Example sentences of "[pron] says " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is n't better because someone says it 's better , or because there 's a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lords . |
| 2 | ‘ But why do n't you use the goddam bog ? ’ someone says . |
| 3 | ‘ Just like Sue , she does n't mince words , ’ someone says under her breath . |
| 4 | ‘ Just like Sue , she does n't mince words , ’ someone says under her breath . |
| 5 | Someone says something particularly stupid in a shop , or you wait half an hour in the British Rail canteen because someone ca n't decide whether they want some fruitcake or not . |
| 6 | HOW do you respond when , as he raises a glass to his lips , someone says ‘ Cheers ! ’ ? |
| 7 | Like when someone says that the records you love are just plastic junk and they are the sort of people who read and rake in all that shit in the daily papers , then it makes me think that my daily intake of media is far superior to theirs . |
| 8 | But the thing that always concerns me about these kind of decisions under those kind of circumstances is that it might be a temporary depression : in other words a suicide wish , and this is a terrifically difficult issue that is bantered about a lot under these kind of circumstances , and normally , if someone says ‘ Kill me , ’ you figure they 're crazy . |
| 9 | For example , if someone says that they did not have time to read the material and asks for a summary from the author or chairman , politely refuse . |
| 10 | Why then do we not take the same laid-back attitude if someone says ‘ I am in pain … ’ ? |
| 11 | Often , what someone says and what they really mean are two different things . |
| 12 | If someone says he loves God , but hates his brother [ or teacher ] , he is a liar . |
| 13 | If someone says he loves God , but hates ‘ Boggers ’ , he is a liar . |
| 14 | But today when someone says ‘ I believe so ’ , what he means is ‘ Yes with-doubts ’ . |
| 15 | When someone says , ‘ Does he drive ? ’ , |
| 16 | ‘ I strongly believe that if someone says to me , ‘ I 've had my house interior designed ’ , it 's just meaningless rubbish . |
| 17 | I mean , if someone says you 're beautiful or smart , you want to believe that they are a good judge of character , do n't you ? |
| 18 | ‘ But as soon as someone says that four-letter word , it will be ‘ do you have to use that language ? ’ |
| 19 | But to see what this talk of the linguistic expression ‘ replacing ’ the natural expression really means we must consider , in order to reject , the prevalent notion that if someone says ‘ It hurts ’ or ‘ I 'm afraid ’ , and they are not lying , then what they say must be justified by some observation . |
| 20 | When someone says ‘ Hey , you 're whining again' , you have to be able to say ‘ Thank you ’ , rather than ‘ Who the hell are you to talk ? ’ |
| 21 | Of Jesus Christ , someone says : ‘ We got ta find out where he holes up at night . ’ |
| 22 | When someone says ‘ We went to a bar and ordered a drink ’ , plain men and parsing specialists all agree that the sense of ‘ bar ’ in question is a drinking place and not a rod of iron . |
| 23 | Surely if someone says ‘ The earth is flat ’ that does not even begin to cause a belief to that effect in me , nor does someone saying ‘ Cruelty is a good thing ’ even begin to cause approval of cruelty in me . |
| 24 | When someone says ‘ It was the knave of hearts who stole the tarts ’ I agree with him or not according as to whether I believe that it was the knave of hearts who stole them , not according as to whether I believe that he believes that it was the knave . |
| 25 | Or if someone says What are you doing ? we can just answer Eating a mango instead of I am eating a mango because we know that I am is understood and does not have to be said . |
| 26 | Someone says , ‘ Ding , ’ and then it 's actually happening — sick old Muhammad Ali is really boxing . |
| 27 | So are you happy with that , that you can if someone gives you someone says Draw er a figure , er a regular polygon with twelve sides , you kn you know how to construct one ? |
| 28 | The big thing there is there 's no rule in life that says you know if someone says Five them you must draw five centimetres . |
| 29 | when someone says to you er thirty five pence please for a newspaper , you might not have the common sense to realize |
| 30 | I said , Oh do n't bother I always I always get people ringing up saying so and so 's mother or father says or someone says you 've been teaching them and can you take me or can you take my son or daughter and it always works like that . |