Example sentences of "[pers pn] says [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says to the little kid , when nanny and mums do n't take , well I do n't anyway . |
| 2 | And I do n't care what she says about the wonderful home-style kosher cooking . |
| 3 | 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 … ’ |
| 4 | And then she says with a faint show of importance , ‘ Of course the people here simply love me for it . |
| 5 | You 're on , she says with a soft kiss and a quiet , urgent shove . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll take it , ’ she says to the old woman . |
| 7 | ‘ Rory , ’ she says to an elderly man sitting to my right , ‘ give the girl a chair now , wo n't you ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I have to go again , ’ she says in a whiny voice . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm exhausted , ’ she says in a low voice , her accent seriously French . |
| 10 | ‘ Corporate finance work can be stressful , ’ he says with a nice line in understatement , ‘ but my aikido provides a very good balance . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't worry , boy , ’ he says with a small grin , ‘ we 'll fix it in a jiff . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Clear , ’ he says with a broad smile . |
| 13 | ‘ So many stories , ’ he says with a puckish smile . |
| 14 | ‘ All our vehicles carry our flag to show we are a charity , and gunmen to show we mean business , ’ he says with a wry smile . |
| 15 | ‘ This way , ’ he says with a mock bow . |
| 16 | The fleapit at the centre of another Rose script , The Smallest Show on Earth ( 1957 , Big Time Operators in US ) , directed by Ealing 's Basil Dearden , is eventually burnt to the ground by its old commissionaire : ‘ It were the only way were n't it ’ , he says to the cooing couple who inherited the place in a town stinking of glue from the local factory , together with staff so lost in the past that they still enjoy looking at Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ The Rye . |
| 17 | ‘ I would n't be so cheeky , Paddy , ’ he says in a low voice . |
| 18 | ‘ Lucky fucking bastard , ’ he says in a normal voice . |
| 19 | ‘ Two Live Crew , ’ he says in a normal voice . |
| 20 | She hides a secret flaw — a slight indentation on the left side of her nose , he says in a new book , Look Like A Princess . |
| 21 | ‘ Yow want soom ? ’ he says in a broad Rummidge accent . |
| 22 | As he says in the following extract : |
| 23 | ‘ Hullo , mate , ’ he says in the English accent of his late father . |
| 24 | Right the sheets are coming round , when you get yours , your name on it and today 's date on it please , that 's all , I 've already punched holes in it so it 's ready to go in your file Now is there anyone who does not have one of these sheets , it says at the top year seven , module one , survey on belief . |
| 25 | That 's what it says on the bleeding sheet . |
| 26 | But they 've also pooled together in this single regeneration budget on , and er , as it says on the back page , all those other budgets which were all handled separately before , to create this very large pool of money that is available . |
| 27 | What it says about the young tearaway is even more remarkable . |
| 28 | Whatever it says about an achieved consensus on the slave trade , the 1814 campaign provides no support for a developing popular antislavery which incorporated emancipation . |
| 29 | And I think you can see why I call it pessimistic because , basically it says in the Anglican prayer book , there is no good in us , what 's in us is , is bad , in the sense of anti-social egoistic , and if people are going to cooperate and if there 's gon na be social order , then as it were , it has to be imposed on them . |
| 30 | ‘ It says in the Daily Mirror that she fancies me , ’ he boasts lightheartedly . |