Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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31 well we say that but I mean they 're not really Derbies .
32 Well you say that but I mean there are plenty of other coal disposal facilities in the country .
33 Right , right , well you say that but it 's
34 she say that , and she say that and she 's always writing your name over the books and everything , okay , oh yeah , you must ask him if he fancies me and love him and ask him why he do n't he phone me that often , ask him that , you must say , right yeah , but do n't tell him that I told you to ask him , yeah
35 say that and you say , Well I do say that .
36 But I 'll say is it on the gardening page , is it on the letters page , pray for the sports page I always say and people look at me quite you know with a quite a look on their face when I sort of say that and I 'm absolutely serious , I 'll say you know if you get a four paragraph story on the gardeners ' page , you 're home .
37 Yeah I know , but there has ai n't there , you know but I say that and I live in an area where there 's not a neighbourhood watch scheme and I ai n't setting one up to until I retire
38 You smell that and it smells like sweaty armpits
39 I ca n't arrest you and say guilty cos you have to go to court , so you would always be arrested on suspicion of murder .
40 But why go to all that trouble to make a 2D character appear solid when you could generate it on a computer in 3D in the first place ?
41 Forget this and your report will fail .
42 I know I say this and I hear others , but I wondered how often the complaint was truly justified .
43 I say this because I have the feeling that you no longer wish to join your cousins in Wisconsin .
44 I say this because I am anxious that having decided to reject the modernist notion that there is no Devil — and therefore no Christian dualism — we should not be tempted to fall into the opposite error of conceiving our adversary as no more than a fiend .
45 I say this because I believe that those constitutional issues have to be decided once and for all at this year 's Party Conference .
46 The patients realise this and they do not expect any effective help anymore : medicines , sutures , needles are all scarce or absent .
47 Originally nine of them , now six , skip this if their images are as stamped in your Find as they are in mine .
48 The irony is that the others sense this but they too cover up that they sense it , and they too cover up their cover up .
49 Well er you know Tony says oh we want this and we want that he shall have to employ somebody to do , do them so there 's no , just get involved
50 Small disturbances grow bigger as they move east , steered by the long-wave flow .
51 They are a quiet peaceful fish and some say delicate but I have never found that to be the case .
52 But I shall never lead a normal life because I 'm so short — we 're both short — that 's why Tilda stands on the deck half the day , it 's because somebody told her that you only grow taller while you 're standing up .
53 Manufacturing companies must analyse the profits arising for their shareholders and report these as they occur .
54 The conventions say little or nothing about actual combat , and were seen as supplementary to the 1907 Hague Regulations , which remained in force .
55 It does n't get at what you want either but it 's one of the system that we 've got So if you write something th that you for a piece of , an essay that you got say a two one for and then you write an appalling piece , you might still get a two one for it under exam conditions
56 To equip this fish for its incredible journey across thousands of kilometres of ocean to its spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea , the eel 's eyes grow larger and their red pigments are replaced by a second type of blue pigments .
57 Will some of these carrots grow larger if we leave them till next week ?
58 Instead of maintaining the general domain of a text topic and preserving partial results to form hypotheses about new words and meanings , most natural language programs preserve little or nothing from one sentence to the next .
59 Co-ordinating deodorant , body spray and talc ensure that you smell good while you work on looking good .
60 We both just say stationary so you ca n't tell by the sound of it how you spell it ?
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