Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not saying to the politician , ‘ You must get your act together . ’ |
| 2 | I am not saying to the farmer , ‘ You must use fewer insecticides . ’ |
| 3 | I am not saying to the consumer in all of us , ‘ You must eat less , drive less , enjoy life less . ’ |
| 4 | Cos these are just say for her teacher . |
| 5 | You 're not to say to anyone , or I 'll kill you . ’ |
| 6 | But this thing we 're always saying about continuous jobs , is n't it . |
| 7 | We 're always saying to us what 's this down here . |
| 8 | Rough Trade , for instance , had to dip into the piggy bank to move into the American market , where they 're now said to be pulling out . |
| 9 | So how can you view the fact that somebody else is er , typing , or doing a transcript of er , what we 're actually saying on this tape , we should explain what grotting is , it 's most probably you know something that you do on a computer screen rather than if you look it up in the dictionary , what grotting actually means . |
| 10 | My mum and aunt are always saying to me , a white girl will first of all be engaged , then marry , then live in her mum 's house for a little while until they can afford the mortgage on their place , then buy a house , live there for a couple of years , then they 'll have the baby . |
| 11 | Many fund managers are still said to be considering their next move . |
| 12 | Notches on tallies were an early way of scoring in cricket matches , and people are still said to ‘ notch up ’ a good score , just as one can still hear a commentator say that a free-scoring batsman is ‘ in good nick ’ . |
| 13 | ( Chinese and Japanese mustards are also said to be strong , but I have not tried them . ) |
| 14 | Potential competitors such as the hot-shot Mac-to-Unix people at Quorum Software , who might eventually find their market niche too narrow , are also said to be watching . |
| 15 | deodorant , use fresh leaves in the bath water , or a decoction of the roots , which are also said to be effective in removing freckles |
| 16 | Ammonium fumes from the farms are also said to be damaging trees . |
| 17 | Early registration figures are also said to be disappointing for the banks and building societies which have set up share shops . |
| 18 | Such networks are also said to be active in the spirit of the application of the term active at the end of chapter 2 . |
| 19 | I know that such experiences are often said to be the result of the individuals concerned having read a book or article or seen a film or television programme about the particular place and then having forgotten that they have done so . |
| 20 | Er and similarly the syntax of languages are often said to be oppressive of women , a lot of the way that language is structured and a lot of the words that you get in a language , that 's another thing that 's said . |
| 21 | Football fans in this region are often said to the most fanatical in the country and so deserve teams among the elite . |
| 22 | ‘ Is that what the majority are really saying at your plant ? ’ asked Bunker . |
| 23 | Clark ( 1990 ) has recently referred to the ‘ myth ’ of the Anglo-Norman scribe and has collected a large number of comments from early in the century up until very recently from the work of distinguished scholars , in which attested forms are typically said to be ‘ Anglo-Norman ’ and therefore rejected . |
| 24 | Let us hope that the Danes will vote ‘ No ’ in their referendum on June 2 , thus forcing all members to renegotiate the treaty , as many of them are now said to be having second thoughts of their own . |
| 25 | However , its founders , Larry and Doug Michels , are now said to be reluctant because the future is uncertain — it 's a heck of a time to have to start posting quarterly reports . |
| 26 | Other US nuclear plants are now said to be studying their fuel pool cooling . |
| 27 | It is important , then , to establish what linguists have had to say and are now saying about literacy . |
| 28 | I said not that I 'm only saying like , I 'm only saying , passing on what he said I , not that you fucking crease me ! |
| 29 | I 'm not saying to you or any of the others , no I do n't agree with that as a , that 's for our debate later . |
| 30 | Mind I 'm not saying against it . |