Example sentences of "says [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hear what the Minister says about regional policy in the past . |
| 2 | Erm now it says it says about Informed Consent forms . |
| 3 | Everything that Labour says about public spending shows that it is completely indifferent to inflation , which would have a bad effect on unemployment . |
| 4 | He says of carnal intimacy with a prophylactic that it is ‘ not so bad ’ . |
| 5 | And county consumer protection officer David Holliday says despite extensive publicity only a trickle of people have been using them . |
| 6 | After cautiously sounding our way over stones of all colours and sizes encased in the clearest ice formed by the spray of the waterfall , we found the rock … from the summit of which the water shot directly over our heads into a bason and among fragments of rock wrinkled over with masses of ice , white as snow , or rather as D. says like congealed froth … |
| 7 | On poll tax , he says with due modesty : ‘ There is nothing attractive in politics about the language of ‘ I told you so . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The reaction I got from the Twin Cities race was really out of proportion , ’ he says with appropriate modesty . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've had a good crack , ’ he says with unconscious irony . |
| 10 | ‘ All I have to do is get through the trials , ’ he says with ironic humour . |
| 11 | Miss B : ( Thinks , ‘ Inquisitive old so-and-so ’ — but says with charming smile : ) Of course I do n't mind , but that 's something I do n't discuss . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've had such a lot of fun with her , ’ Pauline says with obvious affection . |
| 13 | The argument says in pure training terms is that that one is the best , because it actually says that training will be able to complete the form . |
| 14 | Secretary of State Peter Lilley says in future help should be targetted at those with the greatest needs |
| 15 | But , the notebook says in legible writing , oaf was being investigated by the Microbiological Research Establishment at Porton Down . |
| 16 | Yes , erm , on paragraph three erm , the , the last sentence erm , where it says without direct access to its own balances , the authority may therefore have to make revised precept in ninety four , ninety five erm , I understand what 's being said there , but any organization needs to actually work within er , a clearly defined budget . |
| 17 | Opening the weather door 360 feet up and stepping out for the final 44 feet outside is , he says without particular emphasis , ‘ dramatic ’ . |