Example sentences of "they say " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE live at a time when reporters go to foreign countries where there is trouble and come back to write books in which they say that it was hard to make out what was going on . |
| 2 | When they say this , they are apt to be called writers . |
| 3 | They say that it wes the different claes that done it — the way the butler dressed — an it hed looked at the claes an taen a bad wey o the claes . |
| 4 | An they say the butler wes gaithert up intae a white sheet aff the field . |
| 5 | I must say , I had certain ambitions for higher education myself , but when you receive the call , as they say , those cherished dreams just have to go by the board . |
| 6 | They say no , 'cause I 've got a police house . |
| 7 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 8 | There is a point in everyone 's life , he wrote , when all caution must , as they say , be thrown to the winds , all doubts stilled , when the most extreme risks have to be taken . |
| 9 | They say that at the moment of death the whole of one 's past life flashes before one 's eyes . |
| 10 | ‘ They say she 's the youngest prima ballerina ever to dance at the Coliseum . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ They say she is on borrowed time , ’ someone else said . |
| 12 | ‘ They say her family is being held hostage to her good behaviour . |
| 13 | ‘ They say she goes like a stoat too , ’ I said loudly . |
| 14 | You do n't think all those men downstairs are what they say they are , do you ? |
| 15 | Then , Speke , Porot , I pray you , full curtesly they say ; |
| 16 | Bouleversed , as they say across the Channel . |
| 17 | I mean , it 's like what they say , trouble always comes in threes , does n't it ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Every cloud , as they say . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ As I say , I 'll ring up the town hall and see what they say . |
| 20 | I 've had another word with Personnel and they say that even though I ca n't have any more full-timers , I can have a part-timer to help me with making the sandwiches in the morning and clearing up last thing at night . |
| 21 | ‘ An avocado in every orifice , so they say . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They say they have gathered in all who would come out from the north side down to Pitnacree , and the south side as far up as Kenmore. , ‘ The Grandtully crowd ? |
| 23 | They say he made a speech at Dull . ’ |
| 24 | He was never bothered to marry , or to do anything else very much , they say . |
| 25 | They say they will have the prisoners or they 'll cut you down . ’ |
| 26 | Some people impress by what they do , others by what they say , yet others by what they are . |
| 27 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
| 28 | They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end ( storage and retrieval in memory , for example ) , but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures . |
| 29 | — It 's no' as easy as they say to find work these days , even down there . |
| 30 | They are , as they say in the films , all he has had to go on . |