Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only then you say you were the person who telephoned . |
| 2 | People say they were the good old days , but oh I do n't think . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Others say it was the shortage of pubs , shops , churches , transport and police stations . |
| 5 | Indeed , industry observers say it was the swingers who gave birth to the home porn video in the early-Eighties . |
| 6 | Say it was the beginning of a feeling that you would like me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Kee looked at Karen and said quietly , ‘ Some people say he was the strongest houngan of all , the houngan we call Baron Samedi . ’ |
| 12 | He would confess all , go on his knees , say he was the Prince 's slave , buy him expensive presents … |
| 13 | But as I say he was the most conscientious removal man and after two years when he came in he was so upset . |
| 14 | But the story goes way off-beam when it says I was the guy started the shooting . |
| 15 | But she says I 've had but she says and she says she was the one wanted me over to sit |
| 16 | Amelia McLean described how she had been " waylaid … on [ her ] way home for dinner " by Mr Evans of the W. and C.U. , who " after calling her … everything but a lady , had said she was the most unsympathetic woman in Edinburgh " . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've always said you were the best blacksmith I ever had . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If I had n't seen you struggling with that dandelion I would n't have said you were the muddy-boots type . ’ |
| 19 | The prosecution says he was the driver of the Renault 25 . |
| 20 | Pliny names Archermos in a family of Chiot sculptors , and another writer says he was the first to give Nike wings . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | One of John Hill 's best friends , who 's helped found the Cotwsold Motorboat racing club with him 30 years ago , says he was the sports leading lights … |
| 25 | I just turned round and says mine was the cheapest price anyway ! |
| 26 | Delta says it was the ‘ destructive acts ’ of the creditors ' committee and its advisers that prevented the reorganisation , and that it provided $115m finance and blames the committee for its losses . |
| 27 | ‘ The chairman of the bench denies falling asleep and says it was the way he was sitting in his chair , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Vicky told me : ‘ Laurence says it was the bottle that first got Frank into diffs . |
| 29 | But she says it was the tiredness she was unprepared for . |
| 30 | 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 . |