Example sentences of "saying it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the suspicion that he had something important to say and could not work around to saying it kept her out there with him . |
| 2 | However , the company took the sting out of a halved dividend by saying it thought the figures were the low point in its fortunes and the only way to go was up . |
| 3 | It came on a day of positive signs for the British economy , with the Bank of England saying it thought inflation would remain below the Government 's target of 4 per cent for the next two years , and cautious indications of a pick-up in high street spending . |
| 4 | Her hair was greying , and she refused to wear that seductive perfume he 'd bought her , saying it made her feel cheap . |
| 5 | This was true , in a way , and his saying it made me sympathetic and tearful , but on the other hand I knew that if I had told him , his attitude would not have been as indulgent as he was pretending now . |
| 6 | San Diego-based GTI Corp , majority owned by Telemetrix Plc , responded to a $1.50 fall in its share price to $21.75 on Friday by saying it saw no fundamental reason for it , adding that it expects to report ‘ continuing positive results ’ this quarter after four quarters of increases of 100% or more . |
| 7 | Having fallen sharply on Thursday , Lightship , the financial services group formerly known as Harvey & Thompson , recovered 7 to 73p after a statement from the company saying it knew of ‘ no justification ’ for the share price fall . |
| 8 | Stock was changing hands for as little as 14½p before the company put out a statement saying it knew of no reason , ‘ other than the general economic climate ’ , for the fall . |
| 9 | He welcomed the PAIN report , saying it raised issues to be tackled both locally and nationally . |
| 10 | Even if it was your they 're saying it belonged to yourself . |
| 11 | In an adjudication published today , the Press Council does not uphold the complaint , saying it represented a re-run of complaints made by the Lamplughs about Mr Stephen 's book and was likely to ‘ reopen and prolong a dispute which might be better left unpursued . ’ |
| 12 | In latter times , Philip II of Spain adopted the heraldic device of Bellerophon attacking the chimera , saying it represented the heretical England which he , also , intended to destroy . |
| 13 | One woman , remarking on ‘ how wonderful it was , with what faith the Führer spoke ’ , was reported as saying it took just such a speech to show ‘ how faint-hearted one had become through the routine of everyday life ’ , and that she could now look to the future with confidence again . |
| 14 | Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’ |
| 15 | The Foreign Office minister , Mr Francis Maude dismissed the Opposition 's bitter criticism of last week 's deportations , saying it came from those who could stand on the sidelines wringing their hands and decrying what was done . |
| 16 | His gentle manner of saying it robbed the remark of any reproof it might otherwise have carried . |
| 17 | Saying it 'd been a year when it 's been ten ! |
| 18 | The Open Software Foundation has been quoted in the US press as saying it shipped 85,000 binary versions of OSF/1 to developers and users last year . |
| 19 | Mr Nathan lamented the fact that for 40 years Israel had been saying it had no one to talk to and now that the other side was prepared to talk , Israel refused . |
| 20 | In his conference speech Mr Fowler attacked Labour 's reviewed industrial relations policy , saying it had one aim : to make strikes easier . |
| 21 | I 'm not saying it had such a positive effect on his career but it caused a lot of attention which he did n't buckle under , and I do feel a lot of people could n't have lived through that experience , but he did . |
| 22 | She admired his courage in clouting the skinhead but he spoilt it by saying it had been instinctive and now he wished he had n't . |
| 23 | Astonishingly he defended his policy of imposing sky high 36.3 per cent rates , saying it had cut unauthorised loans by almost a third in a year . |
| 24 | E&Y vehemently denied the allegations , saying it had provided adequate warning of the plan 's collapse , and claiming that the suit was filed in order to deflect criticism away from the insurance commissioner . |
| 25 | HDS declined to specify its installed X-terminal base , saying it had 200,000 units in the field , most of them serial terminals . |
| 26 | He drew back , saying it had nearly happened with another girl but she was a Catholic . |
| 27 | A Western diplomatic source was quoted by the Agence France-Presse news agency on July 31 as saying it had been a " dialogue of the deaf " . |
| 28 | Citibank issued a statement … this afternoon … saying it had no record of any formal offer from potential purchasers … its is always our policy to work closely with customers who have difficulties in oredr to reach agreement . |
| 29 | ‘ It was still tagged with notes saying it had been found round Stephen 's neck . ’ |
| 30 | Later , Fiat issued a statement saying it had learned of the arrests ‘ with great astonishment ’ but it is the second time the company has been involved in the ongoing scandal . |