Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] [adv] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | We we 've noted the way that every time there is a local issue about a particular road scheme , that the conservatives immediately say , we would have done that next year . |
| 2 | The second complaint made by the local authority is that the justices specifically said by paragraph ( 1 ) of their contact order that there should be no contact between T. and her father until after the local authority review in six months ' time . |
| 3 | But when I drove to London to collect her as we 'd arranged , I found that she 'd had a phone call less than an hour previously to say that Barney was ill . |
| 4 | When the whistle is blown again , the leader gives instructions such as ‘ hop ’ , ‘ walk backwards ’ , ‘ jump with two feet together ’ , ‘ run slowly ’ or ‘ walk again' until the leader eventually says ‘ Bus stop ’ when all the children must continue the way they are going until they reach the entrance to the bus when they go and sit down . |
| 5 | Clara , when the idea was broached , declared instantly that it was not worth her while to ask her mother 's permission , whereupon the school embarrassingly said that if it were finance that were in question , then help might be forthcoming . |
| 6 | I mean if the communists actually saying this is a force , I mean he , he says at the beginning |
| 7 | Each character must make an I test ( with a +10 bonus if the character specifically says he 's bracing himself ) or be forced down to the bottom of the stairwell . |
| 8 | But Mel got in the cab and the cabbie never said another word . |
| 9 | Yemen was already housing some 50,000 Somali and Ethiopian refugees and the authorities there said that their resources , especially health care provision , were overstretched . |
| 10 | It 's as if everyone else had given up and the Government then said , ‘ Oh , give the workers some money and let them have a go . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah , and the lady just said erm , do you wish to open that one , I said is that the right size ? |
| 12 | to other things , we 've kind of veered of the , one of the subjects that we were er , we did get onto which was how the police and the courts er handle er well victims and indeed criminals , I wonder if I might conflate erm both those groups into one question , its a very broad question , but I wonder if you think by and large the police do a good job , erm button one for yes and button two for no , erm and the majority here say yes , seventy seventy people say yes the , the police do a good job and since we 've talked about the courts do you think the courts do a good job by and large ? , we 've been talking specifically about erm some of the more bizarre erm statements that have come from the bench , particularly in with reference to crimes erm , that have treated against women , well now , seventy nine say no , so the police comes thumbs up , but the courts are way down , now not surprisingly there are n't many representatives from the courts er amongst this hundred |
| 13 | Takes more than a little snow ( like four feet of it in the suburbs ) to slow down the charging bull of Oracle Corp , and the company yesterday said that ‘ Through Rain , Sleet or the Coldest Arctic Snow in Century , the show will go on for Oracle 's Product Announcement of Cooperative Development Environment in New York City today ! ’ adding that ‘ If you are stuck on the sunny west coast attending UniForum , please join us for the delayed CDE announcement and demonstration . ’ |
| 14 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 15 | The news out of Marlborough , Massachusetts-based fault-tolerant Unix systems builder Sequoia Systems Inc continues to get worse , and the company now says that its audited financial results for the year to June 30 will reflect total revenues of about $65.7m as opposed to the $71.0m previously reported , and that the decline in reported revenues will cause the loss for the year to be significantly higher than the previously reported loss of $860,025 . |
| 16 | The minister and the priest both said prayers and traditional carols were sung with enthusiasm . |
| 17 | yeah but he do n't get done , he does n't get done , that is the problem , the kids do n't , I 've written a letter to Mr yesterday , why they were waiting for the games teacher he was hitting Geoffrey and he gave him a dead leg , kneeing him in the leg , he said before drama , he 's got drama tomorrow he says he hates drama because the teacher takes no notice , he said one week Stuart was hitting me with a stick and the teacher just said calm down you boys , and he was being hit with a stick oh no and this I find totally disgusting and I feel like complaining about this , one of the teachers and I do n't know whether its drama yeah I think it was drama and |
| 18 | Looking to , I 've referred to the possible changes and the recommendations really say that , at present there 's insufficient information and it 's against a background of very dramatic future changes in fire safety . |
| 19 | The Icelanders and the Norwegians simply say , ‘ Let's kill the whales anyway because they are eating our fish ’ . |
| 20 | A cock shouts " ruka-ruka-row " , a dog barks " duff-duff " and a cat simply says " meng " ! |
| 21 | It 's alright him having breakfast and an hour later saying mum I want me dinner . |
| 22 | I say Well I 'm very sorry sir , but the lady inside says y The what ? ! |
| 23 | The writer means that she or he has discussed the poem 's meaning , but the sentence literally says that the next stanza discusses the poem 's beginning ( an unintended meaning ) . |
| 24 | But the council now says it 's made Castlemeads safe and it 's told women they must start using it again . |
| 25 | But the Government today said the plans were too extravagant and the Council would have to cutback by £10 million . |
| 26 | ‘ But the staff there said he disappeared two days later . |
| 27 | Well Peter I 'm sorry but the notice only said once , Winston is meant to lead us into that I 'm sorry . |
| 28 | But the report also says , ‘ Doctors are not prohibitionists ’ , and points out that ‘ … findings suggest that abstainers do not necessarily enjoy better health than moderate drinkers ’ . |
| 29 | But the report also says Mr Warren risked his own life by assisting the trainer pilot and passengers to safety as the helicopter threatened to catch fire . |
| 30 | The pathologist had said it was at this stage impossible to give an opinion but the report also said the police were treating the case as murder . |