Example sentences of "[pers pn] say [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're such a stick sometimes , ’ Mandy said , but she said it with easy affection . |
| 2 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 3 | He agreed to the clause allowing them to release records elsewhere , after giving RCA the first option , because he say it as common sense . |
| 4 | Er it says something about human nature does this . |
| 5 | He said nothing of miraculous creation and instead proposed that the ‘ new ’ populations simply migrated in from areas not affected by the catastrophe . |
| 6 | He said it with absolute certainty . |
| 7 | He said it with extraordinary force , his face reddening below the dark skin and the eyes gone black again with anger . |