Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [was/were] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People say they were the good old days , but oh I do n't think . |
| 2 | What we do is take the , the day of the week and the , the calendar date , it might be the say it was the fourth day of the week Thursday |
| 3 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 4 | Kee looked at Karen and said quietly , ‘ Some people say he was the strongest houngan of all , the houngan we call Baron Samedi . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've always said you were the best blacksmith I ever had . ’ |
| 6 | Pliny names Archermos in a family of Chiot sculptors , and another writer says he was the first to give Nike wings . |
| 7 | I just turned round and says mine was the cheapest price anyway ! |
| 8 | Vet , Neil Forbes says it was the worse case of starvation he 's ever seen . |
| 9 | But his lawyer says it was the wrong verdict and the wrong charge . |
| 10 | He says it was the worst day . |
| 11 | I 'm not saying we were the first , bloody hell , it sounded dated when we did it . |
| 12 | Sid Field asked whether dead ones were accepted and John Stanley sent in a Bob Dylan song , saying he was the only ‘ modern whose lyrics I coul get my hands on without going back to the Bard , and I thought that was n't what you wanted ’ . |
| 13 | A week later Adam got a letter saying he was the sole beneficiary under the will of his late great-uncle . |
| 14 | We 've had lots of letters saying it was the worst thing we 've ever done . |
| 15 | I thought I was the only one to satisfy you ; you told me that once ; you said I was the only one who had ever made you — ’ |
| 16 | John Heminges said I was the best properties man in the city . |
| 17 | But the managers I played for all said I was the best professional . |
| 18 | He said I was the healthiest ghost he 'd ever seen ! |
| 19 | ‘ Well , actually , Sam said I was the same height as him now and he happened to have two . |
| 20 | I laughed and said I was the same when I was young . |
| 21 | Dougald said his was the only party firmly committed to improving schools throughout Britain . |
| 22 | Everybody said you were the best . |
| 23 | ‘ He always said you were the whole brains of the column . |
| 24 | ‘ She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls . |
| 25 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |
| 26 | He said they were the self-indulgent ramblings of a patches-on-the-elbow peasant , and who the hell did he think he was anyway ? |
| 27 | So some bright spark produced small tasty jam-filled doughnuts and said THEY were the missing holes . |
| 28 | I said they were the last pair of my nylons , memorial to my relationship with Blanche . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't believe what 's happened today , but I have to say it was the best 45 minutes I 've had since coming back , ’ he smiled . |
| 30 | She used to say it was the best thing in the house . |