Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] say [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly regulation of industry has the potential power to improve social welfare and to say we should abandon it because it may not always do so is nihilistic . |
| 2 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 3 | Then he makes up this funny word and says it 's the name of a disease by which his brain is rotting away . |
| 4 | ‘ At the station they showed me the machine with an old mouthpiece and said I would have to blow into that . |
| 5 | But last Wednesday , BNFL unveiled the completed plant and said it would recoup its costs in ten years and make a £500m profit . |
| 6 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 7 | In the film , The Silence of the Lambs , Sir Anthony plays the cannibalistic serial killer and says he fears that it glorifies violence . |
| 8 | Then , as now , each year could be defined by one king-hell slice of perfect pop that said it all . |
| 9 | ‘ The boy drove the whole way to Dublin on his half day to bring you home and then drove straight back and said you had to see another doctor . |
| 10 | I mean in the excitement of buying a car you 're not going to read the small print , you 're not going to read the little bit that says you must have the oil changed every three thousand miles and unless you do it within two hundred and fifty miles of that and not only that , you must send evidence of the service by recorded delivery to you . |
| 11 | Two people replied — a man who offered to take it away for a fiver and Mrs Morrison , who dropped in for a quick look and said she wanted something for her playroom . |
| 12 | ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years , ’ Benny said . |
| 13 | He prides himself on a forthright nature and says he has asked more questions than any other MP in the House . |
| 14 | Medics are keeping her under intensive care but say she is making satisfactory progress . |
| 15 | A man called Jack O'Malley who served in the British Army in Flanders as a captain got his old uniform out , dressed up half a dozen of his men as soldiers and went to Limerick Prison with a fake order that said they wanted Fitzgerald at Dublin Castle . ’ |
| 16 | If you make a statement which gives a stated time when something happened , do n't be vague or make it up , give the exact time or say you do n't know . |
| 17 | She felt so strongly about the situation she removed Christopher , now 13 , from mainstream education and says she is still hoping to have his LEA provision reviewed . |
| 18 | They had long hair and said they knew Jack Kerouac . |
| 19 | which one identifies , there 's a kind of feeling erm you know , we 're , we 're the members and there 's something special about us and er at the best we 're sorry for the non-members , we 'd like to have more of them and so we might proselytize and preach the gospel , you know you know throw away your idioms , become or in the worst possible way we might be an exclusive group and say we are , we are erm special , we are we , we know the truth and everybody else is infidels and you know they should be killed or driven out or or in some ways discriminated against because they 're wrong and we 're right . |
| 20 | So they call out the local Jesuit priest , he takes a good sniff and says it 's haunted . |
| 21 | Regional Magistrate Gerry Harty agreed that the firm had a good record and said it bought vast quantities for distribution to its various stores . |
| 22 | Hearing the Vice-President was downstairs and wished to see him , President Cormack walked through into the Yellow Oval Room and said he would greet Odell there . |
| 23 | Yet , faced with the necessity for resolute leadership , at this time of trial , Sir Patrick could only declare his satisfaction with the present policy and say he did not anticipate many changes . |
| 24 | He admitted driving with excess alcohol but said he should n't be banned . |
| 25 | New hardware technologies addressing emerging markets for personal and consumer-oriented digital image processing solutions will be spawned by SGI 's new digital sight and sound division which has taken the entry-level Indigo model and says it 'll work down from there . |
| 26 | They had gone all over the place ; peeking into the Oval Office ( but the little rope was across , Hakim said ) ; stopping on the stairs to look at a picture called The Canine Cabinet , in which North pointed out a drowsing member and said it was Casey ; and into the Roosevelt Room , where North showed the young Iranian the Nobel Prize won by Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating peace between the Russians and the Japanese . |
| 27 | Athelstan had hidden his smile beneath a stern look and said he would discuss it with the church council . |
| 28 | Dr Apps will be the main medical officer with the Arctic group and said he was well versed on coping with frostbite . |
| 29 | The 17-year-old boy who fired the gun admitted causing Nicola grievous bodily harm at Wakefield juvenile court but said he did not think the gun was loaded . |
| 30 | He told reporters he was overwhelmed by the unexpected prize and said he plans to donate it to the Prison Fellowship . |