Example sentences of "say [pron] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say I am going to the bank . |
| 2 | Do I think I am going to the bank at the same time as I say I am going to the bank ? |
| 3 | But a cooker 's no problem because I know you can go into the Electricity Board and say I 'm moving into a new property , I have n't got a cooker and they would , you can get them . |
| 4 | Now what actually happens , now as I say I 'm going to the far end , your casualty may literally shriek as they go down , now this is the person that has no warning at all , they may shriek as they go down and it 's the air that 's coming out of the body , they will go rigid as every muscle clenches , the teeth clench , the muscles go rigid , erm and they 're going to be very , very blue because erm , because er they 've stopped breathing which seems like an eternity . |
| 5 | Say I was dealing with one of our gougers , I come down to [ his ] level . |
| 6 | Cos say I was looking for angles and that would 've just been fifty up here would n't it . |
| 7 | ‘ The Duke wants to marry his cousin , Princess Flavia , but people say she 's going to be King Rudolf 's wife and the Queen . ’ |
| 8 | You say she is working with the British ? ’ |
| 9 | Some say she is robed in blue , others in yellow and red . |
| 10 | Friends and colleagues say she was motivated by what she saw as cruelty in the meat trade . |
| 11 | As I say you 're looking at a |
| 12 | Because say you 're living with us , that does affect us . |
| 13 | Presumably when you do land in a position like that even though as you say you 're getting near the end of the game for the blue ball , you would n't deliberately not go through the hoop , if you 'll put in that , if you put yourself in that position ? |
| 14 | Say you 're sleeping in the front room , as soon as you turn the light out and there 's no sound they do n't shut up . |
| 15 | work out if you want to avoid a place , you can put , say , say you 're going from |
| 16 | getting , what do you call it say you been talking about me you know . |
| 17 | I can not stand it any longer , if someone does not come to me I will give up and be miserable for ever and perhaps go home of my own accord , write or wire to Uncle C. and say you are coming at once pleas darling , and come on Saturday or I will give up altogether and always wretched . |
| 18 | Yeah but like if wan na catch someone out , like you go say you were talking to Scott and I wanted to find out something and like I go Scott , and like I 'll be going up close to him , I 'm literally doing this , I 'm going Scott ? |
| 19 | Pat Ayers quotes one of those same street people : ‘ Just say you were standing on the corner , now if you had seen a policeman coming over the bridge … you automatically moved . |
| 20 | And say we are coming in no time at all . ’ |
| 21 | Erm as I say we are known in the village and this is , er this is what it 's all about . |
| 22 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 23 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 24 | Choking back his disappointment after his own team 's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa , he said : ‘ I 've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side . |
| 25 | On the trains no problems , East Midlands Airport say everything 's running to time , in the city centre no huge delays anywhere , on the motorways they 're all okay as well , on the A One there 's major work just started on the roundabout , that 's the er five lanes end roundabout affecting southbound traffic , there are long delays there in peak times , that 's at er five lane ends , the work there on the A One just started , that 's the Roundabout , southbound traffic is being affected , there are long delays there . |
| 26 | I think we 've got to draw the line and say there is going to be a cost to our econ our ecology , if we allow it to run in the way the government have in mind . |
| 27 | There 's bound to be something of , alright if I say there 's bound to be perhaps this year there wo n't but |
| 28 | Er it 's going to have er a circular area with benches and for shoppers can relax and everything but er unfortunately as you say there 's going to be three mature trees in the centre of St Peters Square will be removed as part of the opening up of the area . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's just that when you get two things happening like that , people say there 's going to be three , do n't they ? |
| 30 | Supermarkets themselves say they 're catering for increasing customer demand , customers too seem to reinforce that attitude . |