Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shortage of Pentiums is so bad that those that have them are said to be ‘ tea-bagging ’ them — moving their precious chips from system to system to prove to customers that their box works , then quickly back into the safe . |
| 2 | The pilotari or players took to wearing more elaborate gloves or other prosthetic aids in propelling the ball , and what had once been a lo wish wall at the end of the playing area was built higher and higher to contain the far greater velocities , while the courts themselves became longer , until some of them are said to have reached 100 metres . |
| 3 | Witnesses said armed soldiers kept up an overnight siege at Kinshasa 's People 's Palace conference centre because the notes used to pay them are said to be cursed and are almost impossible to spend . |
| 4 | Too many of them are saying : ‘ There 's racialism , so what 's the good of trying ? ’ |
| 5 | What have I been saying ? |
| 6 | Since what I am to say must be but that Which contradicts my accusation … |
| 7 | I should also like to know what I am to say to Oatridge , St. Kentigerns and other people who are involved at a practical level . |
| 8 | The gentleman with the white waistcoat was standing at the gate with his hands behind him after having delivered himself having witnessed with the donkey he smiled rejoicedly when that the door , he saw at once it was Mr Mr smiled as he pursued the I am said the gentleman in the white waistcoat |
| 9 | What I am saying is that a lot of the common English objections to Ezra Pound have substance , and would be worth taking seriously , if only we could be sure that they were advanced in good faith , in humility , and with compassion . |
| 10 | POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way . |
| 11 | What I am saying is this . |
| 12 | I am saying that , and I think the other party leaders will have to say that too . ’ |
| 13 | But I am saying that the phrase ‘ there occur mental processes ’ does not mean the same sort of thing as ‘ there occur physical processes ’ , and , therefore , that it makes no sense to conjoin or disjoin the two . |
| 14 | ‘ I am saying , Lachlan Cattanach , that whoever hurt your father 's heir it was not I. Nor you . ’ |
| 15 | I am not saying take me like I look tonight and pretend that 's all you 've got to take , I am saying take me when there 's blood on my face . |
| 16 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 17 | Of course , you may retort , as did Mr Graham whenever I expounded such a line during those enjoyable discussions by the fire , that if I am correct in what I am saying , one could recognize a great butler as such only after one had seen him perform under some severe test . |
| 18 | ‘ But , Mr Stevens , you do not appear to believe what I am saying . |
| 19 | What I am saying is not that culling is necessarily the right thing , but that these are genuine detailed practicable problems which must not be dismissed , as if they were easy , by solutions of the kind that I have just suggested . |
| 20 | I am aware that much of what I am saying makes me sound like some ageing Pollyanna who just wants to pretend that all is sweetness and light . |
| 21 | What I am saying is that it is never too late to reformulate your goals : do n't give up and just accept your lot as if it were a sentence handed out by life . |
| 22 | Try to pick out the sense of what I am saying For instance , it so happens that my grandson , Henry now works in the Marconi laboratory . |
| 23 | All I am saying , my dear , is that you have another reason to end this war quickly . |
| 24 | ‘ I am saying that I can produce a printed Sherlock Holmes story by Conan Doyle which contains the words ‘ Elementary , my dear Watson . ’ |
| 25 | I am saying we must not supplant Anglican worship for a free-wheeling non-conformist style which owes more to Spring Harvest than the A.S.B . |
| 26 | Occasionally I get the unnerving sense that one or two people are paying attention to what I am saying . |
| 27 | ‘ The man is saying that you keep the noise down , and I am saying that you do what the man says . ’ |
| 28 | All I am saying is that it was n't possible for me . |
| 29 | ‘ I am saying nothing at all , ’ she said . |
| 30 | That what I am saying is true . |