Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] say [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So it 's going over the same ground but from the different er different emphasis because clearly my mistake last week was to try and cram in too much and to erm assume that what I was saying about modern sex theory was erm self-evident .
2 ‘ But do n't you understand , I only want to help , ’ she was saying with bosom-heaving passion .
3 Obviously , single-syllable words present no problems — if they are pronounced in isolation they are said with primary stress .
4 Later , in England , it occurred to her that it might have been said ironically , but by then she had forgotten the context and intonation of it , could only remember that it was said under hot sun outside the Maison Carrée in Nîmes , where the air was fluent and the stones shone .
5 I mean I I would say that was an abuse of the position of power , because if he was Joe Bloggs in the street nobody would listen to what he was saying about electoral reform !
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