Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] say [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 2 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 3 | I think what they 're trying to say is if it was more localized it would be easier . |
| 4 | I think I think what you 're trying say is that the moon has come out during the day . |
| 5 | What I 'm trying to say is that while I do n't really like the shape and some of the other features on this guitar at all , and would certainly not choose to include them if I were designing an instrument for myself , it should n't matter . |
| 6 | Anyway , what I 'm trying to say is that I find myself looking around more . |
| 7 | Here when they 're talking about women , I think James was right , women do have a vital role at the beginning in all cultures , what I 'm trying to say is that they have a vital role increasingly as they become more and more educated too . |
| 8 | All I 'm trying to say is that the Brotherhood think they 're a law unto themselves . |
| 9 | What I 'm trying to say is that when two people who neither like nor trust each other are thrust together , then something 's got to give . |
| 10 | Right , but what I 'm trying to say is that you can dance them to them and by the way when are you thinking of having it done |
| 11 | What I 'm trying to say is that er Notts County supporters have got ta watch out for the other English teams ' scores rather than the Italian teams ' scores . |
| 12 | What I 'm trying to say is that it 's providing for people already here that I think should be a major item of population policy , and doing it not in a massive world sense , or even a country , but in particular areas as well . |
| 13 | The other point I 'm trying to say is that we have to insure with a Department of Trade approved insurer , so that should anything , for any reason , ever happen to ourselves or a company , then the insurance company is still responsible for the claims and will meet them . |
| 14 | What I am trying to say is that the anorexic has sufficient sense of identity to know that identity is something to be fought for — by whatever means . |
| 15 | What I am trying to say is that merely paying attention to sex difference — affirming that women exist and are different from men — is not in and of itself a feminist gesture . |
| 16 | What we are trying to say is that we do n't have to look to our mothers for everything . |
| 17 | ‘ What I was going to say is that it 's not working out , is it ? |
| 18 | Oh well er what I was going to say is that er I thought I 'd summed the person up that he 'd selected and I , I thought oh she i er it 's not gon na be easy for him , and it was n't , you know , she was a bit of a bit of a so and so I think really . |
| 19 | right , what I would suggest , is somebody take , what I was going to say is if you time me reading this , okay we get an idea of how long exactly we need to make . |