Example sentences of "say that he [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 The liquidator , Chris Ashurst of Brighton-based Neville Russell , says that he is still looking for a missing £1m of stock and is keen to hear from anyone who bought OCT machines from anywhere other than the London direct-sales team , or the liquidators ' auction held in Bristol .
2 But Mr Soden says that he was only trying to look after his family .
3 He says that he was only pretending to go
4 I am afraid that he is getting very near to the Nuremburg defence of saying that he was only obeying orders .
5 On July 8 he was quoted in Berne as saying that he was still awaiting a response from opposition groups .
6 The court said that he was plainly soliciting their custom at a time when he was under a duty of fidelity to his employer and awarded his former employers damages .
7 Frank was successful in getting the job and was given a company car , an old Morris Minor , omitting to say that he was still learning to drive and wife Betty would always have to accompany him .
8 Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green .
9 He has the less scruple in issuing such orders because he can say that he is really doing what is in the man 's own highest interest .
10 He , he 's trying to make , he , he 's making him , you aggressive is n't he and I would say that he 's just thinking it 's low if I 'm going and this guy because , you know
11 Erm but he did say that he 's actually writing a leaflet which they can run to seven or eight pages .
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