Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was even worse , the women were unofficially said to be better at it . |
| 2 | No in actual fact we were only saying the other day that , you know , sugar Viv ? |
| 3 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 4 | I think it might , cos like does a lot of legal aid , so erm the , you know , legal aid work and he 's quite into it I think , I think he 's quite a decent chappie erm what they were basically saying was poor people wo n't be re erm erm poor people would n't be represented well enough , were n't they ? |
| 5 | The vigorous shower did not have any of the beneficial effects such things were generally said to have by public-school games-masters of a previous age . |
| 6 | ‘ We were just saying , ’ murmured Bromley , ‘ that we did n't expect any foreigners here . ’ |
| 7 | You were just saying , you know , that we should just walk in the streets and things like , but I would just not walk out in the streets at night , I 've got to be in the car with the doors locked and , and I just would n't walk out in the streets at night , not because any thing has happened to me , but its just through what I 've heard , I 'm just terrified . |
| 8 | We were just saying , were n't we ? ’ said Werewolf loudly . |
| 9 | What we were just saying Cath was , we was just trying to look at the , the tape that 's just come from Marcus , the erm the film and |
| 10 | You you were just saying about us not knowing . |
| 11 | funny mind , we were just speaking about funerals not that long ago and you were just saying like er you remember the , when he died , |
| 12 | We were just saying you ought to be good at that . |
| 13 | And people were just saying to me what 's the matter ? |
| 14 | No , we wo , we were just saying like that it 's a shame because like maybe some of them have been made redundant or |
| 15 | We were saying , we were just saying maximizing sales as in more otherwise it 's sales potential rather |
| 16 | We when we got the song first and recorded we we were talking one day and we were just saying it would be an ideal song for Children in Need you know so we decided that we 'd er donate all the proceeds from this track on the video and album and the concert in Stockport , it 's tomorrow night is n't it ? |
| 17 | We were just saying that today I said she 's gon na have flipping massive erm calf muscles when she 's older . |
| 18 | We were just saying that . |
| 19 | Some men were already saying that Artai 's election was ill-starred . |
| 20 | His Mum and Dad were always saying Mrs Wright would have trouble with her car the way she drove it . |
| 21 | People were always saying things were over . |
| 22 | ‘ It was funny , people were always saying things about her , about how she 'd come to no good — ’ He stopped again . |
| 23 | Before I left school , the local papers were full of me , They were always saying things like ‘ This boy will go all the way to the top ’ and that , and I suppose you could say I took notice of the media . |
| 24 | People were always saying so . |
| 25 | While the agreement of Aug. 27 deferred formal dissolution until the New Year , both leaders were still said to be optimistic on the Sept. 30 deadline for passage of federal laws to dissolve the federation and divide its powers and property . |
| 26 | But water chiefs were still saying we have not got over the drought . |
| 27 | ‘ And although we probably were n't as proficient as performers then , those people were still saying , ‘ F— off , you c—s ! |
| 28 | Telephone lines to the property were also said to have been cut . |
| 29 | The plummy Home Counties accents were also said to be difficult for Americans to understand ( though this problem never seemed to arise when the same actors — James Mason , Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons — became Hollywood stars ) . |
| 30 | The Hooligans were also said to hunt in cowardly packs , however , and news reports regularly featured them smashing up coffee-stalls and public houses , assaulting staff in pubs and cheap eating-houses , robbing and assaulting old ladies , attacking foreigners such as Italian ice-cream vendors or ‘ Froggy ’ cafe owners , and setting upon policemen in the streets with savage howls of ‘ Boot ‘ em ! ’ |