Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] you say [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's easier than you said it 's more difficult than if you want to get clear recordings . |
| 2 | It 's interesting cos you said it helps people with mild depression . |
| 3 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 4 | Some groups of consonants sound similar and therefore could easily be misheard , they look different and feel different when you say them . |
| 5 | After all , if your order books are as empty as you say they are , then how can you lose ? |
| 6 | He began toying with a beermat while Rachel , emboldened by his leading questions about her , went on , ‘ May one ask why , if you were enjoying it out there as much as you say you were ? ’ |
| 7 | Are you always as fit as you say you are ? ’ |
| 8 | An average rate is probably somewhere in the order of ten to fifteen millimetres per hundred years , which probably does n't seem very fast when you say it in terms of a hundred years , but when you think in terms of the length of time that landscapes have been involving , then erm you 've got to multiply it by centuries and indeed millions of years , and erm you can see that quite erm dramatic changes can occur . |
| 9 | If you are not sure about an answer , please do not guess , tell me you are not sure before you say it . |
| 10 | In fact , you can reveal all — your idiotic fears , your justifiable fears , your worst-case fantasies — as long as you say it right . |
| 11 | ‘ The dole do n't even give you payments any more if you say you 're a musician , ’ Carl says , ‘ 'cos they 've said they 're not gon na fund the arts any more anyway . |
| 12 | He is evil when you say it like that . |
| 13 | Plus I already had that , plus I had another five I did n't tell you about , I had fifteen when you said you had fifteen , look , one there 's me first ten |
| 14 | ‘ It could n't have been entirely secret since you say it was reported in the papers . |
| 15 | ‘ And if you really loved Kirsty like you say you do , you would realise that for yourself ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ God 's teeth , no wonder you were so convincing when you said you 'd go against your family . |
| 17 | It 's , I thought it was odd when you said it . |
| 18 | Of the forty who said yes , what do you mean by that when you say you 're a feminist ? |
| 19 | My old dad got really wild if you said he was working-class . |
| 20 | If the message you sent her was as cryptic as you said it was and she 's still managed to get here , she 's smart enough to be a danger to us . ’ |
| 21 | it 's a bad as you said it 's a bad time to start driving now there 's an awful lot of |
| 22 | All we can say with certainty is that it would be the biggest man-made explosion in history , which does n't sound so bad when you say it quickly as I 'm saying it now . |