Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] say [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she said what about the bed at the Cottage Hospital ? |
| 2 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 4 | There was a survey once and it said everybody in the country has seen Marathon Man ! |
| 5 | The employee top 10 features those companies which are expanding fastest , and it says something for the performance of WPP that it has managed to perform well in eps and return on capital terms at the same time as it has achieved that expansion . |
| 6 | It takes a year to organize this grand event and it says something for the racecourse when the only thing that went wrong yesterday was the weather . |
| 7 | It started in 1976 and it says something about the timescale over which these sorts of things have to be planned that the first results of any value appeared 16 years later . |
| 8 | The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above . |
| 9 | They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end ( storage and retrieval in memory , for example ) , but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures . |
| 10 | But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one . |