Example sentences of "[be] saying that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock .
2 ‘ I 'm saying that I think you do n't care about the stupidities of convention .
3 ‘ I 'm saying that I think he could have done . ’
4 I was surprised by the number of people who were saying that they disliked him , and by the degree of bitterness and the spiteful determination that he had to go .
5 erm , so that if , if they then go to an appeal er , I was talking to this planning officer and I was saying that I think I 'll consult them , he said I do n't think you 'll need to he said , and of what you 've done so far is pretty good and I can get access to all the letters that have been written in , in objecting into the into the homes
6 we used to go every year be go round to erm for a bonfire but the old boy was saying that he said they ca n't afford it next year .
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