Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] say [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burden looked at him suspiciously , so he said with amused impatience , ‘ I do n't know , Mike , and I 'm not in the mood for this suspense stuff . ’ |
| 2 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
| 3 | Early recognition as I say of mental illness in an employee and early treatment is better for both the company and the employee . |
| 4 | Er so , that task , much of it under legislation , is carried out by fire officers and much of it as I say by good will and erm er advice to householders and bodies and erm big concerns and so on . |
| 5 | Somehow she managed a smile as she said with deliberate casualness , ‘ Sounds a wonderful idea , Harry . |
| 6 | She looked up , arching a brow as she said with false sweetness , ‘ Well , is there something else , then ? ’ |
| 7 | The icing on the scrummy cake is the brilliant pre-match options menu , offering the selection of your squad , any of the eight national teams , a full tournament , lots of control options , two-player games and , as they say in cruddy Christmas album adverts , much much more ! |
| 8 | Frost , one might think , righted the balance a little when he said on British television some years ago that diplomacy was : ‘ The art of letting somebody else have your way . ’ |
| 9 | Gus did not sound at all like a man recently revived from drowning as he said with sharp disquiet : ‘ Right , that disposes of how I got out , and I 'm duly grateful , believe me . |