Example sentences of "say [Wh adv] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I normally say how do you feel , but not in your case , |
| 2 | You say how do you know I was doing forty miles an hour ? |
| 3 | and write a letter for Duttons Road , enclose one of the tapes and say where do I go from here ? |
| 4 | Er very often Australian Aboriginal societies you meet men the corroborees at these ritual gatherings and if you 're one of the club , then in the ritual they 'll tell you , they 'll say hey , you know , you know you know you say where did you get all these kangaroos you know oh we got them over at the so and so ranges or down at the so and so water hole that 's where they all are this week , and this is very important information for man . |
| 5 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 6 | They say why do you have to talk about that just now . |
| 7 | The cause of it is evident enough : such a call on my brains merely ; and of my brains , only that portion which says one and one made three , says how do you do , says I will now dine . |
| 8 | I said course I know I said to put some of the carbons from the smoke back into the , into the er wrought iron , he says how did you find that out ? |
| 9 | eh brutal , er brute , er so many er only got a little bit more , eh sort of like you 've got er , I du n no , accent or something or add to it a few words , a few letters I mean , er a more I , a different accent you go to Manchester they said er different accent you go and so different one and to me from the beginning , not now , but from the beginning I was fascinate , I says why do they finish in Italian er ways , or add , you switch and them coins , erm , it still says |
| 10 | I mean there was , there was a wonderful Times cartoon , I do n't know if you saw it , of Yeltsin showing all the troubles he , he could n't control his government , there were economic problems , people were being nasty to him apparently as he was saying how do we manage and it turns out of course at the end , the final kick line is he 's talking about John Major 's situation . |
| 11 | Well the other thing you put on the end of that is after saying how do you feel about that , how would your wife feel about that . |
| 12 | Aye I heard him saying how do you put up with an arsehole like that ? |
| 13 | The next time I see you you 'll be saying why did I eat all that |
| 14 | ‘ It 's like saying why do you breathe ? ’ , he said . |
| 15 | no , er , I , I , I rather , I stopped you Mr yesterday morning when you were about to engage on a exercise of saying where do we go from here |
| 16 | I said how did she do it , did she , did Jane ever do it ? |
| 17 | I goes what ? , she said how did you loose it in there ? , |
| 18 | Right so what you said I said how do you spell sock S O C K but what you said was S H O C K. |
| 19 | I said How do you mean ? |
| 20 | And we had our hiccups and we had all sorts of you know difficult moments for all of us where we all had to face ourselves and You know I remember my little boy said , Oh Mum y what about my Christmas you know I was putting a lot of time into the the striker 's Christmas and he said how do you become a striker 's child ? |
| 21 | I said to the bloke I said how do you get out that junction ? |
| 22 | And she said how do you know Mrs she said to me . |
| 23 | Well it 's too hard , I said how do you know it 's too hard ? |
| 24 | Well when he , I said where do you get that from ? |
| 25 | I give Jim that bit of cheese he said where do you find this ? |
| 26 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 27 | I said where did you get it from ? |
| 28 | I said where did you get the tarmac from ? , been up London about , on his way to London by about half past four he said well there 's , there 's , three tarmac places , basically he people like that |
| 29 | She said I do n't know what your there 's a missing , so I it said Mr G , so dad said why does it say Mr and er , she said it 's a court order she said , court order , she said er that has been in the yard |
| 30 | Oh I ca n't tell you that I would n't never discuss things like that , until I got about twenty five , you know neighbours or not , and I said why did they call him ? |