Example sentences of "say a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say a lethal cocktail of lorries and cars has caused more than fifty fatal accidents in recent years , and that improvements need to be made now . |
| 2 | Nothing gives me more pleasure now and if I go to the to the libraries and a young lad I say a young man like you will come to me and say , Hello Nurse , How are you ? |
| 3 | I know the unemployment figures may be higher and all this business , but erm I mean er a single person during those days , er say a young man in his teens , working would been s stopped in the quarry . |
| 4 | Detectives in say a young couple could have vital information on a d fifteen year old girl . |
| 5 | POLICE say a young loner who claimed feminists had ruined his life was responsible for a bloody shooting spree at a Montreal university in which 14 women were killed . |
| 6 | POLICE say a young loner who claimed feminists had ruined his life was responsible for a bloody shooting spree at a Montreal university in which 14 women were killed . |
| 7 | Say six ohms on each of these in parallel and two ohms there and that 's say a twelve volt battery erm could you work out the current in that resistor ? |
| 8 | Suppose something , say a monetary expansion , starts nominal aggregate demand growing , which in turn produces a rise in prices and wages of , say , 2 per cent per year . |
| 9 | When I say a right brain of course it does n't mean that the left brain 's just shut down completely but it 's predominantly a a right brain activity it 's the the creative part . |
| 10 | They will , er they say a second division team will win it this year . |
| 11 | Old Hall yes , yes , yes , yeah and so I think and of course erm I have talked erm I talk in the different clubs you know , as I say , and I think erm the majority of women usually like this , they look forward to the divi to buy say a major item , you know . |
| 12 | Now when I say a black eye I mean one that actually looks blue-black and is quite swollen . |
| 13 | I date say a cheap day return from British Rail might account for a lot of it , but the rest is speculation . |
| 14 | Erm this gives an average over say a five year period of about a hundred and forty nine dwellings per annum , if you if you divide that by the household er estimate of something like two point five household size , which is the current sort of level in Cleveland . |
| 15 | ‘ I see a lot of software produced by end-users who have no idea they are in the software market , yet if you are a company that 's produced its own system , say a financial system , that really helps you to work better then why not market it ? ’ |
| 16 | Among the 35 to 44 age group , 27 per cent say a congenial publican is important , while among the 55-pluses , 35 per cent say the same . |
| 17 | I say a tall man coming across the street in shirt-sleeves . |
| 18 | I think that , more , not sort of say a general question like that , but say that after the collection has happened that you want returns for the number of people in Oxford that have benefited from the number of groups in Oxford that have benefited . |
| 19 | The annual presentation of awards ceremony during the afternoon say a good turnout of supporters and distinguished guests in the Festival Hall . |
| 20 | But er we eventually beat it though and as I say a good colliery you could er you could beat 'em to it . |
| 21 | And master sausage makers like John Walton say a good sausage can be very healthy using leaner meat and fresh ingedients . |
| 22 | raise say a hundred pound or seventy five and then that can go towards payment er the payment for someone to patrol the car park for the plays . |
| 23 | you know what I mean , if I say a similar situation close , right |
| 24 | Police say a sharp instrument possibly a knife was used to mutilate the animal . |
| 25 | Well sometimes if I 'm doing er say a sixty year old , to sixty five , he 's got his state pension to come in at sixty five , so even if the P E P has n't quite recovered , he might just decide to leave that where it is , and then his state pension comes in , his income is then made up , and off we go again . |
| 26 | Even in physics and chemistry they still appeared to be within the grasp of the ‘ practical man ’ — say a civil engineer . |
| 27 | The police say a small investment in clothing like this could save your life . |
| 28 | They say a small amount of money is all that seems to be missing from the Springburn flat where Mrs Law 's body was discovered exactly two weeks ago . |
| 29 | Well , I say a small town , it was more of a village really , but I live in Mannheim now , since my parents died … anyway , when things came to a head , I failed to support her , though I agreed with her really — up to a point that is , there were some things I disagreed with her about . |
| 30 | She said there was this female , that the other thing , and there was a whole long list of things that pointed to this interpretation , and it was all part of a , as you say a great mass of data , that erm , is , is quite mind-bogglingly large , if you actually erm , see it in words . |