Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] say [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As it is now , HP claims 150 tpsA in a host-based configuration , peaking at at 303.1 tpsA , $5,913 per tpsA , reportedly a new industry price/performance record for single-processor systems , a factor it says is important to the single-stream and batch-oriented applications common in most data centres .
2 ‘ So this is the man you say is indispensable to us . ’
3 ‘ Oh , yes , work , ’ said Dr Neil in his rather hateful way , as though every word she said was dubious in itself , and , even though they were , Sally-Anne could not help feeling righteously indignant .
4 ‘ This was the kid they said was lazy and undisciplined . ’
5 THE IRA murdered a man it said was one of its former members yesterday and claimed he was a police informer .
6 RETIRED teacher George Calvert went to court yesterday to try to stop a noise he says is disturbing God 's peace — the local church bells .
7 Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ?
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