Example sentences of "[pers pn] say [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I speak on behalf of the Labour Party when I say that it is not , and never has been , the duty or responsibility of either a local or education authority to promote homosexuality ...
2 But I said that it is always a good sign when things go wrong before the night .
3 I said that it was all right , because I 'm not a Catholic either but if you wanted to talk , I was willing to listen .
4 I am in everyone 's bad books because I said that it was only a shop .
5 So , I gave you two examples and I said that it was often
6 I said cos it 's not very good
7 So I said if it 's only for a mile it 's going to be well less than a minute at eighty , presuming you were doing more than thereabouts and er that was it .
8 I 'm an ex-carer , and I looked after my aunt for three and a half years , and could I say that it 's not all negative although it times you could scream !
9 Erm , can I say that it 's only last year that we organised that video for secured car parks , and employed a blooming outside presenter to do it , and that cost us twelve thousand quid , and that were at Derby and they made an excellent bloody video of it did n't they ?
10 As treasurer of our appeal , may I say that it was very disappointing that , first of all , the council members and the town clerk did not accept our invitation to the opening of our appeal , on March 11th .
11 To Pamela 's disappointment she say that it was still the same red paperback .
12 The SLORC had repeatedly offered her freedom on condition that she went into exile , but Aris said that she never discussed this " because she says that it is not negotiable " .
13 She says that it 's more comfortable and she can sit up in it , rather than slumping as she did in her old one .
14 Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself .
15 Er are you saying that it is any part of the Council 's case that this land th it it 's it is er a possibility that having this land as a strategic reserve er can er is of assistance , or are you saying that it is simply er having included it in , it might form part of a strategic reserve ?
16 She said that it was increasingly important that people had easy access to information .
17 She said that it was partly because of drink — that all the Stavangers drank , and that her father knew he was drinking too much , but that he never drank at sea .
18 One of the handful of paid staff , a young woman of about seventeen , was full of energy and enthusiasm , but she said that it was very difficult to keep enough volunteers to teach .
19 I know what you said but it is n't even dried yet .
20 But just now you said that it is not something seen as just your problem .
21 That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war .
22 You said that it were n't on anyway .
23 So , are we saying that it is somehow abnormal or freakish to be able to stick to a healthy regime and remain slim ?
24 ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’
25 ‘ Tell Mr. McCloy it 's no dice , ’ I heard him say and it was then I said had he got a match ?
26 Professor Simmonds is correct when he says that it is very hard to isolate the part played by railways in the growth of towns and the development of the countryside from all the other economic and social factors of the nineteenth century .
27 He says that it 's not worth staying on if the place is going to be wrecked .
28 He says that it 's very spectacular .
29 He says that it was half it 's normal weight .
30 He says that it was very difficult to get some of the cows out , because they were so frightened of the flames .
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