Example sentences of "[pers pn] be say on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the sense that , in a way going on from what I was saying on the face of it south China ought to be the area where land reform will be easiest to achieve in the sense that here you 've got a society which is landlord dominated , heavily landlord dominated and therefore w where one would expect that the antagonism , antagonisms between landlords and tenants would be at their greatest . |
| 2 | His straighter , that 's far too many , let's have a look at what you 're saying on the phone , let's really , really home in on that , and practice , and practice , and practice . |
| 3 | What we 're saying on the whole is that we , we are moving south erm militarily we , we now control most of north China , we begin to move on to the into areas of very high tenancy where landlordism was thought to be at its extreme but all we 're doing is reducing rents and interest rents . |
| 4 | In case anyone should think that some of our commentary on IBM Corp and its problems is a little apocalyptic , hear what they are saying on the other side of the Atlantic : ‘ With IBM , there 's a question in my mind whether the company is going to exist five years from now , ’ Kenneth Heebner of Boston fund manager Capital Growth Management commented to the Wall Street Journal . |
| 5 | They say my accent is 'orrible , but at least I can understand what they 're saying on the pitch and suss out their Machiavellian little games . ’ |
| 6 | I ca n't understand a word they 're saying on the television and the streets of London seem to be full of people in tennis clothes . |
| 7 | They were saying on the telly |
| 8 | They were saying on the television the other day |
| 9 | He left during pre-production and it is said on the South Bank that nobody even dared tell Birt 's successor , the more ruggedly populist Greg Dyke , of the project 's existence . |
| 10 | It is said on the river that a Thames barge , once she has risen with the tide , never sinks completely . |
| 11 | Although the speaker is obviously not denying the fact that the Senate dared to criticize the National Film Board in this use , he is saying on the other hand that he would not have thought it possible for Senators to dare to do such a thing , given the sacrosanct character of the media . |
| 12 | Soon it would be said in England as it was said on the Continent , that a good Catholic is a man whose wife goes to church . |