Example sentences of "[be] say was " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had been said was we would be open to the poss I ca n't remember now the exact words he used , but |
| 2 | but hopefully it wo n't be the so what you 're saying was you you 'd recommend it to us , yeah plan this is the way we do our business , by recommendations okay . |
| 3 | I the time on the , think what they 're saying was trying to act . |
| 4 | All that could be said was that the judges and staff of the court would continue to do all in their power to reduce costs and lead times in the disposal of appellant business . |
| 5 | The decor was inclusive in the rent and all that can be said was that the decor was expensive . |
| 6 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
| 7 | So , it was in the ordinary conduct of party politics by men in pursuit of power that expectations , aspirations and objectives were reduced to an apparent simplicity , to a crudity of choice for which all that could be said was that it represented the national will . |
| 8 | There were exceptions , recognised by the statute and the courts , but this was not such a case ; all that could be said was that economic damage , perhaps very severe , might be done to the defendant if publicity were not withheld . |
| 9 | But the next thing to be said was ‘ Thank you very much ’ in German , as quickly as possible . |
| 10 | All Kevin Rowland seemed to be saying was that he had something to say . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What most of the practitioners seemed to be saying was that the satisfactions of practice lay in ‘ helping people ’ , whatever the problem , whereas the frustrations lay in their inability to exercise their technical skills more fully because of the pressure of time . |
| 13 | But by then I might have children and all I would be saying was ‘ Sit still ’ , or ‘ Do n't eat with your fingers ’ , or ‘ Eat up all your peas . ’ |
| 14 | Well no , no what I 'm saying was , the fifteen seaters here you see but I ca n't , I sha n't be put the petrol in for the both shall I ? clean tomorrow night . |
| 15 | She guessed that what was being said was that Piphros was the control , the experiment running alongside the real one , that indicated the result that could be expected with a known norm . |
| 16 | Liberals were left to pretend that what they were saying was the fruit not of compromise but of virtue . |
| 17 | Some of its members , namely Barry , Brodrick , Ashpitel , Jones and Lamb , must have been motivated by pure self-interest , as they themselves produce buildings in what they were saying was the hated Gothic style . |
| 18 | What our artists were saying was , in effect , nothing to do with us . |
| 19 | Someone who 's had the courage who knowing that what they were saying was upsetting powerful people , still taking that risk and saying what they felt to be true and just ? |
| 20 | They were both behaving as if what they were saying was what was in their thoughts . |
| 21 | Now that seems to me , that might induce er slightly might do , but I could I I think that , wha I what I thought you were saying was different from what you ended up saying and I 'm not sure which |
| 22 | Gilmore replied , ‘ I can not do much more than say that what was said was absolute nonsense . ’ |
| 23 | well all that was said was , really , they had twenty eight days to pay . |
| 24 | Bush 's belief in what he was saying was obvious . |
| 25 | In effect , what The Times was saying was that it knew what the ‘ real ’ stories were and that only dictators prevented such stories from being told . |
| 26 | What , exactly , was it that Strawberry was saying was El-ahrairah ? |
| 27 | Oh yeah I know but all I was saying was that much of different things |
| 28 | What Elaine was saying was bizarre , out of her experience . |
| 29 | Culley had no idea whether what he was saying was taking effect ; Sanchez 's face was turned to the light , his cheek deeply shadowed . |
| 30 | What I was saying was |