Example sentences of "say [pers pn] had [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But for instance , say we had two shunters , I had two shunters . |
| 7 | It may have been costly , but those in charge say they had little choice . |
| 8 | Two sons aged fifteen and four , and a daughter of one year old , were mentioned in the 1871 census , but A. W. Humphrey ( see below ) says he had five children to support . |
| 9 | Terry B says he had some treatment and lots of help from friends … he goes to meetings every week and he 's enjoying life and taking one day at a time … he 's had one innings and is now enjoying his second |
| 10 | I first knew it unmistakably when Herr Sussmeyer replied to my first letter , saying he had this quest for pubic hairs because he loved and respected women so much . |
| 11 | In his conference speech Mr Fowler attacked Labour 's reviewed industrial relations policy , saying it had one aim : to make strikes easier . |
| 12 | I 'm not saying it had such a positive effect on his career but it caused a lot of attention which he did n't buckle under , and I do feel a lot of people could n't have lived through that experience , but he did . |
| 13 | HDS declined to specify its installed X-terminal base , saying it had 200,000 units in the field , most of them serial terminals . |
| 14 | As I said I had one quiff from Jane that was erm because somebody had n't filled in the date by which it was agreed that the Client should get a reply and suggestion was that the procedure should be changed should be non compliance , erm and then the rest of this is based on a suggestion from Rita , and I have several here now , erm . |
| 15 | ‘ Who said I had such an idea ? ’ asked Joan innocently . |
| 16 | She said I have my good days and my bad days , said I had bad day yesterday not too bad . |
| 17 | Oh yes , they 're very , very clever so Doug was saying to me one day in work , walking dogs together in Wellington , he said I had this fellow yesterday , he just convinced a board that he did n't need any more treatment , he was cured erm , he would n't do any more |
| 18 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 19 | I said I had three kids and I could |
| 20 | Plus I already had that , plus I had another five I did n't tell you about , I had fifteen when you said you had fifteen , look , one there 's me first ten |
| 21 | You said you had powerful suspicions . |
| 22 | You said you had six children |
| 23 | ‘ You said you had two jobs for me , sir . ’ |
| 24 | Thought you said you had french and maths ? |
| 25 | She said she had one last year and it were excellent so she brought me one . |
| 26 | Charles always said she had such a cold , disdainful way of speaking , but she seemed pleasant enough , Clarissa thought . |
| 27 | He denied forcing the teenager to go with him in a car and said she had many chances to leave him . |
| 28 | Sid Walcott , 49 , said she had shouting matches with her boyfriend , the children 's father . |
| 29 | Amaranth , who loved his clean-cut looks , rewarded him with a blinding smile , and said she had much more time for Disraeli . |
| 30 | They said she had pulmonary embolism and 7 days later , she died . |