Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] say [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lads would say they were out of beer money , so I 'd go looking for a booth . |
| 2 | It 's a bit like me , you do n't expect to loose your job but you , you can , you can , no one these days can say you ca n't |
| 3 | So what have we done , we 've put the money into ten lots of five pound now okay so we got fifty pounds let's say we had it in five pound notes . |
| 4 | With the inability of stable monetary and/or fiscal policy to alter the real course of the economy , it is the determinants of the ‘ natural rates ’ that are the source of concern , and this is where the supply-siders would say they come in : by highlighting the way existing government policy provisions affect utility-maximizing choices , they concern themselves with the location of the various functions involved . |
| 5 | Perhaps most artists today and most museums would say I 'm wrong about that . |
| 6 | The neighbours will say he 's a nice young man , well , not so young really . |
| 7 | The Copts will say we tried to put it on him and the Moslems will say we let him off . ’ |
| 8 | Less generous critics might say it 's his last tilt at a windmill . |
| 9 | Critics can say we 're unsubtle , but even so , some people still do n't get it . ’ |
| 10 | The Copts will say we tried to put it on him and the Moslems will say we let him off . ’ |
| 11 | The instruments should say it all , according to Eric . |
| 12 | Others might say they hated her and mean it . |
| 13 | Most modern philosophers would say it was nonsense to say that Cruelty was cruel and only call people cruel or particular things . |
| 14 | Most modern philosophers would say it was nonsense to say that cruelty was cruel , you can only call people cruel , particular things . |
| 15 | Women would say she had ‘ good bones ’ . |
| 16 | Yet this is the very time we ask teenagers to make career choices , which may partly explain the findings that by age 35 over 60 per cent of men and women will say they chose the wrong career . |
| 17 | If Gunn said ‘ I 'm a human being ’ half the analysts would say he was a cardboard cutout . |
| 18 | The non-standard dialect is not a haphazard variant , since no speakers of non-standard dialects would say He done it , done he ? |