Example sentences of "[pers pn] say [conj] [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 2 | I say because I was running around a bit I think . |
| 3 | What was I saying when I was interrupted ? |
| 4 | ‘ I said that something was set on fire today . ’ |
| 5 | I said that I was going to take you away to Arrancay with me — and keep you there away from all the bitterness and the lies . |
| 6 | ‘ You must need your head tested ’ , was one of the more polite reactions when I said that I was going to spend two weeks holiday walking some 120 miles up-and-down mountains rather than lying in the sun . |
| 7 | and I said and I was hesitating and I said I 'm sorry I said I feel a bit embarrassed he said for what reason and old Rose was with me well at door she said she knows me she said well she said if it will interest you what if I never . |
| 8 | I mean as I said when I was filling in the questionnaire I was thinking well this , really this is my preference and you know I 'd much rather be in a job that allowed me some flexibility . |
| 9 | but I do n't want to go actually I said when I was beginning , there is a reason |
| 10 | I said when I was told the Echo had seconded me to a new day job , a comic career move . |
| 11 | I said when I was told the Echo had seconded me to a new day job , a comic career move . |
| 12 | The DNA content must be a small proportion of the total , so why did I say that it was raining DNA rather than cellulose ? |
| 13 | She says that he was hanging by his dressing gown cord from a banister . |
| 14 | She says that it was spinning in the road . |
| 15 | Miss Bhutto is spitting fury , not just over the matter of the provincial assemblies , but also because she says that she was given fewer ministries in the caretaker government ( just under a quarter ) than she deserves . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd like something to drink , ’ she said while he was putting the luggage together . |
| 17 | She said that everything was ordered , and that pleased me because I had to carry it all . |
| 18 | She said that she was waiting for some of her belongings to be sent on , but she 'd supply all her tax and National Insurance details as soon as they came . |
| 19 | ‘ Martha , ’ she said as she was eating , ‘ I 've been thinking . |
| 20 | If you 're asked , will you say that I was sneezing out here ? " |
| 21 | Unaware , Randall was saying urgently : ‘ What would you say if I was to arrange things myself ? |
| 22 | ‘ I remember her saying that she was trying so damn hard and all she needed was a pat on the back , ’ recalls a friend . |
| 23 | They said that he was to prepare the execution of the deed . |
| 24 | their high tea , were n't bothered about high tea , but still , er then , they 'd have , they might have a supper because she ai n't been a work , their elderly , they perhaps have a good tea , the they , they went to bed at nine and they said if I was reading something , they said , you know turn the gas out when you come up and , there you are well you can see , if one landlady gave me egg for me lunch that I had n't had , they not , they were n't gon na feed you up at supper time were they ? |
| 25 | He says that he was operating when a bullet wizzed in through the window and hit the surgeon next to him . |
| 26 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 27 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 28 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |
| 29 | He says when it was brought in it was salivating and aggressive . |
| 30 | Had he said that he was going to his death in Lucifer 's inferno ? |