Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say I 'll just unplug the wall . |
| 2 | They might well have done of course they might have refused it 's the B B C they say you ca n't have a bottle |
| 3 | Er , yes , well , I 'd , I 'd , er , I 'd like to make two proposals , first of all that we formally congratulate our officers for leading the team that er , put together this successful bid , erm , but I 'd also like to say something about these concerns about the boundaries because it 's Oswestry again , amongst mainly the sort of north of the county around Oswestry , which like with the rural development area , could be left out , and , of course , economic development does n't stop at a parish boundary people cross it , it 's part of their economic activity and erm , I know that some of the sort of proposed projects put together for the use of this five B money , er , around the Oswestry area , are extremely desirable projects , er , and are achievable projects , and it would be a tragedy if er , if they were , if , if we failed to achieve them because of er , a kind of a bureaucratic dotted line which say you ca n't have the money because you 're the wrong side of the line . |
| 4 | They say you ca n't teach an old dog new tricks , but I 'm living proof . |
| 5 | Some people say you can actually taste the clover in it . |
| 6 | They say you can still see a gap in the treeline where the Hurricane shaved the tops off what would then have been saplings . |
| 7 | ‘ We say we ca n't keep an eye on them all the time , but the girls are under strict control . ’ |
| 8 | Drinkers at Peter Kavanagh 's pub in Egerton Street , Toxteth , Liverpool , say they ca n't tell the difference between Harry and Johnny . |
| 9 | They say they ca n't discuss the case until the inquest is over . |
| 10 | Councillors say they ca n't afford the repairs which would cost three million pounds a year . |
| 11 | The people of both villages say they 'll also remember the 2 men who sacrificed their lives yesterday . |
| 12 | Yet even the cooperative farmers say they 'll now support the strike . |
| 13 | Factory bonuses have been replaced by compulsory pay deductions to buy government bonds , and many enterprises say they can not buy the bonds because they no longer have any cash . |
| 14 | Association chief executive Frank Clark said : ‘ We say we wo n't give in to the IRA and yet the police say they can not guarantee the safety of a manager at a football match . ’ |
| 15 | If you try and fudge it and set up three or four , say they can all discuss the same thing , you are building in the ability for major conflicts . |
| 16 | One possible pointer is that , when asked , people say it will not rise a lot . |
| 17 | But opponents say it will almost double the population of little Deadwood , sending property prices skyrocketing . |
| 18 | But academics at Oxford are outraged and say it can only mean a Jewish Messiah . |
| 19 | we have had a letter back and it 's exactly the same as I got when I rang them up , if they just say it must not exceed a certain amount and they wo n't be tied down to tell me . |
| 20 | Ri Rita said Ken said it was a Porshe , but when I asked Ken he said he did n't say it was a Porshe , he says I would n't know a Porshe if I 've seen one and I says yeah , that 's what Dave said , ha , ha , ha , cos you said oh Ken do n't know one car from another and , and that 's what he said |
| 21 | we were only thinking about it this morning and I says I would n't mind a break , you know , like , cos , I mean aunty Mary 's always inviting us , and , and we were talking about the cat |
| 22 | and prove our Thomas wrong , he says I 'll never have a decent car . |
| 23 | ‘ Anyone who says I wo n't allow the Press Council to play its proper role is crackers , ’ he added . |
| 24 | She says I ca n't get a taxi because I have n't got enough money cos I do n't get paid til the end of the month . |
| 25 | It 's just one , one of those many piec pieces of evidence you know so that the Freud you know like the great detective you know uses all these little insignificant facts and finally puts them all together and draws everybody together you know in the drawing room and says I will now reveal the murderer , you know Moses was not an Egyptian , sorry Moses was not a Jew he was an Egyptian . |
| 26 | My son , Ben , says I must not forget the illustrations by Quentin Blake — writer and illustrator are here a perfect match . |
| 27 | ‘ People have said I ca n't take the pressure , but things like this happen to me week in , week out . |
| 28 | She says she wo n't pay the money and will go to prison if she has to . |
| 29 | She 's resigned to spending this Christmas on her own … but says she wo n't let the matter rest until British Rail backs down . |
| 30 | She says she 'll never forget the robber . |