Example sentences of "say that in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's very strict , ’ Vimla once told me , ‘ But they say that in her youth she was the best dancer in North India . ’ |
| 2 | And Herta 's glance sometimes , and her mother 's glance , and even her father 's glance , which is hard and countervailing , which is on my side ( but I do n't want it ) : these glances say that in my hands there rests a mortal and miserable power . |
| 3 | ‘ It is certainly true that in Western Ireland today you will hear those who say that in his teens William Joyce was a traitor who betrayed his own people to the Black and Tans . ’ |
| 4 | Schoener 's globe of the world then known shows Japan a few hundred miles off Mexico ; the historian López de Gomara says that in his negotiations with the Emperor Magellan always insisted that the Moluccas were ‘ no great distance from Panama , and the Gulf of San Miguel which Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered ’ . |
| 5 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 6 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 7 | So can we just develop that one says that in our own department they put it up on the wall so people complete it themselves . |
| 8 | At the same time , he did embody his own message , so that it could be said that in him , ‘ the divine appeared in as pure a form as is possible on earth ’ . |
| 9 | Whilst it would be desirable to integrate information on our illustrations resources , it must be said that in its current incarnation IMAGES is too cumbersome and complex for data input , and is unacceptably slow for search and retrieval . |
| 10 | It follows from what we have said that in our judgment the decision of the judge to stay the proceedings in the instant case was wrong . |
| 11 | ‘ It follows from what we have said that in our judgment the decision of the judge to stay the proceedings in the instant case was wrong . |
| 12 | It follows from what I have said that in my view the outcome of this appeal depends upon whether or not the court can look at Parliamentary material . |
| 13 | I 'm saying that in my experience there is too much argument and not enough discussion in processes of government generally , and I believe we would make more progress by a more discursive approach . |
| 14 | Indeed , the only real way one can pinpoint it is by saying that in it the notion of suspense , of repeated and ever-growing suspense , predominates . |
| 15 | The Labour leader said that in her supposed splendid isolation from Europe , Margaret Thatcher showed she was from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy . |
| 16 | Manu , the famous ancient Hindu law-giver , said that in her childhood the woman must be under the control of her father ; in her adult life she must be under her husband 's control and in her old age her son must control her . |
| 17 | He said that in her disdain for the laws of our land she had humiliated the honour of her family name ; there was no other course possible for her family to take . |
| 18 | GILLIAN said that in her opinion their was just as cumbersome and just as obviously diplomatic as his or her , but why was the meeting being so squeamish about making a point anyway ? |
| 19 | She said that in her opinion it would be desirable if Alice came in , as soon as possible . |
| 20 | Dottie 's feelings were seldom bruised by honesty — I simply said I 'd rather not and she said that in her opinion I was crazy , and that was that . |
| 21 | Questioned by Paul Cullen , prosecuting , she said that in her opinion the children had been injured by penile penetration . |
| 22 | Mrs Bottomley said that in her South-West Surrey constituency she had heard at first hand many stories of personal anguish , crisis and despair in the last hard year . |
| 23 | A Russian official in Moscow said that in their telephone conversation Yeltsin proposed a new agenda for relations with Clinton . |
| 24 | Lord Lane said that in its guidelines last July , the Appeal Court had fixed two to four years as the normal sentence for incest with girls aged 13-16 . |
| 25 | Chairman Cecil Robinson said that in its first 12 months the group collected furniture from 949 separate addresses and delivered 666 items around the town . |
| 26 | An Indian teacher said that in his school Asian children 's names were almost invariably mispronounced . |
| 27 | One of the psychiatrists I spoke to while preparing this book said that in his therapy groups for people with anxieties , he asked them to make lists of their day 's worries . |
| 28 | My informant said that in his view this was certainly not the case . |
| 29 | My mother said that in his South Yorkshire village Methodists had been looked down upon . |
| 30 | He said that in his opinion the lift had stopped due to the lift buttons being pressed rapidly and randomly , or through a mechanical fault . |