Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] say [pers pn] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be lying to you if I said it was the same now . |
| 2 | But she says I 've had but she says and she says she was the one wanted me over to sit |
| 3 | ‘ Somebody bought Stevie Wonder a cheese grater for Christmas and he said it was the most violent novel he 'd ever read ! ’ |
| 4 | and he said it was the only year that he has n't . |
| 5 | He 'd got all the er information about it when he came and he said it was the best type of covering if you 've got dogs or cats . |
| 6 | I said well I apologize for sending all that sir , I said , but I said it was the only way to get somebody 's attention of what was going on ! |
| 7 | But she says it was the tiredness she was unprepared for . |
| 8 | One child referred to in court as child A , finally admitted taking James Bulger to a railway embankment near Walton but he said it was the other boy child B who threw bricks at him and hit him with a stick and a metal bar . |
| 9 | Ella Pringle only let Luke into the Old Rectory because he said he was the Rector 's son . |
| 10 | But as I say he was the most conscientious removal man and after two years when he came in he was so upset . |
| 11 | But the story goes way off-beam when it says I was the guy started the shooting . |
| 12 | He put it in a nutshell when he said she was the sort of girl who , if there had been a meadow handy , would have been out there in a flash picking cowslips . |