Example sentences of "saying [that] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The nurses panicked and made me and the other mother sign forms saying that we definitely had our own babies . ’ |
| 2 | So if I can open the meeting by saying that we obviously welcome questions this evening and points of view and I would like to open the meeting by asking quite clearly about how you er see best plan for the theat theatre in future and how it 's programme of facilities for the future should be programmed and planned . |
| 3 | Erm we are saying that we certainly could n't go that far , maybe two hundred thousand but we would want to put it back so you will have an equal there in terms of spending . |
| 4 | We were saying that we though Miss looked like her . |
| 5 | Could it , could people please stop conferring a minute , er , that is actually the government , saying that they no longer gon na give grants , their going to give us the right to borrow , and are actually encouraging us to do it . |
| 6 | The International Herald Tribune of Jan. 22 quoted US administration officials as saying that they strongly suspected that Israel had supplied cluster bombs to the Ethiopian Air Force . |
| 7 | Nigel was saying that they only had a couple , you know , cos they like you |
| 8 | Neutrinos are hard to detect : they interact so little with matter that they can probably float through entire galaxies without being affected ; they exist but have no mass nor any other physical property , which is like saying that they simultaneously exist and do not exist . |
| 9 | Erm maintenance of the Road football pitch , we 've had some complaints er on the er Road football pitch which relate to the er caravan access , erm caravan use , we 've also had some er comments from the Pub , saying that they actually appreciate the caravans being in the area because of the increased trade . |
| 10 | are you saying that they actually deliberately were trying |
| 11 | But you 're given this very general instruction to begin with that yes we are returning to land reform and that the peasants are , are seizing land and this is what you should be supporting , and then when you come on to they , as you 're saying that they really are quite moderate . |
| 12 | I can say that reasonable safely and I can apologize to those people who put their hands up , by saying that I too am c am an accountant by background , and it 's fairly brave of me to admit that in front of so many I T people . |
| 13 | My first impression was how well everything runs and in saying that I really am paying a tribute to previous chairmen . |
| 14 | I want to begin by saying that I fully accept the criticisms that have been levelled , particularly against the quotation on the envelope , by a number of correspondents . |
| 15 | ‘ No , ’ he answered softly , ‘ I 'm saying that I now consider the IRB to be of only secondary importance . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The fact that in saying that you clearly mean to reassure me , ’ said Lydia , ‘ shows that you do not know me at all well . |
| 17 | Saying that you now ahm replace the bones of crippled fingers |
| 18 | ‘ I can imagine you saying that you really could n't tell her because you 'd entirely forgotten the incident — and if it had occurred it meant nothing to you . ’ |
| 19 | A newspaper interview with the very successful American actress Brook Shields quoted her as saying that she constantly worries ‘ that I 'm not pretty enough , that I 'm too fat , that I 'm not smart enough and that I 'm not a good enough actress ’ . |
| 20 | Foxy was saying how they were all standing on the balcony saying that she really ought n't to wear those shorts cos she 's got such thunder thighs . |
| 21 | Specialix also admits the move to Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4 has n't gone smoothly as planned , saying that it unexpectedly had to rewrite several device drivers for OEM versions . |
| 22 | From saying that a thing ought to belong to a man , that it ought to be used for his benefit , you come to saying that it actually is his , ‘ in equity ’ or ‘ in conscience ’ . |
| 23 | Nelson Mandela 's wife , Winnie angered the government by saying that it merely meant contemporary end to armed action and that the A N C reserved the right to reactivate its armed guerrillas at any time . |
| 24 | One might even argue that the monist , if he followed the logic of his position , would not be able to discuss language at all : if meaning is inseparable from form , one can not discuss meaning except by repeating the very words in which it is expressed , and one can not discuss form except by saying that it appropriately expresses its own meaning . |
| 25 | It almost goes without saying that he also had fine , Beatle-cropped brown hair and affected a close-clipped beard with the dense consistency of fur . |
| 26 | On May 7 Wörner was quoted as saying that he strongly favoured a " European pillar " within NATO and that the WEU would be an appropriate institution to embody it . |
| 27 | Alexander ‘ I am in control ’ Haig , Nixon 's last national security assistant , was quoted as saying that he sometimes had to act as president when ‘ Nixon was drunk . ’ |
| 28 | Well Jake was saying that he actually why you 're owed the forty five quid is he put us down on the wrong one with your . |
| 29 | Probably by saying that he only supplied what custom dictated as appropriate to the social status of the deceased , and that everything was done for the complete satisfaction of his client . |
| 30 | Chris had written a letter to Tina Jelly in Aldershot saying that he still loved her and missed her a lot , but was sure that until he came home she would be able to go out with his mates from the Royal Signals . |