Example sentences of "says [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I love ‘ em , ’ she says of her trusty collection of pedals . |
| 2 | She says of her new career that it is ‘ partly choice , but I wanted to leave school-teaching anyway as I had become disillusioned ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ A lot in it remains undiscovered , ’ Ian McDiarmid says of his current lead role in Volpone , the 1606 satire that is Ben Jonson 's most frequently performed play . |
| 4 | Leonard , one of seven graduates that year , was merely awarded the graduation certificate ; a sign , he says of his half-hearted application . |
| 5 | ‘ What did 'e get , son ? ’ 'e says with 'is dying breath . |
| 6 | ’ No kids , no heavy relationships , no sweat , ’ she says in her blunt way , curled up like an imp , smoking like a chimney , in one of her mother 's immaculate armchairs , a vision of bleached cropped hair , bright pink baggy cotton trousers , black eyes heavily rimmed with mascara . |
| 7 | Elizabeth says in her cheerful voice that will not be cheerful by nightfall , ‘ I saw the woman from Ty Fach today . |
| 8 | Yet Grigori Medvedev , the chief engineer at Chernobyl in the 1970s , says in his recent book ( see page 125 ) that Soviet-made Geiger counters registered high levels of radiation on men who had not yet been into the zone , and nothing at all on those who had recently emerged from it . |
| 9 | National librarian , Brynley Roberts , says in his annual report this is already causing storage problems . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've played in pictures like The Gauntlet where the woman is the smarter of the two people , it just depends on the project , ’ he says in his sole reference to 43-year-old Sondra , who co-starred in six films with him . |
| 11 | Swaggering is obviously best done in the full-length format , but tempered by the ‘ unique British context of compromise , Protestant seriousness and distrust of display ’ , as Wilton says in his eloquent introduction to the catalogue ( Tate Gallery Publications ) . |
| 12 | That 's what it says on his little card . |
| 13 | In this the woman inadvertently mentions God and says to her fellow passenger : ‘ Oh , I do hope you did n't mind my saying that . |
| 14 | ‘ Would n't it be terrible to be bad ? ’ he says to her right hip . |