Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I know when I feel happy I feel quite well ’ , while a 74-year-old farmer 's widow stated ‘ I 've reached the stage now where I say is n't it lovely and good to be alive , seeing all the lovely leaves on the trees , it 's wonderful to be alive and to able to stand and stare ! ’ . |
| 2 | So you 'll do as I say , when and where I say . |
| 3 | A note about effectiveness rates : where we say , for example , that a method is 98% effective — this means that each year , out of every 100 women using the method , 2 will become pregnant . |
| 4 | The concept would be difficult enough if it were only at this level , where we say that music , dance , painting , sculpture , poetry , drama , fiction , film have crucial properties in common , which suffice to distinguish them , as a group , from other human practices . |
| 5 | TWO Kurdish refugees will be deported this afternoon to Turkey — where they say they face persecution and torture — unless they win a last-minute reprieve . |
| 6 | For example , one of their star turns , David Swift , whose appearance in the first programme of the series staring out at the world through bright blue eyes beneath a battered trilby marked him out as a natural , recalls going to dance halls in the 1950s in search of girls : ‘ I mean there were plenty of songs coming out then where they say , Look at the way she walks . |
| 7 | Where they say they were . ’ |
| 8 | Im afraid its the usual pro footballer thing where they say nice things about the club they ve just joined . |
| 9 | I had started knowing nothing about houses , nothing about building , precious little about planning , and I ended up — although I say it myself — pretty well informed . |
| 10 | Although I say so myself , I am not without skill , having represented the county at schoolboy level . |
| 11 | ( I was getting quite good then , although I say it myself ) and I said : ‘ Now the King is here . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's done , and although I say so me'self , it 's one of the neatest jobs I 've ever performed . ’ |
| 13 | He did n't interfere here , Uncle saw to that , so I 've had a free hand in the shop and although I say it myself I 've made a go of it . ’ |
| 14 | What you might do , although I say you 'd reject this particular model and that |
| 15 | ‘ Although I say it myself , I 'm pretty good with a tin-opener . ’ |
| 16 | Although I say that this story could really happen , I doubt that there would be the character of Simon in reality as I think that a boy his age would realise the dangerous situation he was in , and join the other boys . |
| 17 | I no more say who I am in this case than I say I 'm off to my wife 's right in the lost-in-cloud case . |
| 18 | She do n't hear me , so I say it again , but she just unlocks the door and goes into her room . |
| 19 | I think it 's whisky or summat , so I say no thank you . |
| 20 | ‘ Mr Boulez has been associated with the project from the very first days so I say he can consider this house his home . |
| 21 | ‘ A woman might say ‘ Sorry we have n't paid because my husband has lost his job and I 'm unemployed ’ so I say ‘ OK , let's come to an arrangement , work it out . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ So I say unto you — count your blessings ! |
| 23 | or so it says here , so I say . |
| 24 | ‘ I talk to my friends and they say , you know , ‘ this is what you need to tell these folks ’ , so I say , ‘ OK ’ . |
| 25 | He chooses to tap his fag packet round and round on the tabletop again rather than speak to me , so I say , ‘ Well , I 'm not sure about that , but it 's certainly somebody who knows me ; I mean , I think that card with my writing on it proves that . |
| 26 | ‘ So I say also . |
| 27 | All I can think of is not wakening the baby , so I say OK and he goes ahead . |
| 28 | Talk 's still needed , of course , so I say , ‘ This was a different man , pappy . |
| 29 | I am conscious of the time , so I say only that it will be a sad day if the Government are allowed to change the legislation , not only for the miners and their communities or for those who , directly or indirectly , are involved in or seek employment in the industry , but for the whole of society . |
| 30 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |