Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun sg] and [pron] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And it was only when we were tucked up in her freezing room in Charlotte Street that I got this strange feeling and I said , ‘ But you 're not Janet , are you ? ’ |
| 2 | It takes a year to organize this grand event and it says something for the racecourse when the only thing that went wrong yesterday was the weather . |
| 3 | And then I got onstage wearing this stupid nightshirt and I said , ‘ Oh , I 'll have you know I 'm tripping , so please do n't try to freak me out ’ — so they all started chanting and looking mean . |
| 4 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
| 5 | a few years ago when my sons were teenagers I had some nice dripping and I said , you 've never had bread and dripping and I gave them some , I put a bit of salt on , I said , try this , I loved a bit of med bread and dripping when I was your age . |
| 6 | This is the unspoken assumption which seems to underlie much stratigraphical thought and which says in effect that if one looks ( and argues ) long enough and hammers hard enough , then eventually one glorious day one will come upon the golden horizon that really is the Silurian/Devonian boundary . |
| 7 | One can look back in eighty seven when we had that terrible storm and they said well once in a hundred years and then we had a storm very similar I think it is essential we look |
| 8 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 9 | The incident may have happened nineteen hundred years ago there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says , the dying thief rejoice to see that fountain in his day , and there may I , though he wash all my sins away . |
| 10 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 11 | Did you se , the advert with er Ronnie Barker talking to that other feller and he says oh aye he says we were going through a really bad patch me and the wife who went to marriage guidance and Ronnie Barker says oh did it do you any good ? |