Example sentences of "say [pron] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's easy , you just say I 'm the Government , give me your money , |
| 2 | if you 'd of gone to them for advice and say which is the better buy , which will was wash better and why , you know , I want I want |
| 3 | ‘ They say she 's the youngest prima ballerina ever to dance at the Coliseum . ’ |
| 4 | The Bulgarians sombrely suggest that she is a dead mother looking for her own baby , while the Spanish say she is the GHOST of an aunt or grandmother , looking to make a gift to her descendants . |
| 5 | Erm and when the assignment er that you are sent or when the assignment comes to the top of the pile they look around the er organization and say who is the most suitably er geographically er situated and who is the most available who is gon na be available . |
| 6 | Say you 're the nearest I can find in the book , Filton I should try . |
| 7 | What , say you 're the care-giver and I 'm the |
| 8 | They all say you are the best houngan in Haiti . |
| 9 | ‘ Sir Fulke , you say you are the executor of Sir Ralph 's will ? ’ |
| 10 | It 's only then you say you were the person who telephoned . |
| 11 | They say we are the turkeys but you better believe , We 'll be doing all the stuffing , In the Mid-Counties Combination League . |
| 12 | Our adverts say we 're the professionals , the experts , the specialists . |
| 13 | Erm , we also , again I mean , as you say , we always look at ourselves and say we 're the best team in the company . |
| 14 | But just a mile across the city , their rivals say they 're the originals . |
| 15 | Some say they are the ‘ shape of things to come ’ . |
| 16 | They have fiery red eyes and some say they are the Devil 's own pets , roaming the countryside with him each evening in search of the newly dead . |
| 17 | People say they were the good old days , but oh I do n't think . |
| 18 | Its admirers say it is the consummate manager . |
| 19 | Some say they should bring back hanging ; others say it is the politicians they should hang ; but most say there is nothing anybody can do at all . |
| 20 | Every year in October we say it is the finest thing in the garden . |
| 21 | Some say it is the form assumed by the GHOST of a girl disappointed in love , who fruitlessly searches for her sweetheart , a fisherman who was drowned . |
| 22 | The majority say it is the fault of a Weak Government which could not run a Whelk Stall . |
| 23 | ‘ Where they have dug the hole is a main junction , they say it is the worst place for the leak , where the water is separated . |
| 24 | ‘ I have no rich things to give but I will take my black bread for they say it is the best in the whole world . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ They say it is the cry of the Hound of the Baskervilles , ’ I replied . |
| 26 | Marry , so there have been diverse good plots devised and wise counsels cast already about reformation of that realm , but they say it is the fatal destiny of that land that no purposes whatsoever are meant for her good will prosper or take good effect , which whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil , or the influence of the stars , or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation , or that He reserveth her in this unquiet state still , for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England , it is hard to be known but yet much to be feared . |
| 27 | There really is something to celebrate as the new hospital opens — its consultants say it is the best in the country — with a standard of care and treatment equalling that in private hospitals combined with the facilities to continue pioneering research into skin disease . |
| 28 | Education officials in Milton Keynes say it is the latest in a series of attacks on schoolgirls . |
| 29 | As they shift from one adult to another , teachers say it is the video which keeps them under control — a new binge of blood and guts each time they are shuttled past the rental shop . |
| 30 | THE New York marathon turned out to be exactly what they say it is the greatest sporting spectacle in the world . |