Example sentences of "[be] [adv] say that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm only saying that he might be . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm just saying that he is here . |
| 3 | He was ‘ permitted to put in a long day 's work for his Master , and it can be truly said that he gave his best ’ . |
| 4 | It is also said that he leaves the defence undermanned , but neither charge was proved on Saturday as Barcelona rode adversity in an absorbing match that emphasised , as one knew it would , how hurried and imprecise so much of the British game has become and how necessary it is that we cherish such exceptions as Liverpool , Norwich and Nottingham Forest if the art is not essentially to be driven out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He 'd walk me home from school and it 's often said that he carried my ballet shoes , which sounds kind of romantic , but he actually did sometimes , if I was carrying a whole load of things . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The person is implicitly saying that he or she subscribes to the network of rules of the discipline in question . |
| 9 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |
| 10 | It was widely said that he had long resented the Shah 's great oil wealth and the independence that it gave him . |
| 11 | If in other company , he was constantly saying that he was asexual , in the presence of Orton and Halliwell he was one of them — and wanted it that way . |
| 12 | Indeed , the Minister of the Legation , Captain ( later Sir ) Vyvyan Holt , was later to say that he would not have survived one of their many forced marches in intense cold had it not been for Blake 's courage and help . |
| 13 | But Dr was a good cricketer , erm he also wrote a very You could also read what Dr put , and he was also said that he sent people to hospital very quickly . |