylcreem , 43% of British men say they have sensitive skin .
16 German prosecutors say they have enough information to investigate GM 's complaints that Mr Lopez , and other senior executives who defected , took secret documents with them to VW .
17 She says she has 17 kids like this right now .
18 ‘ It does n't mean a damn thing when he says we have low interest rates .
19 She says we have devious minds !
20 He says we have strict rules and regulations and the flying safety committee make sure they 're administered .
21 He says they 've other towns to look at .
22 Says they 've enough food .
23 He says they have 2 kinds of bite : a ’ go away ’ bite and the bite they give when they think you 're food .
24 He says they have 81 families waiting to move into service accomodation .
25 The Russians have said they have 50,000 tons .
26 Two sons aged fifteen and four , and a daughter of one year old , were mentioned in the 1871 census , but A. W. Humphrey ( see below ) says he had five children to support .
27 Terry B says he had some treatment and lots of help from friends … he goes to meetings every week and he 's enjoying life and taking one day at a time … he 's had one innings and is now enjoying his second
28 He says he has good relations with the police . ’
29 She says he has amazing hands , whatever that might mean . ’
30 He says he has some sympathy with retailers , but at the end of the day it 's up to them to check on the authenticity of the goods they 're selling .
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