Example sentences of "he [vb mod] say [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Last Trump sounds , the first thing he 'll say when he pops his head out of his grave will be where 's my breakfast ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not normal , ’ was all he could say when they let him out . |
| 3 | When I was a trainee my deputy fresh foods went it with me , and like he 'd sit there and he 'd say right this is how you do it at first and then he 'd let me do some and well I 'd do them and he 'd say why have you done that and I 'd tell him and then he 'd let me do it |
| 4 | He 'd say why ? |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 6 | ‘ So-and-so has a second-class mind , ’ he would say when we were first married , dismissing one of my friends or another . |
| 7 | But Molly knew he would say when they got home , ‘ For what I shelled out for the water we might as well have filled the loos up with Chianti . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Is that so ? ’ he would say when he had n't actually grasped a point ; or sometimes ‘ Quite . ’ |
| 9 | He would say how fantastically bad someone was and would say they had no talent whatsoever . |
| 10 | No one knows that p unless he can say how he knows that p . |