Example sentences of "say it [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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | You says it was inflammation of the nerves in the |
| 12 | Matthew Pinsent says it was Cambridge 's race … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But the prosecution says it was murder , and the crime WAS planned . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd have said it was Sunday morning if you want it right . ’ |
| 17 | I mean if it ha if somebody had said it was Danny from the Tri-Club I would have had a |
| 18 | The Farmers ' Union of Wales had said it was fishermen who should be made to pay . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , she said a lot of good things about how housework and things were essential social work — you know , saying it was work , hard work , servicing other people , not that airy fairy labour of love stuff , and how it ought to be recognised , and how it was because women were seen as wives and mothers that they got low wages , no money when they were at home looking after small kids . |
| 20 | I 'm not saying it was fourpence but perhaps you 'd get fourpence . |
| 21 | ‘ Alicia kept banging on the door saying it was John Major 's office but , of course , I did n't believe her . |
| 22 | Amanda had been all enthusiastic even in the rain , saying it was spray in her face and look at the gulls , which were swooping down on the shoal of crisp packets and orange peel trailing in the wake . |
| 23 | Some men protested , saying it was Christmas , others refused point blank to return to the trenches . |
| 24 | He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life . |
| 25 | The case for saying it was murder |
| 26 | In fact the first person to say it was anthropologist Thomas Hornsby Ferril , who wrote an article in the Rocky Mountain Herald in December 1955 that put forward the idea that American football is actually a : |
| 27 | ‘ Going almost solely on your files and his MO , I 'd have to say it was Peter Lawton , ’ the Records Officer told him . |
| 28 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 29 | Over his shoulder she glanced at the clock over the door — the hands seemed to be moving very fast and she was reluctant to say it was time she was going . |
| 30 | She 'd have had to say it was twins , if it had been , would n't she ? |