Example sentences of "say [pron] [vb mod] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late night I was in bed by twenty past ten , I was in bed and I say I must of been asleep by half past , |
| 2 | She says it used to be beautiful , but the rectory and the church are a disgrace . |
| 3 | We were just saying you ought to be good at that . |
| 4 | Government grant is distributed through a mechanism which is now called the standard spending assessment , an awful word , or phrase , but it is absolutely vital , and if you look at the standard spending assessment given to this county the government is saying we ought to be able to provide all the services for a total cost of eight hundred and seventy nine pounds per charge payer . |
| 5 | I said there must of been one |
| 6 | You were the one who said it ought to be eight o'clock . |
| 7 | People said it used to be lovely . |