Example sentences of "they say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't always ignore what they say but I can say it 's a lot of crap . ’ |
| 2 | Interesting and significant not just in what they say but in where they are saying it . |
| 3 | The right one they say but the left one is |
| 4 | Ah I know what they say but do they come from |
| 5 | Look , if , if somebody charges you three hundred pound , and you say that 's too much and you complain and they knock it down to two fifty , but they say but we want you to pay fifty pounds on something else , extra , do you think the two fifty 's fair , eh ? |
| 6 | WE live at a time when reporters go to foreign countries where there is trouble and come back to write books in which they say that it was hard to make out what was going on . |
| 7 | They say that it wes the different claes that done it — the way the butler dressed — an it hed looked at the claes an taen a bad wey o the claes . |
| 8 | They say that at the moment of death the whole of one 's past life flashes before one 's eyes . |
| 9 | I 've had another word with Personnel and they say that even though I ca n't have any more full-timers , I can have a part-timer to help me with making the sandwiches in the morning and clearing up last thing at night . |
| 10 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
| 11 | I 've talked to some of my son 's teachers about bullying in schools and they say that these children whom no one has ever laid a finger on can not imagine the pain they inflict on others . |
| 12 | ‘ They say that it was a mistake that we had been told that the outbreak was due to Salmonella enteriditis , ’ she said . |
| 13 | They say that more of the therapy group were married , and married people with cancer are known to survive longer ; that help with pain control meant they were more likely to remain active and continue with exercise ; and that they tended to eat better . |
| 14 | This is what Fox and Lundman ( 1974 : 53 ) mean when they say that there are two ‘ gates ’ within police organizations which affect access — winning the support both of senior managers and of the ordinary members of the force who are the subjects of the research . |
| 15 | They say that gentile women who marry Jewish men become more Jewish than Jews . |
| 16 | In this country they say that if you do n't like the weather all you have to do is wait five minutes and it will get better . |
| 17 | They say that the police could stop the violence overnight if the Special Patrol Group was assigned to patrol the area , or if the Home Office made it sufficiently clear that this kind of activity must stop . |
| 18 | They say that ‘ changes in transport pricing and tax structures should be made which are more consistent with environmental objectives , ’ and suggest : ‘ A programme of action in this regard should be drawn up . ’ |
| 19 | They say that as the meeting was drawing to its conclusion , everyone was waiting for a certain person to utter a few graceful words by way of a thank-you to the summit host , Mr Mitterrand . |
| 20 | Publicly they say that ITV have acted within their contract , which was agreed by all 92 clubs . |
| 21 | They say that financial institutions ' troubled assets , such as loans for property and highly-geared companies , will take years to sort out . |
| 22 | They say that supermarkets will overestimate next year 's requirements and then force farmers to discount . |
| 23 | They say that fair elections in Punjab and Assam are impossible — and so the outcome will be decided by bullets , not ballots . |
| 24 | With this aim in view , he makes explicit that what the sceptics deny is the possibility of knowledge of ‘ the inner nature of things … what the things are in themselves ’ ; when they say that there is no criterion of truth , ‘ they are not speaking of what things appear to be and of what is revealed by the senses … but of what things are in themselves , which is so hidden that no criterion can disclose it ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ They say that because they 're not in the ring . |
| 26 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 27 | the foresters attach to come before them men who work in their own ground , making ‘ hoes ’ to sow corn , although the King had no demesne there : and they say that they have made waste and purpresture if they do not their will for having peace ; from each man holding land they will have the skin of a lamb or a farthing , and they say that is their fee . |
| 28 | They say that there are fish in baskets , and behind the longhouse a field of stubble . |
| 29 | This could be the year they do , though they say that around the Cam every year and have been wrong for 15 of the last 16 . |
| 30 | They say that the water may have to be treated with chlorine , blasted with ultra-violet light , pasteurised and given other treatments before it can be re-used . |