Example sentences of "say [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The height , with your bloody shoes on , cos I was gon na say I 'm five foot and a half inch and I 'm taller than you |
| 2 | ‘ Let's just say there 's one man I do n't trust , but I 'm not so bigoted that I 'm a man-hater . ’ |
| 3 | Now , let me say there 's one component of what Brian and Gerry have been saying , which I most passionately agree with as it happens — get that bit off my chest first — and that is that until we have a clear understanding of the mechanisms and processes of development , the processes whereby an egg turns into an adult , our theory of evolution will , indeed , be very imperfect , and we do not have such a theory , erm it 's exceedingly important that we should work on such a theory , and such a theory it is n't sufficient simply to say ‘ Oh well , there 's a genetic programme for development ’ and imagine that in other ways actually said something , because you actually have n't . |
| 4 | Some would say there 's poetic justice in all this . |
| 5 | Did someone say there 's more drama on the shipping forecast ? |
| 6 | I tell you what though , I must say there 's less water here since , she 's , she 's left in the garden because it used to lay here did n't it ? |
| 7 | You could say there 's some room for rationalisation , ’ says Nissan 's British importer . |
| 8 | ‘ Ah , ’ said the white man , ‘ but I would n't say there is much hate in Rhodesia . |
| 9 | Using that as a working theory , I 'd say there was some sort of time limit involved — I mean , a time during which it is imperative for people not to know that he 's dead , but a time that comes to an end , after which it does n't matter so much . " |
| 10 | With all this yuppie rubbish at the moment , I 'd say it 's long hair , neat but sexy clothes , of course long nails , straight teeth , small nose , big eyes , shaved armpits and legs , nice perfume , and an independent-but-dying-to-be-subservient look about her . |
| 11 | Then I suppose they 'll say it 's all management 's fault , and people will believe them . |
| 12 | He 'll say it 's all part of continual assessment : the whole point of the course is mass hysteria . |
| 13 | Erm well I 'd say it 's curly sort of oh it 's dark hair , curlyish |
| 14 | I was gon na say it 's ten pound a night each at that place we saw that was lovely were n't it ? |
| 15 | But I would say it 's some kind of tribesman . ’ |
| 16 | He 'd smile and say it was great being friends with you . |
| 17 | Oh , I do n't think you could clearly dichotomize and say it was one thing or the other . |
| 18 | what the valency is to make up this formula you could do the same if it was if someone told you it was an some unknown So if it 's an unknown compound and I drip Let's say it was unknown compound and I dripped hydrochloric acid on and I got carbon dioxide given off yeah |
| 19 | I would say it was three foot six . |
| 20 | so , what did she say it was twenty pound an hour ? |