Example sentences of "[pers pn] say he [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said he should have a bit of a lie-in ; he had another bad night again . |
| 2 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 3 | They say he could have a future when he 's finished his studies . " |
| 4 | I thought that would be that , but they said he could have a vote , and he loves to go . |
| 5 | So now he says he will marry a Russian princess ! |
| 6 | He says — what 's that phrase of his ? — he says he can drop a stone into that particular well and never hear the splash . |
| 7 | He says he can guarantee a student will pass after just 3 weeks cramming . |
| 8 | And er he , of course with him being a blacksmith , he could get a job anywhere in America , he says he could leave a town tonight and land in another town , he says and he could be sure of getting a job with him being a blacksmith . |
| 9 | He said he would appoint a new ambassador to Moscow and new members to a team dealing with outstanding issues between the two countries to increase the emphasis on economic questions . |
| 10 | At one point during the campaign , he said he would appoint a peace envoy to Northern Ireland if elected a controversial idea which drew a sharp response from Ulster Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew . |
| 11 | He said he would seek a meeting with senior planning officers to establish if anything more is known about the company behind the proposal . |
| 12 | He said he would like a plant or two of Gale with spleenwort leaves ( i.e. Comptonia peregriaa var. aspleniifolia ) and dried specimens of the male and female plants , having only seen the former . |
| 13 | ‘ He said he 'd stuff a mattress with it ! ’ whispered Gabriel hoarsely . |
| 14 | but they 'd got some people coming and were very relieved when he said he 'd get a minicab to Reading . |
| 15 | still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee . |