Example sentences of "[pron] say [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early recognition as I say of mental illness in an employee and early treatment is better for both the company and the employee . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I do hope so , ’ I said with polite enthusiasm . |
| 5 | ‘ And I enjoyed every minute of the trip , ’ I said with genuine enthusiasm . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't … move … the arrow , ’ I said with terrible urgency . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's wonderful , ’ I said with suitable sanctimony . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | " All right , " I said with false breeziness as I left . |
| 10 | ‘ They 'll take anyone who is n't blind , ’ I said with dismissive untruth . |
| 11 | ‘ No , thanks , ’ I said with noble restraint . |
| 12 | ‘ Sod off , Toby , ’ I said in friendly fashion . |
| 13 | Mrs Hughes always had plenty to say about modern life and one pet grumble was the way grammar standards had declined since she stopped teaching the subject more than 50 years ago . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Whatever you say about home-made porn , you ca n't really accuse it of propagating images that further oppressive sexual stereotypes . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think I can handle any more shocks , ’ she said with taut bitterness . |
| 17 | Flavia turned away , took a few steps , came back and stood still : keeping her eyes on Andrée 's face she said with complete intensity , ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I really do n't know where you got the idea that I 've been avoiding you , ’ she said with laudable calm . |
| 19 | ‘ You could never break them down , ’ she said with tremulous bravado . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm afraid , ’ she said with admirable honesty , ‘ I missed it . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps he is , ’ she said with assumed indifference . |
| 22 | That can not be true , ’ she said with assured authority . |
| 23 | ‘ Listen to me , Harry , ’ she said with icy composure . |
| 24 | ‘ In my book , it is , ’ she said with absolute certainty . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , I 've already done that , ’ she said with cool nonchalance . |
| 26 | ‘ I wish it had n't ! ’ she said with equal bitterness . |
| 27 | ‘ You know I love you , ’ she said with childlike simplicity . |
| 28 | I 'm sorry if I 'm taking up your valuable time , but look on the bright side , ’ she said with unarguable logic . |
| 29 | ‘ Very well , Adam , ’ she said with exaggerated slowness . |
| 30 | ‘ Thought you would n't hold out much longer than five minutes , ’ she said with smug complacency . |