Example sentences of "were say [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many rude things were said about Mme Cresson by opponents and rivals , but being a woman was not held against her , at least not overtly . |
| 2 | For example , when words which should have stress on the first syllable were said with stress on the second syllable , they were misinterpreted . |
| 3 | Two hundred Iraqi prisoners-of-war were said by Iran to have been released on Oct. 29 ; according to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) more than 20,000 Iraqis were still held in Iran . |
| 4 | Trade ministers from the EC , Canada , Japan and the USA , at an informal meeting in Urabandai , Japan , on April 25 , were said by Japan 's International Trade and Industry Minister , Kozo Watanabe , to have agreed on the urgency of resolving the impasse , but also failed to announce any breakthrough . |
| 5 | and they had to say which were said by men and which were said by women , and erm most of the ones with tag questions were said by women |
| 6 | and they had to say which were said by men and which were said by women , and erm most of the ones with tag questions were said by women |
| 7 | These words were said by Antoine Lavoisier in 1793 . |
| 8 | and they had to say which were said by men and which were said by women , and erm most of the ones with tag questions were said by women |
| 9 | from you and , and I was looking at that and ticking boxes and I was , I was almost not listening to what you were saying at times . |
| 10 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 11 | Right so at the point we broke off , you were saying about things that things have changed quite a lot . |
| 12 | I was interested in what people were saying about differences between feminism in the Western world and the Third World because I think Ireland epitomises that very well . |
| 13 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 14 | And tell me you were saying about harvest homes . |
| 15 | ‘ You were saying about Connie . ’ |
| 16 | But I think one of the things that men are afraid of is that when women get into the things the attitudes change , as we were saying about bigotry and religion and so on with football , I do n't think that men want that because this is the perfect club they can enjoy and indulge all that , but if women really get into it the thing will change as society does . |
| 17 | Now bearing in mind what we were saying about exchange rates before the break , if the pound was strong that obviously implied that people wanted to buy sterling , but what goods did they want to buy off us ? |
| 18 | You were saying about blues at er night . |
| 19 | ‘ What was that you were saying about guests of the Government ? ’ he added dryly . |
| 20 | We were saying about John , we was talking about John as well . |
| 21 | Yeah , the only other thing like when you were saying about site layouts , if there 's any maps that we need , and that 's including maps for coding , wall maps , you know , large scale . |
| 22 | Er now you were saying about crime in the area . |
| 23 | and they were saying about people with er , F M problems and they got a big coat hanger |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It 's just a special , because it 's a special fraction that we use a lot we just give it a special name and call it percentage , but any time someone says to you like er what 's , let's try this one , now you were saying about point seven five and things |
| 26 | Cos you were saying for example with the fact that the the flats they erm people what they actually wanted to buy from here , erm differed from what Yeah . |
| 27 | Erm so we were saying for example , and this is what we , we 'd actually come up with , the five days of the week , and the three categories of staff , I mean I 've just obviously put erm C L As are in either C L or E O really |
| 28 | I could n't understand what you you were saying to Iris though . |
| 29 | Well I s I were saying to Irene , I says did you ever get one ? |
| 30 | Remember what you were saying on Sunday evening — about misogyny , and the kind of attitudes instilled in boys at public schools ? |