Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] say [prep] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , that 's what I 'll say in my defence when I get back . |
| 2 | is something that I would not say to a French lady , something that I could say to my daughter , right ? |
| 3 | I used to say to my mum , " Why am I this colour ? " |
| 4 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 5 | All I can say in my defence is that at this point in history , I find it useful to do two things with my own writing and speech . |
| 6 | All I can say in my defence is that I have nothing now in my life that I would need to hide from you . ’ |
| 7 | One thing you could say for my daughter , she never let herself go . |
| 8 | He 'd tell him , he 'd get his orders from the office , cos the Deputy Harbourmaster he would go down all the sound he sound in river and see what wanted taken out , then he 'd say to my father I 'll dredge at so and so belo below docksill and docksill what they used to do they used to , my father what he 'd do he 'd put stakes on the mud , a short stake and a long stake on account of the tide and he 'd , he 'd make an imaginary on that stake , then he 'd go ashore at Wolverston , phone up what have you got on your docksill , the fella might say it 's ten feet , well he 'd say right we 'll make that twenty feet , so that 's er , that 's what he used to work on to dredge the river . |
| 9 | There might be a yachtsman come along and he 'd want a mooring , so he 'd say to my father , can you fix us up yes , get an old bit of chain and put round , put some wooden wed wedges in tighten 'em up , up , that 's his , that 's his mooring , he 'd take it somewhere in the river , have it dumped , put a buoy on it , that was , that 's like his anchor . |