Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] say [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it says cars on that bloody little green bit |
| 2 | They take out anything that can identify you or me erm if you know if I said sort of George or gave an address or a phone number they that would be chopped out . |
| 3 | How would you feel if er a if I said sort of describe how you feel on a scale of one to ten ? |
| 4 | You know I mean I did n't think anything of it and I thought well I 'm a bit like that though too cos I say things about people and then I 'll talk to them |
| 5 | The problem is , the term Lamarckism has changed its meaning in the course of this century , and now Lamarckism , if you say Lamarckism to most educated people , the first thing they normally think of , is not evolution by will , or , or progressivism , but inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 6 | You know , if you say David in most places , it did n't have a hell of a lot of effect after all , he just came If you sort of mention , like , a name like Walls or Rennells , you got people with feet several , you know , feet off the ground . |
| 7 | Now that 's probably er one of the least well-defined areas for standards , and I mean if you say Edifact to er a North American user they 'll look a bit puzzled , if you say it to somebody who knows something about Edifact they 'll say , Which Edifact standard is that ? |
| 8 | So I said erm if we say increase to five pounds now , they do n't have to , but it means that they 'll probably have a significant unit holding , you know , to compensate them . |
| 9 | The oil company is in deep water for not taking part in a half-price fare offer — because they say people in Northern Ireland are n't interested . |
| 10 | I 'll tell you about Evan Roberts later , and there 's plenty to tell even to those who buy a magazine simply because it says Climber on the cover . |
| 11 | It would in fact be the first hot meal the Halflings had tasted in three weeks , ever since they said farewell to their kinfolk in the Moot and marched away to join the Emperor 's army . |
| 12 | They rest on an ‘ old mossy bridge ’ , probably at Holford , and listen to the singing of the ‘ merry Nightingale ’ , before they say farewell in the darkness and turn for their homes . |
| 13 | And this is what I meant when I said circumstances outside the school over which we have no control , they have no control … |
| 14 | The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected . |
| 15 | I have to say though that with the terms on which we 've gone into the European Monetary System , a six per cent fluctuation either way , which as I said means from two seventy seven deutschmarks up to three thirteen ; there 's quite a lot of risk there for an exporter if he prices himself in deutschmarks and he gets it wrong . |
| 16 | erm , my name 's from Edinburgh a couple of jobs one which is the sort of presentations I do tends to be one to one the hardest one for me as I say meetings with quite a lot of people there |
| 17 | When you say things like that |
| 18 | Those who saw her last television programme , A Winter Too Many , will remember the extremely poignant sequence — and the tears — when she said farewell to her ‘ family ’ , the beloved beasts , as they wended their way down the road from Low Birk Hatt to new ownership , led by the senior cow — ‘ Rosa , my lovely Rosa ’ — who had given Hannah the only available warm drink , her milk , and acted as a radiator when the power failed at Low Birk Hatt during the last savage winter . |
| 19 | So as you say years at I 'm |
| 20 | As she said goodnight to them in turn she managed by some technique of charm or pure personality to convey to each of them that they were important to her in their own light . |
| 21 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 22 | And I think when it says notes for supervisor , we can just put manager down there . |
| 23 | John Major was right when he said Britain as a nation should be more prepared to condemn crime , but wrong when he suggested we should be less concerned to understand it . |
| 24 | Darlington 's Liberal Democrat candidate Peter Bergg asked Mr Fallon to clarify what he meant when he said schools in County Durham were a ‘ dismal ’ choice for parents . |