Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] be say [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm glad I 'm grown-up now actually because er y'know it 's one of my great pleasures in life to wake up in the mornings and think great I 'm grown-up , I do n't have to go to school and er and I do n't have to live with my parents and er things are much better now than they were say sort of y'know twenty years ago or so , er giving away my age there . |
| 2 | It is emotional because he is saying goodbye to the last of his kind . |
| 3 | Juan Fernandez Krohn , aged 32 , was arrested after a man armed with a bayonet approached the Pope while he was saying prayers at Fatima on Wednesday night . |
| 4 | ‘ Nelly the Elephant ’ had just been chorus-interruptus as she was saying goodbye to the thingy , and a large girl in her mother 's dirndl skirt from IIIB was attacking the string round the paper with her teeth and pretending not to hear that the music had started again , when I felt the red drain out of my skirt and into my face . |
| 5 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 6 | He looked noble , as though he were saying goodbye before catching a troop ship to almost certain death on some foreign front . |