Example sentences of "say [conj] [pers pn] [vb base] [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | People say that they have gone to Switzerland . |
2 | And er , nobody will phone you and say that you 've got to be here , there and everywhere . |
3 | Parishioners say if they want to speak to him they have to do so at the gate . |
4 | I said : ‘ Mrs Ledingham says that you 've agreed to something metal . ’ |
5 | so we staffed it but wi but we , but having said that we 've gone to Adwick |
6 | They have said that they need to listen to the voices of women and they are ready to do so . |
7 | In fairness , it must be said that they do point to other influential factors as well — to the need to raise the status and public worth of the teaching profession , to improve leadership skills among school principals , to restructure the curriculum , and so on . |
8 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
9 | Right , right I know what you 're saying and you 've got to be very very careful . |
10 | I could say that you 've come to the wrong place , but I wo n't . ’ |
11 | ‘ A second point , you are not conspicuously dandyish , indeed , I would say that you have grown to adult size with but little appreciation of the value of effective turn-out . |