Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] said we " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ought to really , although I said we 'll leave them a lot of behind than the dinosaurs . |
| 2 | This year , I am being told that the test was not whether we could deliver our unprecedented number of detailed commitments , as I had thought , but whether we would do a lot more than we said we would do just a year ago . |
| 3 | We were afraid to tell Dad the exact truth so we said we 'd put them there to prevent them getting broken . |
| 4 | We 've played there before and there 's no stage , no PA , no nothing , so we said we did n't want to do it again . |
| 5 | I mean if , and if I said we 'll have , if I have the policemen down , and they say they can , there nothing they can do because we do n't know their names |
| 6 | Just like I said we would . ’ |
| 7 | like I said we at least to go on one complex exercise every month which , although they ca n't physically make you go on it there was , you know , they more or less made you go sort of thing pay to do and then we were there the other weekend we had one of these weekends where be more fun , really hard work though it 'll be more fun for |
| 8 | He wants he 'll send us a er a rough erm sponsorship form cos I said we could do it on the computer you know , the |
| 9 | Cos we said we 'd go to , for some time up to er , oh what motorway John ? |
| 10 | ‘ Who would believe us if we said we are changing our policy to win votes ? |
| 11 | If we said we were in favour of the teaching of grammar , some teachers would think we were advocating a return to old-fashioned exercises in parsing and clause analysis . |
| 12 | Cos i if we said we we needed it in order to get some of this money |
| 13 | Cos they , they did n't Jonathan cos he said we ca n't sell them . |
| 14 | no cos he said we 've got ta be quiet |
| 15 | ‘ Because she said we were in her house . ’ |
| 16 | So I bring it back because we said we would consider it further . |
| 17 | Well we did because we said we 'd have to specify what to . |
| 18 | It was just basically , one of those things , and Abbey paid out , because they said we would have done it , we would have accepted him on this anyway . |
| 19 | that 's a long time since they said we could have it . |
| 20 | As I said we may not have a set up but if we have n't we 'll set one now . |
| 21 | Yeah some things has , as I said we work off these er graph papers and they , they do them now by computer . |
| 22 | I managed to keep afloat then till , as I said we found this half a lifeboat and there was couple of fellows and er I managed to swim over to that and pull myself up on it and for there the inflatable off the standby boat came alongside , picked us up and put us on then standby boat . |
| 23 | As as I said we 're we 're not very formal but er you know that also has its especially if people that er maybe erm , how can I put it , are not used t taking everything back to a meeting and you know they maybe make a decision and go ahead with it and then it gets shouted at a bit but I think we we can all take being shouted at a bit as well . |
| 24 | But w as I said we did because we did n't have a pig . |
| 25 | to climb the stairs , and I think then you tend to panic a bit , I and I felt most of the time I felt fine , and then you see getting up at five o'clock yesterday morning , by the time I got off , it was your father that fell asleep on that last drinking session , but I mean , as I said we ai n't used to drinking in the day like that |
| 26 | As I said we can talk about half a dozen Adam Faiths . |
| 27 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 28 | ‘ Then , when you disinherited me on the spot — oh , I do n't blame you for that , do n't think it ! — when you said we might reap the just rewards of our flight and marry as paupers , he … he left me flat . ’ |
| 29 | When you said we 'll talk about that question last . |
| 30 | But when she said we were going by Concorde , that , to an engineering student , was it . ’ |