Example sentences of "say [be] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh we used to work er f er six days a week , er all day Saturdays erm eight to eight and er eight till eight at n at er eight till seven at night or er or eight till eight at erm most shifts was early , they used to have a a an hour er an hour break of a dinner time er sometimes they only used to have half an hour at night because , I mean well once you 've got er y y you was there , once you get you shift done it was no good sitting there doing for an hour and er it , it varies on what production what was wanted and how far advanced you was or how far behind you was , you know , but er the average hours was as I say was ten hours a shift that was working shift , you worked ten hours and then a break in between , ten minutes , half an hour |
| 2 | [ W ] hat a Constitution says is one thing , and what actually happens in practice may be quite another . |
| 3 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |
| 4 | Well most of them they saying are six contracts , now they say , say , six month contract or eight month contract or a three month contract , but I just had a couple that were like oh they could be a |
| 5 | No , what we 're saying is two things , firstly that we are not in favour of taxation for taxation 's sake |
| 6 | You see and another thing what they 're saying is thirty year ago when Labour was in , there were strikes and everything |
| 7 | What I want to say is one thing about the public 's perception of the political scene at the moment . |
| 8 | The move follows six months of negotiations during which the City of London , which owns some of the land on which the polytechnic is built , stuck out for a rent that one expert said was three times the market value ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 7 ) . |
| 9 | It was carved with very competent lettering , but all it said was 15 April 1945 and a list of names . |
| 10 | When the weather calmed her master spent several days trawling for the missing anchors with grapnels in what the charts said was 30 fathoms of water . |