Example sentences of "say [prep] [noun pl] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
| 2 | There is no guarantee that what people say in interviews is a true account of what they actually do , whether they are intentionally lying or whether they genuinely believe what they are saying . |
| 3 | What it says about females is that they are a subspecies ’ . |
| 4 | Miller and Swift , for example , say that ‘ what standard English usage says about males is that they are the species . |
| 5 | Maggie thought back to what the WVS woman had said about locals being in a state of shock . |
| 6 | I remembered what Lili had said about brides being gift-wrapped , and thought of them in their boxes . |
| 7 | ‘ I hear what you 're saying about bodies being sucked into walls … and sometimes spat out again . |
| 8 | You heard what Giles said about vets being available all day and night . ’ |
| 9 | I know what I said about possessions being like leeches , but that do n't mean I 'll surrender them to a pair of punks . |
| 10 | In a few cases , staff and parents ' views were downright contradictory , for example , when asked if staff kept them fully informed about their child 's progress , a number of parents felt staff tended not to tell them about their child 's good points whereas staff said that most of what they said to parents was positive . |