Example sentences of "say that [pers pn] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Watkins can say that he sympathises with green views on the need for conservation but has been overruled by the troika that presides over George Bush 's domestic policy : John Sununu , the chief of staff , Richard Darman , the budget director , and Michael Boskin , the chief economic adviser . |
| 2 | If he agrees that the position is as we think it should be , why does he not say that he agrees with the proposals in the Green Paper , which we intend to put into legislation ? |
| 3 | He did say that he disagreed with the choice of John Hill 's ‘ Karen ’ for first prize in the PORTRAIT section , he reckoned that it was quite ordinary and not up to John Hill 's normally high standard , although he said that John Hill 's first and second prizes in the ARCHITECTURAL/BUILDINGS/RECORD were very well deserved and entirely right . |
| 4 | The New Criticism began , as 1 said , with the work of Richards and Eliot ; more exactly one can say that it began with the publication in 1924 of Richards 's Principles of Literary Criticism , a radical , polemical programme for the study of literature that has had an enormous impact on British criticism and scholarship in the past fifty years . |
| 5 | I 'd promised myself not even to think about Julie Burchill again , let alone mention her ( yeah , right on , Camille , we 're rootin' for ya ) , but I must say that I agree with her that the Best of Young British list would have improved by the addition of an American and someone who 'd written a non-fiction book about football . |