Example sentences of "[be] say [pron] [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't know what you 're saying we 're going to go to the shops
2 No what amazes me Mr Chairman is that here we are , we 're being cost conscious on every ground and we 're saying we 're making a statement that we enter into an exercise that we have no idea , we 're not asking for the actual cost , we are asking , we are asking you must of had an idea what it would cost or I feel Mr Chairman that that , can I put it mildly , lack of planning and certainly financial planning possibly
3 And they 're saying They are saying that we 're only ones they get pallets like that from .
4 If you 're saying you 're buying the butter solely for me , then I just want me solely to eat it .
5 So the thing you 're saying you 're saying that people
6 If that 's what you 're saying you 're missing or
7 As important as the , the erm subscriptions in the new union will be , I think we need to also address the fact that we are saying we 're gon na fall for members are n't we ?
8 That lady who won the pools and said she was going to spend , spend , spend , might have been saying she was going to You Know What , You Know What , You Know What , for the disapproval she found heaped on her .
9 She said oh been saying he 's gon na build one for five years but he 's never got round to it .
10 All that is except this one when it could be said he was dealing with a special case — of cutlery .
11 It can be said he was addressing a captive audience … of stooges .
12 I know , I 'm saying we 're trying to improve the strength but we still have
13 it moved somewhere else and I 'm saying I 'm looking at it
14 Can I just make one point Ken , cos you were saying they 're getting thirty odd million of er of a request of two hundred million .
15 they were saying they were gon na introduce spastic people
16 So you were saying who were threatening an injunction if you did n't go into Court ?
17 ‘ I joined the club when it was going into the Vauxhall Conference and people were saying it was going under .
18 It is said they were led along the secret paths by a traitor , these paths almost certainly being what we know as the Pilgrims , Way to Aylesford .
19 ‘ No , it is said she was murdered . ’
20 And my father 's said he 's going to help me with the fees , so it 's all going to work out . ’
21 IBM is saying it 's delivered a million copies of OS/2 and predicts it could reach two million by the end of the year : Microsoft Corp voiced scepticism about the number to The Wall Street Journal to which IBM VP Jim Cannavino retorted , ‘ A stork did n't bring [ the one million copies ] and I assure you I have n't cooked the books . ’
22 She 's saying we 're charging disabled — I do n't know where she gets her information from .
23 and yet she 's saying I 'm gon na make this a feature , I 'm having erm an archway over my Aga and erm , I mean she 's got a new carpet you know
24 Well it 's saying I 'm gon na rape your mom and
25 Oh , by the way , we 've got another one of your statues with no eyes in and everybody 's saying it 's made you go blind , know what I mean ? take no notice luv they 're only jealous .
26 Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals .
27 That 's to say someone is leaving and we are going to take that post out and put it into the food section , and on b , I would say to Matthew that before committing us to a budget of two and a half thousand against a background of ten percent cuts , I would suggest that the health educational help-line and their day-long courses for E H Os might be made good use of in the forth-coming year .
28 That 's to say I was going to — but … ’
29 Japanese producers of cars and many other products are in fact already behaving as if Fortress Europe is a reality — that is to say they are setting up full-scale manufacturing plants in Europe .
30 Whiskers are small single crystals of rather a special kind but ordinary sizable solids are what is called polycrystalline , that is to say they are made up of a.large number of small crystals fitting together in three dimensions like crazy paving or like counties on a map .
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