Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | she 'd had a talk with him and apparently he 'd said erm he said to her I 'm gon na be a good boy this time . |
| 2 | ‘ Ruination , ’ was all he had to say . |
| 3 | All he 's said is nothing . |
| 4 | He scowled heavily ; obviously he regretted saying so much . |
| 5 | So he said to say hello to you |
| 6 | So he kept saying , oh do n't bother going out tonight go after next Saturday for an hour like . |
| 7 | Well he thought your dad was buying that mould from Jim so he did say that , he , he 'd lent him that book on how to actually build them , but that 's |
| 8 | Christmas Eve and in he come said he got the , I , he do n't recognise , they do n't recognise him , he got like a black he says Ho , Ho , are you all behaving yourselves , Victoria sitting there giving it yeah |
| 9 | Elsewhere he has said , ‘ all that the concept of subsidiarity boils down to is an expression of the national interest of member states . |
| 10 | cos to be honest , the more Mike goes over there , the more he keeps saying he does n't really want to pull the picture frames down |
| 11 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 12 | Repeatedly he has said he favours internationally supervised elections , and that his country wishes to be non-aligned . |
| 13 | Now he does say he would you know he even thinks he could be a Gold Cup horse and emulate Dawn Run I mean again it 's it 's great claims this early on but er they would n't be running him if they did n't think he 's got a chance . |
| 14 | And now he 's said that to me I 'm not going to . |
| 15 | So far he 'd said nothing , and she found this more unnerving than speech . |
| 16 | he does n't actually say , well he does say the odd word if you listen carefully , of his own |
| 17 | Well he did say that the monster was rather large , he looked like a bird |
| 18 | Well he did say er , ours i your greens , your grass is greener . |
| 19 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 20 | Why could n't he have said she was his sister — or even a cousin ? |
| 21 | ‘ For instance , if someone had n't heard from a man friend for — oh , for a couple of weeks or so-when he 'd said vaguely he 'd ring — I mean , she might wonder if there was something wrong , if he was ill , or if she 'd offended in some way . |
| 22 | It is a form of brainwashing , or what that pioneer in the study of learning processes , Gregory Bateson , called corrective learning , that information-seeking activity whereby a person attempts to ‘ achieve a congruence between ‘ something in his head ’ and the external world … by altering what is in his head ’ — only in this case it is what is in Iago 's head , ‘ If thou dost love me ’ , Othello says to Iago , ‘ Show me thy thought ’ ; earlier he had said that Iago hesitated . |
| 23 | After a sex attack two years earlier he had said to the 40-year-old spinster that ‘ If you call the police I 'll kill you ’ . |
| 24 | Then he started to say something . |
| 25 | I said well thanks , I knew what he was getting at , I said I 'm not sure but then he started saying cos , well , you know , what , if you want somebody to go with you like , I 'll got , I started going up |
| 26 | Then he wanted to say that you could n't have bodies floating around but ‘ floating ’ , in the circumstances , was hardly the word . |
| 27 | And I said oh that 's right , he said and I , I 'd come up and see her the first we 'll either take her out for a drink afterwards , I thought that does n't seemed to mix in one glass , and I going to a pub because she 's , but there you are , and she so 's erm , can I bet you 'll stay a bit , she said oh , I think December is your like it to be , well obviously it 's getting him settled you must n't over , she must off pushed him and then he 's said erm , I , I 've told mum and dad that if they want to go as well , they can go . |
| 28 | It seems certain that Yeltsin will have won the trust of a handsome majority of those turning out to vote ; consistently he has said that this is the only question he would take seriously . |
| 29 | It seems that on reflection it was n't so much what Theo had said but how he had said it that had generated such despair and fury in him . |
| 30 | She knew , from how he had said , " there is nothing wrong with a comfortable life , " that he felt none of the revulsion she did . |