Example sentences of "[prep] be saying " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 2 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 3 | Mm , that 's right , I mean that 's what , sort of people like Harrison sort of were saying , is that , it , it 's still rational to move , even in the presence of very high , very high unemployment . |
| 4 | But if it sometimes seems to be saying , on Salim 's behalf , that race or kinship wins , it is also the case that it is full of losers , that it has a lively feeling for the Africans of market and bush , and for their African troubles , and for the situation of Salim as someone evolved or emerged from a tribal narrowness to an experience of sexual love which is liberating and dramatic , and that it does justice to Metty 's last state , left behind in the dangerous town at the bend in the river . |
| 5 | How could there be ? the novel seems to be saying . |
| 6 | Just as you can gain access to the cave of the unconscious only by being inside already , he seems to be saying , so you can gradually reach towards an understanding of my work only by understanding it in advance . |
| 7 | At the present time interpretation , often of a narrow and unrewarding kind , flourishes , usually though falsely claimed on publishers ' blurbs to be saying something completely new and important . |
| 8 | ‘ The League appear to be saying that the difference between scrapping and cynical wounding is just three matches . ’ |
| 9 | Another thing , sociology would seem to be saying that those who have wealth and do well do so at the expense of the poor unfortunate . |
| 10 | In effect he seems to be saying that Conservatism seeks to preserve social discipline through the maintenance of authority , and that therefore it stresses authority and social discipline . |
| 11 | He would not have liked it if she seemed to be saying that they could get away any time they wanted to . |
| 12 | It seemed to be saying : ‘ You and who else ? ’ , or ‘ Do you think that you 're really big enough ? . ’ |
| 13 | He seemed to be saying it as much to convince himself as to convince all the rest . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | All Kevin Rowland seemed to be saying was that he had something to say . |
| 16 | Join Congress , Mr Gandhi seemed to be saying , and create a party strong enough to have a clear majority . |
| 17 | As opposed to this , Locke is often supposed to be saying that , in addition to properties , things have a ‘ substratum ’ which ‘ supports ’ their properties . |
| 18 | People used always to be saying that about her . |
| 19 | ‘ Ought you to be saying this , dear ? |
| 20 | Now , anybody who cares about the country ought to be saying what they will be doing . |
| 21 | Life , Ellis seems to be saying , is smaller than fiction . |
| 22 | Proust , the most admired of all novelists among academics , appears to be saying just that when he writes that ‘ only true paradises are those one has lost ’ . |
| 23 | What the Leeds manager appeared to be saying was that , while it was a matter of opinion whether Mr Midgley used his discretion correctly , he was glad to see a referee not sticking rigidly to the letter of the law . |
| 24 | Is it really any better to be saying to another religious tradition what John Hick presumably says , namely : ‘ Your God is really my God ’ , than to be saying with Polycarp and the Proconsul : ‘ Your God does n't exist ’ ? |
| 25 | Is it really any better to be saying to another religious tradition what John Hick presumably says , namely : ‘ Your God is really my God ’ , than to be saying with Polycarp and the Proconsul : ‘ Your God does n't exist ’ ? |
| 26 | Several times Paul Guillaume came back to the house to have his portrait painted in a discreet , dark suit , starched collar and tie , jaunty trilby hat , a gloved hand languidly holding a cigarette and thinly parted lips which seem to be saying ‘ I am a man of exquisite taste ’ . |
| 27 | Who , Elinor 's expression seemed to be saying , is Martin Rubashon ? |
| 28 | He seemed to be saying , ‘ Listen Geoff , there are some things I can do for you and there are some things I ca n't . |
| 29 | What are the farmers in the drawing likely to be saying to one another when they meet at market ? |
| 30 | Here the Tebbit school of thought seems to be saying , ‘ It is up to the individual to build a new world through his own efforts . ’ |