Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [was/were] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only then you say you were the person who telephoned . |
| 2 | Others say it was the shortage of pubs , shops , churches , transport and police stations . |
| 3 | Say it was the beginning of a feeling that you would like me . |
| 4 | Some say it was the importing of whole streets of fighting families from the fishquays , with their dockland diversions of prostitution , drug-dealing and handling . |
| 5 | The bone itself is probably the ilium , one of the bones in the toad or frog 's pelvic girdle : some say it was the breast bone . |
| 6 | He would confess all , go on his knees , say he was the Prince 's slave , buy him expensive presents … |
| 7 | I mean , I can remember him on this , er on this bike and then he rose to be a manager and er as he was , I say he was the manager fo er magistrate up until he retired last year . |
| 8 | But the story goes way off-beam when it says I was the guy started the shooting . |
| 9 | The prosecution says he was the driver of the Renault 25 . |
| 10 | Gregory says he was the son of a slave and that he came to prominence in the household of king Charibert , whence he was promoted to being comes of Tours . |
| 11 | Barry Lloyd , who set up the Gulf Families Association , and still counsels soldiers and their families , says he was the victim of a smear campaign . |
| 12 | He says he was the victim of medical negligence twenty five years ago at Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmay when an unecessary operation is said to have left him severely disabled . |
| 13 | ‘ The chairman of the bench denies falling asleep and says it was the way he was sitting in his chair , ’ he said . |
| 14 | His best friend says it was the way he would have wanted to go |
| 15 | But she says it was the tiredness she was unprepared for . |
| 16 | Vicky told me : ‘ Laurence says it was the bottle that first got Frank into diffs . |
| 17 | Desmond says it was the woman he lives with — is n't it awful , at his age ! — who really suggested there should be a get-together . |
| 18 | Bob Howe , Bus Driver , says it was the bus company 's way of saying thank you to the children for their good behaviour . |
| 19 | If I was a cynical person , which you all know that I am not , I would have said it was the Government 's intention to help lawyers make more money out of the Act . |
| 20 | It was with interest that I read Audrey Haagensen 's letter in the September issue of The Artist , saying she was the owner of a 1938 edition of your magazine . |
| 21 | I remember an old friend saying it was the rape of Russia 's heritage . ’ |
| 22 | The Commander was fond of saying it was the sea on which the Spanish Armada had been defeated , the sea that Adolf Hitler had not dared to cross . |
| 23 | First of all they said she was the villain . |
| 24 | He put it in a nutshell when he said she was the sort of girl who , if there had been a meadow handy , would have been out there in a flash picking cowslips . |
| 25 | Mr Morton goes on to say it was the Queen who persuaded her not to try to end her marriage and to accompany her husband on their official visit to South Korea . |
| 26 | ‘ She said it was the way Miss Harker looked at her when she thought she was nothing . |
| 27 | Mr Sugar said it was the machine 's ability to recognise handwriting that set it ‘ worlds apart ’ from technology already available . |
| 28 | He said it was the government 's intention to privatize 30-40 per cent of state assets and he asked for a six-month moratorium on trade union pay demands . |
| 29 | The opposition said it was the work of SAVAK , the secret police . |
| 30 | Police sources said it was the detonator — with a small package of Semtex at its core — which failed to ignite and set off the bags of nitrate-based fertiliser which were packed into the rear of the van . |