Example sentences of "[be] saying [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear what you 're saying about bodies being sucked into walls … and sometimes spat out again . |
| 2 | No , but it 's what they 're saying to Fergie , is just go ! |
| 3 | It 's a plea which we suggest should make the timetable serve the child and not the reverse , and so what we 're doing is we 're saying to children erm ‘ Yes , you are of the same worth , you are of equal value , you should have the same care , love attention and the same resources ’ . |
| 4 | But iff you actually allow B R as an organization to bid , I think it 's making a nonsense of privatization because you 're saying in essence there is n't anything wrong with B R management at the moment and we 'll let them take over the network . |
| 5 | What they 're saying in effect is that they 're not going to entrust their latest toy to their closest ally because we 'd flog it to the first Russian we came across . ’ |
| 6 | I , I E you , you 're saying in effect that the government is taking all of the surplus from the , from agriculture ? |
| 7 | You 're saying in charge is sort of like , I am in charge which is like this . |
| 8 | Try to pick out the sense of what I am saying For instance , it so happens that my grandson , Henry now works in the Marconi laboratory . |
| 9 | POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way . |
| 10 | But what I am saying in context , no this has a deal to do with the co boundaries , as you know erm the honourable member well knows , the essence of this this is wholly inappropriate in terms of erm trying to latest citizenship through an arrangement of six additional boundaries into a erm union and a political state and I think that that is the profound objection that this side of the house has expressed over a long period of time now , is a reflection of the public mood in the country in respect of this election and the way the boundaries er are are erm apportioned and all I say in conclusion is that this is an evidence further of the irrelevance of this house in reflecting and attesting to public opinion outside . |
| 11 | I mean what you 're looking for is a reduction or what you would have liked to have seen a reduction in the land allocation for employment needs , and yet in the other breath you are saying to North Yorkshire , you should really cater for one hundred percent migration . |
| 12 | They are saying in fact that there is no truth outside or beyond the concrete historical events in which men are involved as agents [ and ] there is therefore no knowledge except in action itself , in the process of transforming the world through participating in history . |
| 13 | For this , work out what A and B are saying in John Wegg 's photo and put the answer on a postcard with your name and address . |
| 14 | ‘ I know exactly what they have been saying on TV . |
| 15 | Well I thought it was interesting , the boss said yesterday at partnership board , and I suspect he been saying with David , that erm you know , the gap in provision for careers education and guidance in North Yorkshire , is training teachers . |
| 16 | From what you fella 's have been saying about speeds form , he should be the man to drop . |
| 17 | ‘ As well I know , ’ he said , ‘ or I might be tempted to thrash that cur beside you until he is senseless for what I hear that he has been saying about London of me and mine . |
| 18 | You know what that ugly Jock 's been saying about Crilly ? ’ |
| 19 | What 's she been saying about Billy Rich ? |
| 20 | Jim McCarron , the committee chairman , said yesterday that Dr Forwell 's report underlined what politicians had been saying about Glasgow 's health record for a long time . |
| 21 | Well that 's what I 've been saying to dad as well , I said the times I said we 've had cheques come back ! |
| 22 | What have you been saying to Jenna ? |
| 23 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 24 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 25 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 26 | But I mean , one of the things that we 've got on with at the moment is that we 've been saying for ages , you 've got to get your you 've got to get us involved at design stage . |
| 27 | When Luxembourg finally admitted what many had been saying for years , that it wants a federal EC , British federalists tried to pretend that the Luxembourgers do not mean federal when they say ‘ federal ’ . |
| 28 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 29 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 30 | While the Council for British Archaeology 's Philip Thatz stated in an honest but politically inept way what treasure hunters have been saying for years that … |