Example sentences of "[pers pn] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the right hon. Gentleman does not accept what I say about industrial matters , he will perhaps listen to the head of the Swedish employers federation , who said that the Community should learn from Sweden : ’ It could above all avoid mistakes when it comes to regulations based on the social charter . |
| 2 | Early recognition as I say of mental illness in an employee and early treatment is better for both the company and the employee . |
| 3 | as I say of different people |
| 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 | Yolanda was a spotty , bespectacled girl from Barcelona who spent her time translating every word I said into Spanish for the benefit of Garcia , a missing-link anthropoid from one of your immediate neighbours . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Oh , yes , you could , you certainly could , and as I said for long periods , parental an and offspring self interest will overlap . |
| 8 | ‘ I do hope so , ’ I said with polite enthusiasm . |
| 9 | ‘ And I enjoyed every minute of the trip , ’ I said with genuine enthusiasm . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't … move … the arrow , ’ I said with terrible urgency . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's wonderful , ’ I said with suitable sanctimony . |
| 12 | Philip implicitly dismisses the value of his own reflections on the ugliness of modern London with off-hand self-ironizing comments which imply that he too is a product of the intellectual dissipation he criticizes : ‘ Life , I said with startling originality as I stepped out of the bus in my mackintosh , is like that ’ ( 307 ) . |
| 13 | " All right , " I said with false breeziness as I left . |
| 14 | ‘ They 'll take anyone who is n't blind , ’ I said with dismissive untruth . |
| 15 | ‘ No , thanks , ’ I said with noble restraint . |
| 16 | Cos I said to young George , his son , I said he came when I was painting the sills and I says what do you do when it 's frosty when you start to work ? |
| 17 | Well er I I said to young er what 's his name ? |
| 18 | The bull withdrew a bit , and I said to Merry : |
| 19 | ‘ Smith , ’ I said to Spindly Ginger-Nob . |
| 20 | I said to old Tip , ‘ That 's Arnold over there , ’ and he made himself known to him . |
| 21 | I said to Old Fishy do you have kids and he said yes they 're the apple of my eye and we just hugged each other right there in front of everyone and ever since I 've been wondering what it means . |
| 22 | Those eighty six , why did you say yes when yo when I er ho how did you interpret what I said about worrying ? |
| 23 | Well that 's what I said about bloody V A T for ! |
| 24 | The hon. Lady may not have heard what I said about Scottish Homes . |
| 25 | ’ Just barely , ’ I said through gritted teeth as I struggled to my feet . |
| 26 | ‘ I think I know why I flunked my exams , ’ I said between huge mouthfuls . |
| 27 | ‘ Sod off , Toby , ’ I said in friendly fashion . |
| 28 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 29 | Whatever you say about home-made porn , you ca n't really accuse it of propagating images that further oppressive sexual stereotypes . |
| 30 | That 's where we come in , ’ she says in hushed tones . |