Example sentences of "say [conj] [noun prp] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sighvat 's poem is known to be incomplete , but surviving verses do not mention the battle , and Ottar the Black 's Knútsdrápa says that Cnut opposed or threw back ( hnekDir ) the Swedes there , and describes him as their withstander ( prengvir ) , neither of which is resonant of overwhelming victory , Indeed , if Holy River was known only from the Chronicle entry one would think it a defeat , but Ottar is unlikely to have included a famous reverse in a list of Cnut 's achievements , and the royal title used in the 1027 Letter ( see below ) suggests that he did eventually claim suzerainty over some Swedes . |
| 2 | It had been largely dormant since the late 1950s and during the communal violence of the summer of 1969 , many embittered Catholics had voiced their anger at its lack of action by saying that IRA stood for ‘ I Ran Away ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Longden said that Thomas lied because a mental hospital was ‘ much preferable ’ to jail . |
| 4 | Another way of putting this would be to say that Althusser demonstrated that according to the protocols of conventional logic , history is impossible . |
| 5 | I 'm fed up too but I suppose we should n't grumble , ’ Sarah said and Anne agreed that other people had worse troubles . |
| 6 | ‘ He is not a clever man , ’ her friend said and Dorothea recalled that she had said it before , anxiously , determined that Dorothea should understand but , nevertheless , accept . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've met your match there , darling , ’ he said as Kelly pushed and shoved the colt along , tying to keep him from stopping altogether . |
| 8 | But the thing that fascinated me last night was the statistic about Gillette do you know they said when Gillette started When Gillette started doing the erm Gillette Cup , it cost them five thousand a year . |
| 9 | Gloucester MP Douglas French said when Gooding escaped that Coney Hill was the wrong place to keep him . |