Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [conj] say [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I make the point that if you do n't get to the parents of kids kids , before the end of summer term you could be jeopardising the chances of what they 're doing in the SATS because if you get to the parent erm in the beginning of the spring term and say you know , Fred is not doing particularly well because of this the parents are then in a position to do something about it but if you actually tell them once , basically the stable doors closed what can |
| 2 | He also describes the failsafe footrest and says it is required , then states the details of the relevant BS which calls for a full plate footrest . |
| 3 | What we have tonight is a labour group that says they no longer believe in that philosophy . |
| 4 | It 's just one , one of those many piec pieces of evidence you know so that the Freud you know like the great detective you know uses all these little insignificant facts and finally puts them all together and draws everybody together you know in the drawing room and says I will now reveal the murderer , you know Moses was not an Egyptian , sorry Moses was not a Jew he was an Egyptian . |
| 5 | They 've checked schools and housing estates in the Mansfield area but say they 've no leads . |
| 6 | They 've checked schools and housing estates in the Mansfield area but say they 've no leads . |
| 7 | The life president of Malawi , Kamuzu Banda , bowed to opposition pressure and said he would not insist on having two ballot boxes , one for yeses , one for noes , at next month 's referendum on whether to move to democracy . |
| 8 | John Major was asked about VAT during the election campaign and said there were no plans and no need to increase the rate of tax or range of goods covered . |
| 9 | Robert du Preez at scrum-half could take on anyone including David Bishop either in the boxing ring or on the rugby field and say what you like about Naas Botha , he is still the daddy of all the fly-halves . |
| 10 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
| 11 | At least have the honesty to admit it and not to vote for an a management initiative that says we 're gon na become an enabling authority and then it subsequently to deny every single measure that will allow that to happen . |
| 12 | Added to which , David had been interviewed by Melody Maker and said he was gay which gained a lot of publicity . ’ |
| 13 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 14 | He had served at the Khyber Pass and said he recognised the place at once . ’ |
| 15 | HUTCHISON Telecom yesterday made its entry into two depressed sectors of the telecommunications market and said its main assault on the mobile phones market is almost two years off . |
| 16 | Pioneer Sparc cloner Opus Systems Inc , Mountain View , California , is finally calling it quits with whatever remains of its Sparc clone business and says it is retracting back to its SparcCard PC add-in boards ( UX No 343 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's very flattering for me that in America people go to the Irish Tourist Board and say they 'd like to go to Mountfern or some of the other villages I 've written about . |
| 18 | No two days are the same for the Buildings Branch and says it 's the variety which makes his job so enjoyable . |
| 19 | The sergeant produced his warrant card and said he wanted to ask some questions . |
| 20 | He pointed at meat in a shop window and said it was good value . |
| 21 | Networx is venture-backed with funding from Vanguard Venture Partners and Paragon Venture Partners with a business plan that says it can be a $35m to $50m company . |
| 22 | Also yesterday , South Korea 's intelligence chief was quoted in the Chosun Ilbo newspaper as saying he had an intelligence report that North Korea had planned to conduct nuclear tests last year and had up to 22 kilograms ( 48lb ) of weapons-grade plutonium . |
| 23 | phoned up the funeral arranger and say my mum 's died , |
| 24 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 25 | At the very least this theory about post-natal depressions shows it 's not that simple , the mother has a self-interest as well as the offspring and our modern insight into parental investment theory shows us that we have to take every individual 's self-interest seriously we 're not committing th the , the crude errors of group selectionism and saying you know mothers exist for the benefit of society to have children , they should put up with it . |
| 26 | ‘ It is not enough for the Secretary of State to wash his hands in this Pontius Pilate way and say he has no responsibility for what is happening . ’ |
| 27 | But he criticised the file examination structure and said it was difficult to work . |
| 28 | The Education Department would not comment directly on the court case but said it would be the responsibility of head teachers and school governors to see that tests went ahead as planned . |
| 29 | With a great qualm mining at him inwardly , Cameron got up on a tree stump and said his piece . |
| 30 | He 's also the Education Secretary and says he ca n't comment because he 'll have to make the final decision . |