Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident took place in Spain.Those involved say the hotel was a death trap with fire exits blocked by furniture and an alarm system which failed to work . |
| 2 | SYLVIA MURRAY PHONED TO SAY THAT IN HER LETTER SHE HAS PUT MARCH 17 , AS BEING THE DATE OF THE NEXT RAUCS MEETING , WHEN IN FACT IT SHOULD READ WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH . |
| 3 | As they walked towards the altar , Sheila stopped to say hallo . |
| 4 | Reluctantly , and seemingly dimly aware of the importance of extreme secrecy , Johnny agreed to say nothing . |
| 5 | Many speakers rose to say that this was the first time they had actually met so-and-so , although they had spent hours communicating with them electronically . |
| 6 | I would think it could be helpful , now and then , to have simple explanations of some of the words used say erm where we 're building to a communion service , |
| 7 | Yes when you 're in bed it Ann phoned to say to say that she 's bringing and Ali around to play with you tomorrow afternoon . |
| 8 | " I 'm afraid I 'm being a bit of a nuisance , " Richard tried to say . |
| 9 | President Mitterrand seemed to say he was , in his emotion-charged funeral oration in Nevers on May 5th : nothing , the president declared , could ‘ justify throwing a man 's honour — and ultimately his life — to the dogs . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Ca n't you tell — ’ his eyes seemed to say , ‘ that I have already pressed it ? |
| 11 | ‘ Only ten ! ’ his big , grey eyes seemed to say . |
| 12 | Why would a man like him be attracted to a girl who , for a lot of the time , looked rather like a gypsy ? those cool green eyes seemed to say . |
| 13 | The fact that Marc had registered her exact words seemed to say that they meant something — that he had n't simply dismissed what she had yelled out from the shower , but that he had remembered and , as it seemed now , had brooded over them for some time . |
| 14 | ‘ Two months before the bullying started an appraisal seemed to say I could walk on water . |
| 15 | Recently in October 1976 , her sister living in America , asked for a photograph of the old building which 1 am pleased to say was dispatched and a reply received to say she now carries it everywhere showing it to everyone . |
| 16 | Madame Gautier looked up and caught Ellie 's eye just for a moment , and the glance seemed to say , See ? |
| 17 | Only one of the soldiers Dr Haritos-Fatouros interviewed said the use of torture was justified . |
| 18 | Nikos turned to say goodbye to some customers , flapped a cloth over the table he had emptied before turning his gaze back to Niall . |
| 19 | Donna turned to say something to him . |
| 20 | Before long , Maudie had a baby — and soon after that , a telegram arrived saying that Arnold had been killed in action . |
| 21 | A telegram arrived saying I was booked on a flight the next day , to be filmed at Pinewood Studios for the title sequences of the James Bond film ‘ A View to a Kill ’ . |
| 22 | Catriona started to say ‘ Not a lot ’ , in a sort of hard , youth-of-today voice . |
| 23 | Dot started to say , ‘ I hope I can bring my Dad down to visit you some day . ’ |
| 24 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 25 | Yeah , Lucy kept saying urgh ! |
| 26 | America might be a superpower , as the Iranians kept saying , but Iran — as Hakim put it — was a ‘ super religious power ’ , one that might easily find the pretext of some religious occasion to persuade Hizbollah to set the captives free . |
| 27 | Alexei , what my brothers meant to say is that they await your command . |
| 28 | He does n't like that at all — yet that 's what our heroic opposition managed to say , and not among themselves alone . |
| 29 | And Nichols kept saying , ‘ What are we going to do about his nose ? ’ |
| 30 | In the acquisition phase , subjects learned to say a particular noun ( R ) to shape A. The test showed that training in the acquired equivalence ( AE ) condition was more likely to produce generalization of this response to a B stimulus than was acquired distinctiveness ( AD ) training . |