Example sentences of "saying that [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the judgement ( Jerusalem Chamber I February 1954 ) the Chancellor mostly backed bishop and vicar ; but ordered out the statue and the sanctuary bells and the tabernacle on the altar , saying that what was illegal could not be made legal by the bishop 's permission . |
| 2 | President Menem , who was not obliged by the Constitution to call an election , was reported as saying that one was not necessary since his brother was Duhalde 's " natural successor as established by the law " . |
| 3 | A colleague of Dr Maden 's is quoted as saying that nothing was done because ‘ nothing really terrible had happened … |
| 4 | My grandfather saying that everything was going downhill , my grandmother talking of progress , but neither expecting it for that year or the next , they did n't dream of real change , not in their lifetime nor their children 's . |
| 5 | I remember excusing this by saying that I was waiting for the police and that nothing should be touched until they had come . |
| 6 | I received a letter from the British Board saying that I was a possible selection for the European Cup . |
| 7 | I telephoned Capital Radio 's Helpline , saying that I was Linford Christie and needed help . |
| 8 | I left a cheque for the amount Trish had loaned me , plus a month 's rent in advance and a brief note saying that I was going to stay with an unspecified friend in North Oxford . |
| 9 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 10 | I got involved in that so that by mid-1977 I was performing in a play which was actually saying that I was gay . |
| 11 | ‘ I prefaced my suggestion by saying that I was an ignoramus . |
| 12 | Having looked at my passport , the Gendarme made a telephone call during which he turned to look at me , spelling out my name and saying that I was English and a former paratrooper . |
| 13 | None the less I had found the evening reassuring and felt no difficulty in saying that I was sorry but I was suddenly most awfully tired and if no one minded I thought I would go to bed . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't recall saying that I was . ’ |
| 15 | She wrote my mum a long letter saying that I was a Devil Child and the best thing my mum could do with me was have me exorcized . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 17 | He was right , a fire watcher came in saying that there was a stick of small unexploded bombs right down the Palace Road but that the junction of Munster and Dawes Road had had a hundred pounder and houses had gone . |
| 18 | COUNTY councillor David Clark warned of significant changes to bus services affecting Liss residents at the parish council annual general meeting last week , saying that there was bound to be some confusion for a time . |
| 19 | Coopers & Lybrand was most vocal on this point , saying that there was ‘ no point in pursuing the OFR as a set of recommendations that are extensive but non-mandatory ’ . |
| 20 | Both companies issued statements saying that there was no conclusive evidence that television could affect behaviour in the manner suggested , but Mrs Whitehouse has still claimed that the coverage in the following days had been considerably transformed , using ‘ stills ’ rather than action sequences , and long shots rather than close-ups . |
| 21 | You were right in saying that there was very bad press given to hormone replacement therapy in in the early days when they used very high doses of of er un er , of normal oestrogens and this caused an increase in the amount of end of uterus , uterine cancer and this I think has generally er mo mo mo ruined the course for for the older doctors because they still think that it 's associated with an increase in cancer and they have n't got up to date to realise that the more modern preparations are not causing this and that 's where I think th the problems li lie . |
| 22 | If the court does not wish to intervene it can achieve this result by saying that there was no error at all , by characterising the error as one within jurisdiction , or by defining jurisdiction itself more narrowly than in Anisminic . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm saying that there was no real evidence against that as a possibility . |
| 24 | It appears to me , therefore , that he is estopped from saying that there was any valid consideration for the defendant 's promise . |
| 25 | Here he bade me stay , saying that there was only the laboratory overhead , and that he did not wish me to enter there . |
| 26 | One of the narcotics experts was reported as saying that there was evidence that provincial Army commanders were involved in trafficking heroin and that some senior military figures in Rangoon also had an interest in the drugs business . |
| 27 | However , the New York-based human rights group Middle East Watch was reported on Dec. 17 to have estimated the deaths at 1,000 and arrests at 5,000 ; its director , Andrew Whiteley , was quoted as saying that there was no wish to overstate human rights abuses in order to " whip up war fever " . |
| 28 | ( Amnesty also returned to an issue covered in its December 1990 report on abuses under the Iraqi occupation — see p. 37927 — saying that there was in fact no reliable evidence to support the claim that babies had died as a result of being removed from incubators by Iraqi troops . ) |
| 29 | On May 23 the head of the Hezb-e Islami , Gulbuddin Hekmatyar , rejected the UN plan , saying that there was no question of accepting a settlement under the Najibullah regime . |
| 30 | A report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of April 23 quoted one analyst as saying that there was " no love lost " between Than Shwe and Khin Nyunt . |