Example sentences of "say that [pron] [verb] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company claims that customers say that they want to do their development at the workgroup level in an open systems environment , on a range of hardware and under different operating systems , and to share data in a decentralised development environment , rather than have it all tied to the Repository on the mainframe server . |
| 2 | We say that he has done enough damage in bringing about the birth of this child , in giving him a father who does not know he is his father , a mother who is so ice-cold a scientist that she willingly abandons her own child to the researcher in the laboratory , where he will inevitably be regarded in the same light as any other laboratory animal . |
| 3 | The fragment was must likely the left clavicle or collarbone of a hominoid , he said . Boaz says that he has done no more than suggest that the 75–5 mm bone , found in March 1979 at Sahabi in Libya , was from the ‘ superfamily ’ Hominoidea |
| 4 | He says that he has to do business with Foxhunters . |
| 5 | On hearing from a parent that : something was going on in terms of a library project , he proceeded to put everything into action and got the support of the governing body … saying that we wanted to do something with our library . |
| 6 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |
| 7 | A severe critic of the statutes of 1861 might respond to the question " Why did Alexander II free the serfs ? " by saying that he failed to do so . |
| 8 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 9 | ‘ We were under pressure from the Charity Commission to sort ourselves out and she said that she had done charity accounts before , ’ said Penny Boyd . |
| 10 | When questioned , Mason , the carpenter , agreed that it was he who had raised the flag , but said that he had done so because he had been prematurely informed of the relief of Mafeking . |
| 11 | Moreover since he did not wish to have preying on his mind any malice or grudge by reason of which his father might later be offended , he revealed that he had pledged himself to support the barons of Aquitaine against his brother Richard and said that he had done this because Richard had fortified the castle of Clairvaux though it really belonged to the Angevin patrimony which he should inherit from his father . " |
| 12 | Your colleague ? ’ said Pamella , bemused , trying to remember who Stuart White was , and then , when it came back to her who Stuart White was , and what he 'd given her ( £500 ) and what she 'd done ( which was n't much ) and what he 'd done ( which she does n't remember being precisely , exactly , what he later said that he 'd done ) she very rapidly saw what they meant , screamed , shut the door and hit the phone . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , he said that he wanted to do something useful with his life , seeing that it had been given back to him when he had n't expected it . |
| 14 | Will he also confirm that that is exactly what a previous Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer — the right hon. Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) — said that he intended to do during a notorious private briefing ? |
| 15 | And they , it basically says , there 's erm , replenish , or rotate stock , and they sort of tick or sign to say that they 've done it . |
| 16 | I only want him to say that I 've done well in finding somewhere for us to be ! " |
| 17 | The source says : ‘ She went on to say that she had done more for the Royal Family than any of its other members . |
| 18 | Mr Heseltine can reasonably say that he has done what the political reality required of him . |
| 19 | Except , of course , she could never — ever — tell them what that folly had led to — even if , looking back , she could now honestly say that she had done nothing to provoke it , that she could have expected anger from Havvie at her changing her mind , but never that he would do as he did . |