Example sentences of "say [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say you can still see a gap in the treeline where the Hurricane shaved the tops off what would then have been saplings . |
| 2 | But academics at Oxford are outraged and say it can only mean a Jewish Messiah . |
| 3 | and prove our Thomas wrong , he says I 'll never have a decent car . |
| 4 | Theory says it will soon become a supernova , and though ‘ soon ’ in this context means within 1m years , no other star has been diagnosed as being closer to death 's door . |
| 5 | DEC has firmed up plans for its new chip plant to fabricate the Alpha RISC , and now says it will definitely build a $425m 526,000-square-foot research and manufacturing facility in Hudson , Massachusetts . |
| 6 | Ah went in to where John were working cos I wanted to borrow a spanner , he said I could just murder a cig and his , his mate said ah I could as well . |
| 7 | I take a deep breath , ‘ I said I could probably write a story about my own death . ’ |
| 8 | They said I 'd never make a manager . |
| 9 | ‘ The bugger said I 'd never make a businessman . |
| 10 | I I would even take I have to say I would even take a erm |
| 11 | fix the switch on I said you 'll never get a new one anyway . |
| 12 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 13 | The presenter said she could only recall a few people , and volunteered the story of David Parkin throwing a glass of wine at his wife and how she had watched Maggie Parkin stalk out of the room trying to pretend that nothing had happened . |
| 14 | And six out of ten of the companies that do not use PCs said they would never buy a computer at any time in the future . |
| 15 | So did Jim , although he said they 'd never get a word in if he came . |
| 16 | One of the high-heid yins wanted to have 20 gondolas , but another councillor said they should only get a male and a female and breed them . ’ |
| 17 | A I was going to say they 'd probably get a more realistic |
| 18 | ( I sha n't — he said he 'd rather have a drawing of mine , in any case . ) |
| 19 | He was asked this question abotu ten years after the book came out and he said he 'd never do a sequal . |
| 20 | Erm I did say we 'll just have a quick mention punctuation before we look at the maths . |