Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say I know say I know the order was high for today on drums . |
| 2 | Mind you , I still say I like the reds . |
| 3 | Now when did the I suppose the credit card they brought but as to what you say I mean the , these , these repossessions it 's not the fact they ca n't afford the mortgage . |
| 4 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that I might marry him . |
| 5 | They say I had the vanity to go down to Croisset and make an embarrassing scene on his doorstep . |
| 6 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that he and I might one day share the authorship of some literary work . |
| 7 | I say I saw the very first film of it |
| 8 | So I take my time , not asking if he wants Cellophane gift-wrapping but just doing it really slowly and then I say I done the VAT wrong . |
| 9 | ‘ Because of that , the superstitious say I met the fairies and went to live with them for nine years . |
| 10 | . So the nest day I s As I say I slammed the phone down |
| 11 | Er and er I say I signed the pledge never to touch intoxicating liquors , which I kept for until I was thirty five . |
| 12 | She belongs to the South ; some say she personifies the best of it . |
| 13 | Her friends say she did the right thing . |
| 14 | And if you say you did the same thing , they just think , oh my God , look at this girl being really rude . |
| 15 | ‘ In the Bolshoi people say you need the teeth of a tiger and the hide of a dinosaur to survive , ’ Semenyaka laughs , rather hollowly . |
| 16 | Rather than so As I say you associate the car and the number together . |
| 17 | So say we put the people into pairs into sets of two . |
| 18 | I remember David started crying but Ralph would not back down and say we deserved the money , or to have some of it , so we just left them at the Brummel Club before doing their thing . |
| 19 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 20 | And as I say we did the mass picket down in Inspector was coming straight up t an the Sergeant to y you know what 's like to leading er people and he said , Now what 's the what you going to do what 's what you want this morning ? |
| 21 | Which is why I say we run the trainer trainer 's course . |
| 22 | This is most usually expressed by means of a subordinate adverbial clause , with although , however , even so , etc : Although we won the war , some say we lost the peace . |
| 23 | that 's why I say we want the carpets cleaning |
| 24 | So when we say we want the laws of physics perhaps to stay constant in time , when we observe these objects a long way away we 're observing the laws of physics as they were a long time ago . |
| 25 | The Police say they back the idea . |
| 26 | While there is no evidence that conventionally grown fruit and vegetables produced under approved conditions are harmful , some people feel happier to subscribe to the organic philosophy , and many people say they prefer the flavour of organic food to that of conventionally grown food . |
| 27 | The makers of Lamisil , Sandoz Pharmaceuticals of Surrey say they tested the drug for 5 years before using it on humans . |
| 28 | They say they like the sound of singing , which gives them a bit of a boost at the beginning of the day . ’ |
| 29 | We 've had tons of letters — you know the sort of thing : people who say they knew the originals of the characters in Cotton Town , people who say he said ‘ bobbin-waggler ’ when he should have said ‘ throcket-shuttle ’ . |
| 30 | On a promotional video interview , they say they consulted the ancient Chinese book the I-Ching to make this choice , but when I bring it up Kier gives another reason . |