Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] they say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er , Danny says that they said that they were |
| 2 | Everyone will order me around and I will just have to smile and do as they say or they will not look after me when I am an old woman . |
| 3 | That 's it , that 's what I had they told and they said that it might be that she 's just , she 's just is small for her size , but it might be that Katie taken all the goodness from Hannah |
| 4 | place where they they were like getting er ones that had been smashed up , and doing and they said that the people that are doing it are top people ! |
| 5 | ‘ Do as they say and they 'll release me . |
| 6 | They are very good though , they come when they say and they , they d they do something about it |
| 7 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
| 8 | This is what Fox and Lundman ( 1974 : 53 ) mean when they say that there are two ‘ gates ’ within police organizations which affect access — winning the support both of senior managers and of the ordinary members of the force who are the subjects of the research . |