Example sentences of "say [conj] [pron] [was/were] [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 | It quoted a Polish couple who arrived in Hungary yesterday as saying that they were in a large shop on the main square when two or three thousand people began chanting anti-Ceausescu slogans outside . |
| 8 | The DTI objected to both the picture of Gazza and the reference to Armstrong 's suicide , saying that they were in bad taste . |
| 9 | Some gave him their life history , then came round to saying that they were in bed , in the back of the villa , in the bath , already gone to work . |
| 10 | ICI welcomed the new limits , saying that they were in line with its own aim of cutting discharges by half by 1995 . |
| 11 | ( 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 . ) |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | The Palestinian group refrained from approving the US plan , saying that it was for the PLO to do so . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Only two per cent said that they were at all dissatisfied with the arrangement : to put this in perspective , about ten per cent of buyers ( credit or cash ) were prepared to admit to being dissatisfied in some way with the goods they had bought . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , despite having thus declared its relative impotence , more than three-quarters of the teachers who had seen the booklet said that they were in favour of self-evaluation schemes of this kind . |
| 18 | Now , just over two years ago , when it was first mooted that the Rockhill site would become a permanent gipsy site , we did then erm conduct erm interviews in the town , and we interviewed something like two and a half thousand people , of which ninety five per cent said that they were against a site in that particular place . |
| 19 | Well David said that we were at the end , everyone believed that they were that the time has come that we was at the end of the world . |
| 20 | That waitress just came over and said that we were in love . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You said that you were in operational control . |
| 23 | She had gone to school in Scotland and in order to lull suspicion said that she was in Glasgow visiting an old school friend . |
| 24 | Although the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees put the number of Liberian refugees at 80,000 , the government said that there were at least 200,000 [ see also pp. 37174 ; 37644 ] . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He said that he was under pressure from his own supporters to change radically the government 's approach to the economic problems . |
| 28 | Zak said that he was in charge of the Angelica investigation . |
| 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 | He said that he was against that . |