Example sentences of "saying [conj] [pron] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Menem , who was not obliged by the Constitution to call an election , was reported as saying that one was not necessary since his brother was Duhalde 's " natural successor as established by the law " . |
| 2 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 3 | It 's interesting , you 're talking about our first caller who was saying that there was just too much television coverage |
| 4 | I 'm not saying that there was n't an expectation that there would be a gradual move in there , and ultimately we would suffer and we would lose that level of grant . |
| 5 | You were right in saying that there was very bad press given to hormone replacement therapy in in the early days when they used very high doses of of er un er , of normal oestrogens and this caused an increase in the amount of end of uterus , uterine cancer and this I think has generally er mo mo mo ruined the course for for the older doctors because they still think that it 's associated with an increase in cancer and they have n't got up to date to realise that the more modern preparations are not causing this and that 's where I think th the problems li lie . |
| 6 | Here he bade me stay , saying that there was only the laboratory overhead , and that he did not wish me to enter there . |
| 7 | There was evidently a lot of preliminary discussion about the scheme among staff in schools , with only 5 per cent saying that there was only little . |
| 8 | She refused to collect any welfare benefits , saying that she was n't going to have DHSS snoopers visiting the caravan to see if she and Neil were sleeping together . |
| 9 | He finished his letter by saying that she was still close to him and that he wanked about her a lot . |
| 10 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |
| 11 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |
| 12 | The inquiry is limited to events after 1986 , but Mr Patten appeared to be saying that it was up to the head of the inquiry , under the oversight of the Police Complaints Authority , to decide whether to extend it . |
| 13 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 15 | Listening to the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) saying that it was not the Government who had thought of the citizens charter but Mr. Herbert Morrison reminded me that old habits die hard — in particular , the old habit , much beloved of socialist Governments everywhere , of rewriting history . |
| 16 | He was in this office a fortnight ago saying that it was about time as his father was getting on and one never knew , et cetera et cetera … |
| 17 | When the Frenchman , Charles Bonnet , was confronted with the argument that if preformation were true the first rabbit would have had to contain 10 10000 preformed embryos , he merely responded by saying that it was always possible , by adding zeros , to crush the imagination under the weight of numbers . |
| 18 | The bank also denies last year 's claims that it had signed a major deal with IBM to supply RS6000s ( UX No 323 ) , saying that it was only ‘ evaluating ’ the IBM equipment . |
| 19 | A Scottish Agricultural College vet , Phil Scott , appealed to farmers to consider disease prevention rather than cures , saying that it was much cheaper to spend money on vaccines than have to spend perhaps £30 on treating a single calf which in any event was unlikely to match the performance of those animals which had been vaccinated . |
| 20 | Top price settled at £11 with one of the vendors , a Berwickshire farmer , Billy Runciman , of Woodheads , Lauder , saying that he was well satisfied . |
| 21 | that 's another story with a an unusual ending cos I 'd have thought when you were saying that he was n't that he did n't give them the |
| 22 | James 's message had been meant for herself , an oblique way of saying that he was no longer interested . |
| 23 | A statement by Gorbachev , saying that he was again in control of the country , was broadcast before his return to Moscow that evening . |
| 24 | When it was discovered that a member of the Immigration Department was in the National Front his seniors merely glossed over it , saying that he was not a permanent member and in any case it did not affect the way he carried out his duties . |
| 25 | Frank 's door was closed when he got back and there was a notice on it saying that he was not to be disturbed . |
| 26 | He asked his people not to believe those who went about saying that he was not going to keep his promises . |
| 27 | John Kirwan has also changed his mind after he was heard on TVNZ after the World Cup saying that he was not prepared to play for New Zealand unless John Hart was nominated as coach . |
| 28 | In turn , again only in Mark , Jesus complimented the Scribe for his great insight , saying that he was not far from the kingdom of God . |
| 29 | Daum later explained his Hanover confession , saying that he was not a doctor and that he had mixed up one or two things . |
| 30 | Now , however , four days later , having escaped into Austria himself , Loehr was making a final attempt to surrender his forces to the British , saying that he was not longer able to control the movement northwards into Austria either of his own German troops , or of a huge column of Croat troops and civilian refugees advancing from Zagreb on the frontier town of Dravograd , south-east of Klagenfurt . |