Example sentences of "[conj] saying " in BNC.
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| 31 | He named his discovery ‘ eight months anxiety ’ and it gained the same status for psychologists that saying ‘ mama ’ or cutting the first tooth has for parents . |
| 32 | After she had gulped the pancake , she picked up a shrimp and ate that saying : ‘ I like that . ’ |
| 33 | She explored protective services for elderly people , advocating a proactive stance , taking the initiative to give the client a taste of a service , on the assumption that saying ‘ no ’ will be the automatic response to something threatening ( Wasser , 1971 ) . |
| 34 | Perhaps if the word ‘ avouch ’ were in common use , so that the reproach would be ‘ But you avouched ’ it would be more obvious to us that saying ‘ I know ’ is doing something . |
| 35 | What he is asserting is that ‘ I have toothache ’ has meaning in virtue of pain-language taking the place of moaning ; and what he is denying is that saying this commits him to an experiential explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 36 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 37 | ‘ That 's what they used to say about women ’ is not a proof that saying it about a child is false . |
| 38 | L.G. rather deprecated that saying he was not in love with it . |
| 39 | She saw then that saying this had been unpardonable , but the odd thing was that he did pardon her , and laughed , and quietly fished some of the soggy pills out of the sink in case he fancied one later after all . |
| 40 | What is important is the discovery that saying these things can actually make us feel better , but only if we say them with sincerity . |
| 41 | Have n't you ever heard that saying about those who forget history being doomed to repeat it ? |
| 42 | The problem is that saying this , or offering any simple definition for other than heuristic purposes , is the beginning not the end of inquiry . |
| 43 | Funnily enough though there are there are feminist women who are who are saying similar things that saying that it is a bit irresponsible to have gotten into bed with someone and taken all your clothes off and then say no . |
| 44 | Although saying that one we sent out to erm |
| 45 | So why not say , then , that in development perception ‘ teaches ’ action , that as the information delivered up by the input systems becomes progressively ‘ richer ’ the infant becomes better able to direct his own movements , rather than saying that cognisance develops out of action ? |
| 46 | It 's time to get out of bed ’ , rather than saying , ‘ good morning , it 's time to get up . ’ |
| 47 | And I could n't reassure her enough , more than saying ‘ No , I have never had an affair with your husband ’ . |
| 48 | Provided they are not mentally impaired , and we are able to exercise tact , the truth , spoken in love , will always achieve more than saying nothing in order to ‘ keep the peace ’ , and harbouring resentments which fester in the mind and inevitably make us bad-tempered towards them for reasons they do not understand . |
| 49 | But rather than saying , ‘ Sorry mate , you 'll have to wait for it to be repaired , ’ Doug said , ‘ Take that one over there ! ’ pointing to an equivalent amp . |
| 50 | There should be more to alternative comedy than saying FILOFAX . |
| 51 | Peter said yes because it was easier than saying no . |
| 52 | As the Press Commission put it in 1977 ( p. 149 ) , ‘ Rather than saying that the press has other business interests , it would be truer to argue that the press has become a subsidiary of other interests ’ . |
| 53 | This is even stronger than saying that the dynamics of the system determine the behaviour of the units , as causes determine their effects , because ‘ functional ’ presumably implies something about the purpose of the states ' behaviour in achieving equilibrium , thus going beyond mere causal determination . |
| 54 | The pupil seems to be giving instructions for others to follow rather than saying what was done in this specific instance . |
| 55 | Rather than saying that £100 invested today at an annual rate of 10 per cent will yield £110 in 12 months ' time , we say that £1 10 due in 12 months ' time has a present value of £100 today . |
| 56 | Moreover , although the Rules sprang from this conflict , they did not in terms go further than saying that persons in custody should not be questioned without first being cautioned . |
| 57 | Yeah , if she 's got a young family , I mean , nine times out of ten it 's her that 's got to watch them rather than saying to the husband , oh I 'm off to play football dear ! |
| 58 | I do n't think it 's necessarily about teaching er children primarily about sex or about sexual pleasure , I think it 's all , initially , about personal hygiene and then developing that into how they can make their life safer for themself , or giving them choices to say , well I can choose to become pregnant or not to become pregnant and , I think it 's more about choices rather than saying orgasms and erm sexual pleasure , or |
| 59 | But can you think of anyone who stands out as being somebody who really does their bit and yet does it possibly with humility or erm I 'm thinking of rather than saying sort of a general terminology of sort of Prime Ministers or what have you , erm I 'm thinking if you can think of a a particular person ? |
| 60 | Erm yeah , when er rather than saying that something is a heavy mass and it move and it 's got a good acceleration you can just say it 's got good . |