Example sentences of "[adv] saying that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Th the motion 's basically saying that we want to continue er our demands for harmonization of conditions pe irrespective of what peop jobs people do er in terms of negotiating , negotiating agreements . |
| 2 | Helen asked no questions about Chris , only saying that it had been a lovely evening and Moira was still talking about the tinned peaches and jelly . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not saying that we pretend it never happened . |
| 4 | Now I 'm not saying that we stand here and all we do is that because when you want to emphasise a point then sometimes a a single non-symmetrical a single hand gesture is more appropriate . |
| 5 | no , no I 'm not saying that we did , we did evolve |
| 6 | Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that . |
| 7 | I 'm not saying that she winds Daddy round her little finger , she does not . |
| 8 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 9 | Yes I 'm not I 'm not saying that I do n't think it 's a an important consideration . |
| 10 | We 're not saying that you do n't like that . |
| 11 | I 'm not saying that it achieved er a great victory |
| 12 | " I 'm not saying that it started off to be one , but in my view it became fraudulent pretty Soon . |
| 13 | I am just saying that we have no other alternative . |
| 14 | I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong . |
| 15 | They 're so bloody thick , they 're always saying that we dress like tramps yeah then why do they wear clothes with holes in them ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |
| 18 | and explain the situation and the court said oh well we 'll take it to the magistrate 's then , then he had a letter two weeks later saying that it 's been thrown out again , they have n't got a case cos she were in the wrong , she 's never , ever have gone |
| 19 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 20 | Feelings of guilt are really about a sense of unentitlement ; in thinking that your desires and feelings are wrong or ‘ silly ’ you are also saying that you feel you are wrong or silly , and not entitled to be taken seriously , or helped . |
| 21 | and I keep on saying that I 've said it like about so many things when we 're at home and she goes , what is this you always saying well with everything . |
| 22 | So what they 're now saying that you 've got |
| 23 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |
| 24 | It states : ‘ I received a letter from the chief inspector , Mr. Wynne Williams , today saying that he wishes to congratulate the managers on the new buildings , ‘ among the best in the county ’ . |
| 25 | We 're simply saying that it 's not been demonstrated that regeneration of West Yorkshire 's been taken into account . |
| 26 | then saying that he 's lost his sit down job doing nothing wrong |
| 27 | ‘ Champagne , hot scented baths , Sibelius , tiny kittens , very , very , very expensive underwear that you hardly know you 're wearing , and skiing at night and going into the big stores on fifth Avenue and trying on all the three-hundred-dollar dresses and shoes and then saying that I do n't like any of them — I do that quite often — and … ’ |
| 28 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 29 | The mutineers , all members of an elite scout-ranger regiment , marched to a nearby army camp , defiantly saying that they did not surrender to the government . |
| 30 | The mutineers , all members of an elite scout-ranger regiment , marched to a nearby army camp , defiantly saying that they did not surrender to the government . |