Example sentences of "[adv] say that i was " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , I thought , rather an excessively sympathetic comment — I had only said that I was very sorry that Roger [ Hinks ] had been transferred . |
| 2 | Well , I take as I find , and can only say that I was happy to do Toshack a favour a few years back when a friend , an international fixer with contacts in Portuguese football , rang to ask if anyone might be available to Sporting Lisbon . |
| 3 | ‘ I just said that I was having a drink with her to ask her what she would really like as a wedding present from the firm , because men are no good at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 4 | I enjoyed it , and you could hardly say that I was n't educated . |
| 5 | She also said that I was leaving her . |
| 6 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 7 | I got involved in that so that by mid-1977 I was performing in a play which was actually saying that I was gay . |