Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [was/were] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drugs were also seized and police say it was part of a long term campaign , codenamed Operation Lucy and targeted on a guns and drug network . |
| 2 | They used to used to go up this , as you say it was part of the erm holiday , used to go up this mountain , driven up this mountain then they 'd toboggan down . |
| 3 | They also say it was government research which slipped back the most between 1973 and 1981 and that industry needs to be allowed to make profits before upping R&D . |
| 4 | Say it was sewage farms that 's |
| 5 | Oh ask John say it was ages ago |
| 6 | Say it was night for instance . |
| 7 | They say it was Quatro Flats . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You still say it was murder ? ’ |
| 9 | The assassins had never been traced , and the British authorities had said they were Sinn Feiners ; it was a stupid accusation , for MacCurtain had been a staunch Republican himself , so nobody had any doubt that the killers were Black and Tans . |
| 10 | Then she 'd said they were sisters . |
| 11 | quid but the bloke who owns them he 's near said they were sort of a couple of hundred or three hundred nicked or something and he put the load in at twenty two thousand quid ! |
| 12 | He says it was coincidence that all these Mr Nasty roles came at once , but admits that for a while , playing a succession of evil characters had a rather bad effect on his personal life . |
| 13 | Bradman says it was Fingleton , Fingleton said it was Bradman , and Leo O'Brien ( the 12th man ) further confused the issue by revealing in a recent interview with Wisden Cricket Monthly that neither Bradman nor Fingleton was in the room at the time of the exchange , but ( former Australian Test players ) Ryder and Kippax , who were both reporting the matches in one way or another , were . ’ |
| 14 | You says it was inflammation of the nerves in the |
| 15 | Matthew Pinsent says it was Cambridge 's race … |
| 16 | Jim Magilton is the second Liverpool reserves player to join the U's , after the signing of John Durning three years ago , and he says it was Brian Horton 's enthusiasm that had tice that enticed him away from the Merseyside side . |
| 17 | But the prosecution says it was murder , and the crime WAS planned . |
| 18 | Well somebody 's been he says , I says it were Linda , I says with little'un , I says you give it young'un , he says I did did n't I ? |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd have said it was Sunday morning if you want it right . ’ |
| 20 | I mean if it ha if somebody had said it was Danny from the Tri-Club I would have had a |
| 21 | The Farmers ' Union of Wales had said it was fishermen who should be made to pay . |
| 22 | If she did n't know him better , she would have said he was cross with her . |
| 23 | Aunt Emily had said he was Janet 's husband . |
| 24 | Simultaneously to starting a business , Louis started courting — and it can also be said he was piling-up a lot of trouble for himself . |
| 25 | I do n't know why I think maybe the , the tablets helped , but erm I was saying I was kind of having second thoughts whether I was wanting to go on the H R T or |
| 26 | So , she went to decorate the hall and got sent out with people saying she was Jessica . |
| 27 | After he leave school he had set up some sort of agricultural commune thing , he was always a man like that , saying we were people must make the most of we community skills and thing , but he get squeeze in that farming business and last I hear of him he had gone in the hills and become a guerrilla . |
| 28 | Little point in saying he was godfather to one of them . |
| 29 | Today we went to a fair in the morning and Loz from Kingmaker won a goldfish in a plastic bag and Bobby Gillespie got thrown off the bumper cars for saying he was Marc Bolan in a Mini and Polly Harvey was a tree . |
| 30 | Flashman said : ‘ Barry and I took calls on Thursday from someone saying he was Martin Edwards , and we genuinely thought it was him . |