Example sentences of "say [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I can only say I took some heart in all of this from the following interchange which had taken place on 1 May between my good friend Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson ( Member of Parliament for the New Forest ) and the prime minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
2 | Well I , I 'm sure it would n't be , what did I say I said that sea green and the cerise |
3 | ‘ He just said : ‘ Tell her : ‘ You always did say I did daft things if you were n't around to stop me . ’ ’ |
4 | Can I go to did you say you wanted some milk ? |
5 | Did you say you wanted some pot some , or did you get them ? |
6 | ‘ Did n't you once say she had multiple sclerosis ? ’ |
7 | Did you say she had two son 's ? , is the other one married ? . |
8 | GUIL : I think we can say we made some headway . |
9 | ‘ How can anyone say we killed British fiction when we 're publishing the complete works of Anthony Trollope in chronological order ? ’ he complained . |
10 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
11 | They are the leaders of the Vauxhall League division two south , so I suppose you could say they dropped two points today ; Harefield two , Abingdon Town two , our reporter , Nick Quayle . |
12 | Would you say it had enough bottle age ? |
13 | Somehow Mr Mallory could n't honestly say he felt any affection for Damien . |
14 | The point is , though , no matter how badly people might say he played that week and won — everybody 's going to miss a few fairways ; Tom Watson was just as erratic in 1983 , that 's his game and he 's no mug — he 'd got it all worked out . |
15 | I was amazed to hear him say he did two hours ‘ warming-up ’ exercises before he did his muscle-building stuff . |