Example sentences of "they [verb] say [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to be that soaps are endlessly doing that , they want to say maybe nurture is actually more important than blood , but then they pull back and keep reasserting the importance of blood ties . |
| 2 | It was Nimrod , it was Nimrod with Univers , it was , except occasionally there 'd be Grot nine , not because you felt they wanted to use Grot nine , but because they 'd said well what 's this one that has n't got serifs . |
| 3 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
| 4 | They keep saying well a sixth must be bigger cos six is bigger . |
| 5 | Do n't you remember they kept saying , they kept saying there gon na shut it down , shut it down , and then six months later we went round there , oh no there no shut |
| 6 | If the parties , when they wish something to be made of the essence , say so in terms , then obviously it is of the essence if they do say so , and the probability is , that where they do not say so , it is not intended to be of the essence ( Amherst v Walker ( James ) Goldsmith & Silversmith Ltd ( 1980 ) 254 EG 123 ) . |
| 7 | They 've said well I ca n't make head or tail of it . |
| 8 | That 's what , that 's what they 've said anyway . |
| 9 | President , I 've , er , had lots of advice from my colleagues as to how to respond to the comments of the shop stewards er , I can only respond and say thank you very much indeed for the kind things they 've said particularly , erm , specific point that 's been raised on the industry from my colleagues that are from the Midlands and East Coast the situation currently is that , er , we have decided to ballot for industrial action in E C C and the T & G have decided to ballot for industrial action in , I think its . |
| 10 | cos all the things they 've said before . |
| 11 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 12 | He had seen it hundreds of times on the faces of people who fancied that they had said too much to him , opened their hearts too wide . |
| 13 | But they have said little about law 's part in the mosaic . |
| 14 | ‘ They have said so ? ’ |
| 15 | However , they have said very little about the membership or the nature of political argument within the Britons or the IFL , and almost nothing on the most important of the extreme anti-semitic organizations , the NL , and its guiding spirit , Archibald H. Maule Ramsay MP . |
| 16 | If people have not had the chance to say the things they wanted to say then the sense of unfinished business can be overwhelming . |
| 17 | They had n't wanted to , very much ; the little mining town was desolate and ugly and the only hotel smelled of stale beer and greasy chips , but Carrie had looked so different suddenly , so happy and ironed-out and eager , that none of them had said so . |