Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [was/were] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | M sh you see that I was saying , to be a farm labourer in those days you 'd got to be a clever man , you 'd got to know how much wheat to shove to an acre , no waste , you see ? |
| 2 | We 've covered a lot tonight that I was saying |
| 3 | but you see there , that I was saying to Penny |
| 4 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 5 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 6 | It seemed that she was saying : ‘ Here I am and I will do whatever I must , attend functions , support the various trusts and so on . ’ |
| 7 | And then she said to me , and then , when I was going , she went to me , would you like to come on holiday , I went , then she went , because of me and mum and dad , we went another day to holiday , we went to beach , and er , mum said , that , yeah , mum said that she was saying , erm , to her , why , why is it not , what was it she said , about the weather , mum was moaning saying it was cold , and she went why , why are n't we go on holiday , mum , and mum said we ca n't , we ca n't afford to go on holiday , and she ah , why do n't we go to seaside when it 's cold . |
| 8 | ‘ What was that you were saying about guests of the Government ? ’ he added dryly . |
| 9 | ‘ What was that you were saying yesterday morning when you looked like death warmed up ? ’ he yelled , ‘ never a bloody 'gain , you said Tommy Handley could n't best that for a joke . ’ |
| 10 | Do you kn erm on the subject of I know last last time I came when I spoke to you that you were saying about you were saying about religion and it was and the fact that you erm go to church . |
| 11 | That you were saying your lecturer explained about one- one session in the first half an hour ? |
| 12 | Maelmuire has nothing to fear from you now , nor have I. What was that you were saying about the next generation — and where and what they would rule ? |
| 13 | Right , erm I 've actually got down that erm you assumed that his wife was n't a tax pay sorry , his wife was n't a tax payer and you assumed that she was n't working but you did actually pick back up on that later that she was n't that she was n't going back to work after having the children so erm tt that is now irrelevant but it was at the time that you were saying it , that you did n't actually pick it up . |
| 14 | Er , er my understanding to , to er about five minutes ago was that you were saying we have not failed to perform our legal obligations under clause nine , because clause nine er is either wholly or to be extent that it relates to the underwriting which we disapprove partially invalid out of being part of the erm , the anti competitive of erm the argument you 're pursuing . |
| 15 | And the whole thing was really a dismal flop because the context was so very different , the expectations were different , the kinds of things that you were saying . |
| 16 | They had realized that we were saying that lesbian and gay sexual relationships were as good as heterosexual relationships : they had realized the panic that this issue could generate . |
| 17 | And we were walking up and down on the beach at Aldeburgh and the most interesting part of our conversation was that we were saying we both started out as not conservatives , I 've never voted conservative in my life , but we started out as very loyal people . |
| 18 | So the conjunction of these two words effectively prevents the raising of the question as to what it was that they were saying . |
| 19 | Well , but we , no we 're not saying that , what we 're saying is that we so all we 're trying , w w w that they were saying we ca n't go from cap er from feudalism to socialism but we do n't want to go just from feudalism to capitalism , we want to go into er if you like a capitalism with socialist characteristics . |
| 20 | She felt I had something to say , a strength , and she was willing to staff to my weaknesses to make sure that it was said . |
| 21 | Edwin and Robert Grabhorn , who founded the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920 , worked so amicably together that it was said of them : ‘ When Ed 's away the shop goes to pieces ; when Bob 's away , Ed goes to pieces ’ ; but it would be a mistake to think that relationships between printers were always so harmonious . |
| 22 | He was so quick to forgive personal insults and injuries that it was said that you only had to injure him in order to have him as a friend for life . |
| 23 | A foreigner , and housed on the second floor of the hospital block in the cell that it was said had held the pilot Gary Powers and the businessman Greville Wynne . |
| 24 | It was , however , of great importance that it was said as clearly as it was by the Council . |
| 25 | ( " You have heard that it was said " was the traditional rabbinic formula for introducing their interpretation . ) |
| 26 | For his contempt in abetting such an action his temporalities were distrained until he did prefer the royal clerk — such a humiliation that it was said to have occasioned his death . |
| 27 | Later , in England , it occurred to her that it might have been said ironically , but by then she had forgotten the context and intonation of it , could only remember that it was said under hot sun outside the Maison Carrée in Nîmes , where the air was fluent and the stones shone . |
| 28 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |
| 29 | He added , however , that it was said to have broken up without achieving anything . |
| 30 | And you you will know as well in relation to Policy H one that it was said that if fact development housing development in particular 's kept pace more or less with the er the policy of er the the policy set out in the structure plan . |