Example sentences of "to say [conj] he is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fr Piet Leliveld , newly arrived in war-torn Sudan , writes to say that he is now in Omdurman , near the site of the famous battle of 1898 , waiting for a government permit to move to El Obeid . |
| 2 | An experiment run by Dr Ting is not a casual affair ; to say that he is strict is , he agrees , an understatement . |
| 3 | These embellishments are crucial , for they give rise to the two forms of the Shakespearian Equation : ‘ In the first form , the tragic form , the hero rejects the Goddess and is killed by the boar ( arriving as madness ) , which is to say that he is transformed by it . |
| 4 | He also became disenchanted with the amount of the correspondence ; his replies become shorter and shorter until , in September 1937 , his secretary wrote , " Mr Eliot also asked me to say that he is intending to write to you as soon as he has several consecutive free hours " . |
| 5 | Will the Prime Minister take time this week to write to the broadcasting authorities to say that he is willing to take part in a live , televised debate between the party leaders during the next general election campaign ? |
| 6 | The Secretary of State has been trying to say that he is a friend of the inspectorate , despite his proposal to cut it to a third of its current size , and he has created pandemonium . |
| 7 | It is extraordinary for the hon. Gentleman to say that he is worried also about the administrative complexity of our proposal . |
| 8 | Well they are not being granted more freely , th when a an an exemption is granted , the inspector , the inspector , who grants the exemption has got to say that he is satisfied that the health and safety of the workforce will not be jeopardized . |
| 9 | As for the patient , it 's not my place to comment on his medical condition , except to say that he is still quite definitely alive and in the best possible hands . ’ |
| 10 | He rang me up last night to say that he is more or less confined to barracks now in the evening now that Phil is home . |
| 11 | Yes , I 'd like to add one point , matters that the house continues in multiple occupancy and is successful at the present , and the landlord is not prepared to say that he is being now an agent of some hospital or other . |
| 12 | He is different , Florence Ames thought , he has n't anything to say because he is embarrassed to be with me . |
| 13 | In such cases it may be often difficult to say whether he is intended to be an arbitrator or to exercise some function other than that of an arbitrator. borderline cases identified above ( 15.7.7 ) , particularly the reference to experts of general disputes ( 6.9 ) . |