Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] and says " in BNC.
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| 1 | If somebody calls you up and says something 's not working , always ask , well what did you change recently , and ninety five percent of the time , it 's that that 's the cause of the problems . |
| 2 | I mean if somebody rings you up and says How much will it cost ? if it 's er a sort of full removal you 're doing , you say Well are you packing or are n't you ? |
| 3 | And that should inform your thinking when somebody rings you up and says , ‘ My editor tells me that this happened . |
| 4 | announcement every time there 's a delivery and the brother who 's giving the announcements on a Tuesday or a Thursday , whenever they meet , he , he says that we have new magazines tonight brothers and he may hold them up and said you know , that they 're this and that and lovely , beautiful magazines Jehovah doing so well now through his organization and he 's presenting us with , with erm marvellous erm appealing literature , he holds them up and says we 're , we 're , we 're able to get your magazines tonight and er we would like you to get them straight out at me , and they 're still there two or three weeks later , your magazines , this is a way we can stay spiritually awake , is by going and getting them straight away , not for the benefit of the brothers , poor old brother who is on the job and he 's wondering why , are they gon na come and fetch my magazines or not , but because we need to devour that spiritual feeling , we need to keep up to date with everything that Jehovah 's providing us with . |
| 5 | Here 's another joke : ‘ She calls me up and says , ‘ Get over here . |
| 6 | And she phoned me up and says what are you doing ? |
| 7 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 8 | On the rare occasion that it comes up she kind of laughs it off and says well it was n't really a marriage . |
| 9 | I phoned it up and says the fella had been out , you know , they change , update it |
| 10 | He paced it back and says to me , ‘ Where is the ball ? ’ |