Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] say [that] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Well people have rung into this programme saying that they 've been put off visiting graves because this man is there .
2 A fortnight after being made a minister , this raconteur said that he had joined the Labour Party simply to make sure that ‘ they did nothing too silly ’ .
3 Forty-five per cent of this group said that they could not even make a guess at the likely interest rate .
4 Now that was her excuse but there is some evidence to say that she 'd got a big investment in weaving machine and I think she was a little bit worried er that these might take over from .
5 Nothing , simply nothing , is calculated to put a railway enthusiast on his mettle than for somebody or some organisation to say that something is impossible .
6 Today claimed malicious falsehood was n't an applicable action but the country 's number two judge vice chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls this morning said that it was .
7 Pam , most of the morning papers of course , have had er , glowing tributes , quite rightly so , to Danny Blanchflower , we 've had a lot of people on this morning saying that we 'll never see his like again .
8 He made his press speech this morning saying that she could n't even cos he thought that go down the hospital .
9 And this woman said that she stated no animals .
10 So I suppose I shall have to rely for my silver lining upon Carrie Schlegel of Capistrano Beach , California , who was kind enough to write to this magazine to say that I was God .
11 Analog Devices Inc and Crystal Semiconductor Corp this week said that they have begun selling multimedia coder-decoder chips claimed to offer highly integrated single-chip advanced audio system functionality , designed in conjunction with Sun .
12 And this man said that he was a lay reader , and that he 'd retired , he 'd come back from Australia , and he though that he would like to help out in the parish .
13 Another speaker said that our presence would only draw attention and suspicion to their villages .
14 The majority of offenders against this offence say that they forgot to renew their licence , which does not diminish their liability for this absolute offence ( i.e. not requiring any guilty knowledge or mens rea ) .
15 This report said that there should be no pay-TV programmes .
16 Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses
17 As one observer put it : ‘ The law of this land says that you are innocent until proven guilty .
18 One of the solictors acting for another trustee says that it appears Mrs Hilali has been living the good life .
19 Balfour came to stay at Petworth between the wars and I read a letter to him from another guest saying that she was sure that what they would both remember most about the visit was the intense cold of the house .
20 We do not want to say that one kind of state causes the other kind , but neither does it make much sense to say that they are ‘ parallel ’ or ‘ identical ’ .
21 The children who were with him that night said that you could hear his screams three blocks away .
22 The last superintendent said we ca n't and I think the point you 've raised is very valid since they actually stopped that facility said that they 're not allowed in there it has I think gone into a situation where it is n't a very quite place erm and there problems about what goes on there etc and I think need to look at it .
23 ‘ And have all society say that we are cowards ? ’
24 so I said but I 'm not disappointed but she said just listen to what I 've got to say , she said , erm , because anybody else that 's failed we 've just said I 'm sorry we ca n't have you , but she said with you , we all feel that you 've got so much to offer she said I 'm gon na offer you a relief post which means that you can go into other people 's ho er other homes , all around , all different hospitals if somebody 's short , they can call on you and I said could it be a full time job , will it give me enough money to say that I 'm working ?
25 And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time .
26 Add to this our initial difficulty in knowing what to recommend , when the very same paper said that there was no such folic acid supplement to give .
27 ‘ I do n't suppose it 's any use saying that I 'm sorry ? ’
28 The effect was instantaneous : Raby sent back a poem in the same rhyme-scheme saying that they could have their shelves .
29 This same executive said that he was against incrementalism in the sense that major reductions in assets ( or increases in asset turnover ) had to be achieved .
30 I think those are perhaps the hardest cases , where the parents are not able to cope because they just can not cope , they are subnormal , and you ca n't in any way say that they are to blame , they 're just totally inadequate people .
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