Example sentences of "[pers pn] say [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 2 | ‘ Called to see a friend , ’ I said with a dry mouth . |
| 3 | " Right , Mr Bailes , " I said with a twisted smile . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's an easy enough error to have made , ’ I said with a small smile . |
| 5 | " Ah well , " I said with a light laugh . |
| 6 | But , oh , Doctor , ’ I said with a happy smile . |
| 7 | Preferably the something , ’ I said with a hopeful smile . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's what I was hoping , ’ I said with a deliberate leer . |
| 9 | ‘ Excuse me , , I said to an elderly gentleman coming towards us , ‘ can you direct us to the Gypsy Queen 's caravan ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll have to eat together , ’ I said in a doleful tone which I knew would upset my mother as much as the vision which my remark would conjure up . |
| 11 | Outside Lisabeth 's door I said in a loud voice , as if talking to someone : ‘ That 's the trouble , you just ca n't get the staff these days … ’ |
| 12 | I said in a loud whisper . |
| 13 | I said in a quick voice . |
| 14 | ‘ Dawn , ’ I said in a hopeful voice . |
| 15 | " Right , mate , " I said in a menacing whisper . |
| 16 | As I said in a previous article , the Dinas Mawddwy Railway has been obliterated in some places much more than other lines I have walked . |
| 17 | ‘ I can handle Quigley , ’ I said in a steady voice . |
| 18 | ‘ Because I did n't feel like chatting , ’ I said in an amiable tone , ‘ I did n't feel like seeing anyone . |
| 19 | ‘ A good few thousand , ’ I said after a brief pause for calculation . |
| 20 | Just as you say to a small child , ‘ Keep on the path , ’ rather than ‘ Do n't go on the road , or Please can you talk more quietly , ’ not ‘ Do n't shout ! ’ so it is necessary to seek out what is good in any situation . |
| 21 | So that if you say to a primary teacher ‘ Here 's a new toy , here 's a new idea , why not try it ? ’ then they 've got the opportunity to do so without sort of dramatically changing things . |
| 22 | What you say during a political campaign is the concrete foundation of it . |
| 23 | I never imagined myself doing anything but acting , ’ she says with a wide grin and then breaks in to a quick burst of singing : ‘ There 's no business like show business … ’ |
| 24 | And then she says with a faint show of importance , ‘ Of course the people here simply love me for it . |
| 25 | You 're on , she says with a soft kiss and a quiet , urgent shove . |
| 26 | ‘ Rory , ’ she says to an elderly man sitting to my right , ‘ give the girl a chair now , wo n't you ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I have to go again , ’ she says in a whiny voice . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm exhausted , ’ she says in a low voice , her accent seriously French . |
| 29 | ‘ Patella nimbosa , ’ she said of a plain limpet shell . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , fine , ’ she said with a loud gulp . |