Example sentences of "say [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes you would actually get , a magic E right , or a magic I making that vowel right say its long name , so it would be quite difficult to say dig giding |
| 2 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 3 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 4 | So we say its average speed is fifty miles per hour . |
| 5 | The newly unified front has little influence inside Iraq , but members say its mere existence will refresh the embers of anti-Saddam feeling at home . |
| 6 | The booksellers say its basic economics . |
| 7 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 8 | Mining engineers Meco , based at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire , say their world-wide business will cushion the effect of British pit closures . |
| 9 | But they say their real reward is knowing they 've helped to save lives . |
| 10 | German firms say their only hope of staying competitive is to cut production , and are seeking co-operation among themselves to do this in the the most effective way . |
| 11 | The police say their only lead is a vague description of a man seen running from the alley after the shooting . |
| 12 | They say their new ball is aimed mainly at the middle and high handicapper and , though nice and soft on the clubface , actually spins less because of the larger dimpling on the Zylin cover . |
| 13 | His division is a big supplier of factory painting machinery , particularly to car manufacturers , German customers — including Volkswagen , GM/Opel and Ford — have slowed investment ; managers there say their heavy involvement in eastern Europe is draining funds . |
| 14 | Airedale Regional Health Authority , with the backing of Tony 's parents Allan and Barbara , say his feeding tube should be severed and he be allowed to die with dignity . |
| 15 | Conference watchers say his barnstorming oratory 's been sorely missed . |
| 16 | COHSE researcher Steven Weeks say his main concern is that the schemes being marketed ‘ are not designed to measure the type of jobs nurses do ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ This is where I wrote ‘ Cop Killer ’ , ’ says my genial host . |
| 18 | Bill says their odd couple relationship works because they do n't have the normal pressures of married life . |
| 19 | But the local council says their present home breaks every rule in the book , and their plans would put an area of outstanding natural beauty at risk … |
| 20 | Their neighbours are all on the dole and they all talk about food : " I 'll say to them you ca n't be starving on Wednesday because it 's not Friday — giro day , " says their next-door neighbour . |
| 21 | David Lyles , the coach , says their winning secret is constant hard work and dedication and determination … they have problems finding enough pool time because there are so many clubs in Swindon but it is a nationwide problem because there are only two good pools in this country which is not a lot for fifty million people … |
| 22 | As her prize Trudie receives three thousand five hundred pounds but she says her real reward has been the satisfaction of knowing her efforts have helped others . |
| 23 | ‘ Lots of American women try to be like Cindy , ’ says her personal trainer Radu . |
| 24 | She says her ultimate ambition is to get that published too . |
| 25 | She says her only daughter was killed . |
| 26 | It would be up to the courts to decide on the matter , ’ says her local trading standards officer , Mr Slater . |
| 27 | ‘ It just did n't work out , ’ says her 34-year-old brother , Dave . |
| 28 | Goldman Sachs says its private-placement business in Europe has doubled every year for the past few years . |
| 29 | The noted cleric had lived in the nearby vicarage and some of the features of that property are reflected in Edelson House , says its present owner and one-time Darlington cricketer , Mr Richard Carter . |
| 30 | Hewlett-Packard Co says its new HP 9000 Series 800 Model H40 running Informix 5.0 recorded 406.65 transactions per minute ( tpmC ) at a cost of ownership of $2,786 per tpmC using the Transaction Processing Performance Council 's latest TPC-C on-line transaction processing benchmark test suite . |