Example sentences of "say [conj] [pron] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
| 2 | His notes say that it was in 1924 , but it must have been sooner , probably 1921 or 1922 , because he was back in South Africa in time to get married in 1923 . |
| 3 | But coming back , we moved again as I say and it was in the er winter . |
| 4 | Bede says that he was in exile for the purposes of study and he subsequently described him as a most learned man ( HE V , 12 ) . |
| 5 | It might be said that it was in 1973 that Warrant Officer Dirk Coetzee 's real life began . |
| 6 | It is said that he was of a delicate constitution in early life , and was accordingly placed in the care of his uncle , Mr Greener of Hallgarth , near Winlaton . |
| 7 | ( Amnesty also returned to an issue covered in its December 1990 report on abuses under the Iraqi occupation — see p. 37927 — saying that there was in fact no reliable evidence to support the claim that babies had died as a result of being removed from incubators by Iraqi troops . ) |
| 8 | The next day all this was swept from their minds when a letter arrived from Eileen , saying that she was to be married by special licence . |
| 9 | A UK Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded on the same day by saying that it was for Iran to make the first gesture and that the UK would " not accept Iranian intervention in [ its ] internal affairs " . |
| 10 | The Palestinian group refrained from approving the US plan , saying that it was for the PLO to do so . |
| 11 | Igor Kasatonov , Commander of the Black Sea Fleet , refused to take the oath , saying that he was under the command only of the C.-in-C. of the CIS armed forces , Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov . |
| 12 | A DEC spokesman said that everything was in the early stages , and that he would n't like to comment on numbers — not even the 6,000 proposed lay-offs , although software engineering staff would be among the casualties , he also could n't say if they would be part of the wave of redundancies mentioned above . |
| 13 | She had gone to school in Scotland and in order to lull suspicion said that she was in Glasgow visiting an old school friend . |
| 14 | I begged not to go to school the next day , but Mama said that I was over my cold and that I would be safer at school in case her trick should fail . |
| 15 | Mr Scott 's removal from office was demanded by one shareholder who said that he was at the helm when the company 's finances went in to the red . |
| 16 | He said that he was under pressure from his own supporters to change radically the government 's approach to the economic problems . |
| 17 | Zak said that he was in charge of the Angelica investigation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He said that he was against that . |
| 20 | But Caspar , belatedly gallant , said that it was for him to lead the way . |
| 21 | But I just said that it was for the Welsh Office cos I thought if er they knew it was for a Authority you know ? |
| 22 | They said that it was of himself and that the parcel contained a gun which had been taken to pieces so that he could carry it inconspicuously . |
| 23 | He said that it was like taking dictation , ‘ as if I was ghosting for another man ’ . |
| 24 | They said that it was in everyone 's interest that he got caught . |
| 25 | The Saturday Review , presumably from the pen of Hope , said that it was in what it called the ‘ modern palatial Gothic ’ style : |
| 26 | So as soon as she said that it was in use Monday Wednesday I sort of |
| 27 | However , in Strange ( SW ) Ltd v Mann [ 1965 ] 1 All ER 1069 Stamp J said that it was against public policy to allow an employer to exercise control by way of contract over an employee 's skill and knowledge . |
| 28 | John Barratt , for that was his name , paid an investigatory visit to Coniston Mines , was impressed with what he found , and wrote on the 4th August 1823 to Lady le Fleming to say that he was considering taking the mine . |
| 29 | Their Lordships find it quite impossible to say that he was in error , and still less in the kind of error which would entitle a reviewing court to intervene , by making the choice which he did . |
| 30 | And Violet Hunt , loyally selling copies at half-price in her drawing room , confesses in her memoir I Have This to Say that she was at a loss to explain why the damned were damned , and the blest were blest . |