Example sentences of "say [pers pn] have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 2 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 3 | If I say I have enough clothes , I have enough clothes , ’ she finished . |
| 4 | Although , like Asterix , he attributed his phenomenal prowess partly to a magic potion , ‘ Superjuice ’ , concocted by his druidical sponsors , Body Ammo , he did n't really need it : ‘ They say I have three balls — I need an outlet for that extra energy . ’ |
| 5 | Well she smokes Lambert and Butlers and as I say she had one fag left and she said I have to keep that for Norm . |
| 6 | Now the authorities say she has little chance of getting them back . |
| 7 | Some say she has long fair hair , others that she 's as dusky a beauty as you 'd find among the pieds-noirs ! |
| 8 | Yeah Well that 's what i say you 've all got ta go back to business plan have n't you and and |
| 9 | As I said before a bus was on a certain route number , say you had one Witton what was had now and then , well that that ran from six o'clock in the morning perhaps till eleven o'clock at night . |
| 10 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
| 11 | ‘ You say you have one of the stones Christ turned into a loaf of bread ? ’ the friar queried , trying hard to hide his laughter . |
| 12 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 13 | But for instance , say we had two shunters , I had two shunters . |
| 14 | What forty fi well we have a bit more , Say we have forty eight replies by now . |
| 15 | The workers say they 've little chance of getting another job . |
| 16 | It may have been costly , but those in charge say they had little choice . |
| 17 | We are part way through a randomised multi-centre control trial of rehabilitation and the majority of physicians collaborating say they have insufficient time to review all their patients after discharge , after this aggressive therapy of 3 or 4 days in hospital . |
| 18 | Neither the family of Kingsley Sam nor the police say they have any idea why he was shot . |
| 19 | Old residents say they have more in common with the latinos than with the ultra-rich who have taken over their valley . |
| 20 | Marje says : ‘ I think I 'm not so different from my readers , who write and say they have brutal husbands , and how they are beaten night after night by drunken swine who abuse them in every way and yet they still go on living with them . |
| 21 | According to a survey carried out by Brylcreem , 43% of British men say they have sensitive skin . |
| 22 | German prosecutors say they have enough information to investigate GM 's complaints that Mr Lopez , and other senior executives who defected , took secret documents with them to VW . |
| 23 | As I say it 's all got ta be subject to you negotiate with him |
| 24 | She says she has 17 kids like this right now . |
| 25 | She says she has much more chance at this school of getting the qualifications she would need to become a social worker or a journalist ( she feels there a lot of good black journalists around but not enough women ) . |
| 26 | ‘ David says you have some unfinished business , ’ said her father . |
| 27 | ‘ It does n't mean a damn thing when he says we have low interest rates . |
| 28 | He says we have more to fear from the posters . |
| 29 | She says we have devious minds ! |
| 30 | He says we have strict rules and regulations and the flying safety committee make sure they 're administered . |