Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [conj] say [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thanked Mitch again for the tattoo and said it was lasting pretty well , considering . |
| 2 | She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime . |
| 3 | She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime . |
| 4 | ANC leaders blamed President de Klerk 's government for the massacre and said they would not respond ‘ meekly ’ . |
| 5 | Today ex-manager Farrelly claims he is not bitter about the split but says he is annoyed about the things Sinead has said about that period . |
| 6 | While this was taking place , the deputy mayor spoke about the tradition and said he was sure Councillor Roland Simpson , who was about to take up his second year of office , would soon be discovered . |
| 7 | The MP who went to sea at 14 did not know about the motion and said he appreciated the gesture . |
| 8 | I did n't think it was possible for somebody to stand in the middle of the fairway and say it 's an iron of any description . |
| 9 | Okay Trevor well let's get that that that hurdle out of the way and say you and I agree that . |
| 10 | she comes out of the bush and says she wants a highwayman to take her . |
| 11 | The judge complimented Keith on his very professional titling and presentation of the exhibition but said he would have preferred to have judged them loose , before they were hung . |
| 12 | Adam set the twelve sherry glasses that were cut in a greek key pattern round their rims in the middle of the moonlight and said he would put them in a box tomorrow and try to sell them in Sudbury to the man who had the antique shop in Gainsborough Street that they had passed . |
| 13 | Officials gave no detail of the obstruction but said it was not a fishbone . |
| 14 | That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him . |
| 15 | The thermometer was reading over 100° Centigrade , but Harvey had fiddled with the stove and said it would get hot in a moment . |
| 16 | ‘ She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls . |
| 17 | well but the important thing is she 's engaged to be married I would reckon by the time she 's about twenty-six she 'll be looking for time out to have a family but by that time hopefully she 's and when she 's thirty-two or thirty-three can come back into the business and say I 've got a and the door opens that much more easily |
| 18 | The gypsies claimed the right to the fair under the charter and said they had obtained the permission of the lord of the manor . |
| 19 | Does not he have a powerful point when he says : ’ The new system is run by accountants who do n't have to sit across the table from the patient and say I can not treat you' ’ until the new financial year ? |
| 20 | ‘ And there I was waiting for you , in such a state ever since Kukrit came back late from the airport and said he 'd missed you , ’ Jeremy replies , suggesting with automatic but irrelevant chivalry that they are lovers separated from their tryst with one another . |
| 21 | Adam got up from the table and said he thought he might go over to Rufus 's . |
| 22 | ‘ And all this from the party that said it was the party of low taxation . |
| 23 | You are going to decide now , by looking at your graph how you could improve this piece of work and I want you to write the target you decide on , it could be more than one , in the space that says I would improve this work by , you 're to write that now please , off you go and while you 're doing that let's get the register done , shh , shh shh , shh Sarah |
| 24 | ‘ It is very evident that since the publication of the paperback the campaign against it has subsided , to such an extent that even one of my most hardline critics , the British Muslim Dr Kalim Siddiqui , was recently quoted in the Guardian as saying it is time to forgive and forget , which is a rather extraordinary volte-face from someone who was until recently asking for my head on a plate . |
| 25 | ‘ But at the end of the day , I can look at myself in the mirror and say I gave 100 per cent . |
| 26 | I worked in the factory and said it was for fun ; but it was n't — I did it because I needed to . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The doctor had visited the man earlier in the day and said he would be back later that night when he thought the pneumonia would have reached its crisis . ’ |
| 28 | His owner Dick Knowles told Dogs Today : ‘ There 's nothing in the constitution that says you have to be human to be an MP ! |
| 29 | Charles kept remembering what Micky Banks had gone through at the same stage , and often , like his predecessor , was ready to throw in the towel and say it was impossible . |
| 30 | Sometimes I get very cross with the patients , sometimes they , when you 're on call , they ring you up at three in the morning and say they 're constipated ! |