Example sentences of "be saying to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , but it 's what they 're saying to Fergie , is just go ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What have you been saying to Jenna ? |
| 4 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Many people at the church will be saying to Mrs Patient and her family , ‘ I do miss your husband , he was so good to me , ’ and whereas this makes the family feel warm it also makes them feel disturbed . |
| 7 | When you know what we should be saying to John Major and employers is that it is n't any surprise that er disablement er has increased over the last thirteen , fourteen years . |
| 8 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 9 | So I 'm saying to Graham , come on , we 're helping you , you are helping us obviously , I 'm not gon na deny the fact you 're helping us with our research . |
| 10 | which is not a very , but what I 'm saying to Graham is if we do it on a slip road like , cos , cos I 've never done one before , if you , you 'd have to have warning signs if you got a census on the slip coming off |
| 11 | I 'm saying to Glasgow city council that I think the reason for the poor health of its people is due to factors outwith health services and more to do with social and economic factors such as unemployment and bad housing . ’ |
| 12 | I could n't understand what you you were saying to Iris though . |
| 13 | Well I s I were saying to Irene , I says did you ever get one ? |
| 14 | ‘ I wonder , ’ Miriam Bernstein is saying to Jack , craning her head to look up at those same lights , ‘ if Howard and Felicity will be there … ’ |
| 15 | It was just that people saying things like that reminded me of one of my all-time favourite cartoons where Dr Watson is saying to Sherlock Holmes : ‘ But if you saw the conditions these Moriartys had to live in , you would n't be so quick to judge . ’ |
| 16 | But er I was saying to Mrs the other day , asked about Scott what the heck ! |
| 17 | Oh no dear , like I was saying to Basil , I do n't mind what people get up to . |
| 18 | ‘ Or take Baldwin , ’ Norman Ward Westerman was saying to Lord Boddy . |
| 19 | I was saying to Trevor it 's it 's not very nice but it 's rather so much better than than than having a cot death is n't it ? |
| 20 | ‘ You overheard what I was saying to Victoria , did n't you , Doctor ? |
| 21 | No I was saying to Carol I hope tomorrow 's the last . |
| 22 | Oh she said I 'm ever so sorry I was miles away , I said yeah we 've just said that , I said you never even heard us , so I said what you , you ca n't understand why you pay too much tax , she said no I know why I pay too much tax she said but more she said I used to be in business she said and I 'm on basic rate of tax , so I said yeah I 've had some of that , so she said what basic rate of tax , I said yeah where I 've come so , it 's a funny thing she said , I was saying to Carol the other day , she said erm , she said what a difference them blokes you work with , so I said yeah , I said I 'm always saying that about these so she said oh she said er |
| 23 | Anyway , erm Raymond was on the phone because he was tal and I was saying to Jim tell him I do n't want him to come if the ra if the road 's cut off to Blythe I do n't want him to get stuck , I mean , he 's got a wife |
| 24 | . Oh no , as I was saying to Reed the other day , er Reed has joined our class by the way . |
| 25 | Well I was saying to Alison , the only thing I can do is when I phone him |
| 26 | The reporter was saying to Boyd : ‘ Say , let's have a picture with you reading the manuscript . ’ |
| 27 | Mm , I said to Tony if we ca n't afford to go I said do n't worry about it , we might just go back down to where we went last year for a week because , it 's like I was saying to Joanne this morning , that this year they wo n't , they 're not gon na worry whether they do n't go on holiday but next year when Charlotte 's at school and got all her school mates saying oh where did you go and |
| 28 | ‘ I mean , ’ he was saying to Caroline , 'she 'd bring something to the table and I 'd have to ask what it was . |
| 29 | Erm and this is the reason why I brought this tape recorder , and I was saying to Bernard a moment ago , one of the most embarrassing things that can happen erm when talking to a group like this is when you pressed a button er whether it 's a , a tape recorder a video machine or whatever , you pressed a button full of confidence in all the latest technology and there 's an embarrassing silence . |
| 30 | I was saying to Pauline the other day , there 's some people you grow old with , willy-nilly , without noticing it — not that we are n't all wearing pretty well . ’ |