Example sentences of "say [that] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might speculate further and say that they probably lived very close to the well because of the importance of water in the life of a Middle Eastern family . |
| 2 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 3 | Here the companies are now in a position to apply their mineral depletion allowance to 50 per cent of the value of their finished products — and they would be foolish not to take advantage of this measure — but the sentence itself does not say that they actually do so . |
| 4 | Other believing people will say that they really can not answer in that way because it does not seem to fit with other messages in the New Testament of people being held to account ‘ in the latter days ’ . |
| 5 | In fact we can say that we never need to have our own feelings if we can be sure that our nearest and dearest will express them for us . |
| 6 | Fraud may be difficult to prove , the person making the statement may simply say that he honestly believed , at the time he made it , that it was true . |
| 7 | I like her but there 's d did he actually say that he actually does n't like her ? |
| 8 | When I worked for the Daily Telegraph , the editor , Bill Deedes , would say that he never missed the letters column of the Guardian . |
| 9 | And we must certainly say that he never saw the issues of language and imagery which feminists today believe to be crucial : he evidently refers without second thought to God as ‘ Father ’ . |
| 10 | It has been argued by some that training plays no part in refining the skills of headship which can only be learned through experience ; presumably the proponents of this view would say that it also applies to officers . |
| 11 | Its proponents would say that it already deserves it , on the basis that the space station , though big , is not really science . |
| 12 | When they changed the deep litter did it erm I 've heard folks say that it actually affected the hens that they that they went cannibal and |
| 13 | May I say that I wholeheartedly support a big increase in the tax on petrol ( even though I 'm a motorist myself ) . |
| 14 | I wish I could say that I invariably carry out my own advice . |
| 15 | There is something so immovable , so enduring — yet I am perfectly aware that one day he will fall down — so mysterious about my old mate that although I ca n't say that I actually feel a surge of energy , I do feel some sort of ‘ reward ’ . |
| 16 | Before I ever had healing I was told that I might feel tingling or warmth , but alas , I can not truthfully say that I ever felt either , although of course , with hands laid on you , or just above you , there must be the sensation of touch . |
| 17 | But I could n't sa I could n't say that I ever worked on any of the big |
| 18 | I must say that I really enjoyed my time in the RAF and I 'm convinced that for National Serviceman , the Air Gunner 's trade was the best way to complete the compulsory Armed Service requirement of the time . |
| 19 | She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him . |
| 20 | But I can honestly say that I never worry about him now . |
| 21 | Sure , this is where I , this is where erm I must say that I never quite understood this , but if the prosecution witnesses , in their statements or in their oral evidence , refer to your client 's bad character , then that is inadmissible , completely inadmissible . |
| 22 | You , you did actually say that I only work on , yeah |
| 23 | I dare say that you too , Mr. Speaker , were inspired by all you saw , and of course you have visited them all over the years and have great experience of this subject . |
| 24 | ‘ I would say that you very much belong here . |