Example sentences of "says [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Husam eddin rejects the story of the quarrel and the dating of Molla Fenari 's departure in the reign of Bayezid I , asserting that Karaman had been wholly taken over by the Ottomans in 793/1391 while the documents ( dated 796,802 and 804 ) show Molla Fenari 's period of office as kadi to have fallen after that date ; and he says rather that Molla Fenari returned to Karaman with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey in early 805/summer 1402 , following the battle of Ankara ( Dhu " l-Hijja 804/July 1402 ) , when the latter was freed and reinstated by Timur and Karaman reconstituted as an independent state . |
| 2 | W.H. Hudson says somewhere that 18 May is the crown of the English summer : in the Midland fields on that day these miles of snowy hedges reach perfection , so dense and far-reaching that the entire atmosphere is saturated with the bitter-sweet smell whichever way the summer wind is blowing . |
| 3 | When Beowulf walks into Hrothgar 's hall the poet says appreciatively that ‘ on him his armour shone , the cunning net ( searo-net ) sewed by the crafts ( orþancum ) of the smith ’ . |
| 4 | Ralph says basically that they do n't exist , so how could there be one and Simon 's view is that he would know if there was a beast and that they 're just really frightened of each other . |
| 5 | The Bishop says gently that his path simply does not cross those of the diocese 's landed families . |
| 6 | The company says only that they are ‘ being used within the group to get some money back ’ . |
| 7 | Equally uncertain is the length of his stay in Egypt : Ibn Hajar , followed by Taskopruzade , says only that " he returned to Rum and was appointed kadi of Bursa " , which post , as will be shown below , he held for the first time probably from about 795/1392–3 to about 805/1402–3 . |
| 8 | And I says only that he 's gone to back to J J and I says , and that he 'd had enough . |
| 9 | If ‘ it is raining ’ expresses the belief that it is raining , but says not that I , the speaker , have that belief , but simply that it is raining , it would appear that it differs in meaning from ‘ I believe that it is raining ’ . |
| 10 | The elvish song which follows immediately on the ‘ Walking Song ’ indeed says just that , though probably few readers make the connection straight away . |
| 11 | Mr Vecchiotti of Otis says bluntly that the main reason his company chose to move to Penang , not Kuala Lumpur , is that Penang is ‘ more Chinese ’ . |
| 12 | Parker says unequivocally that the future of the mainframe lies with Open Edition MVS , but he says that we could see a new generation of mainframe-class systems based on multiple RISC processors , again based on a similar idea to the SP-1 and that this will be the natural place for AIX . |
| 13 | This is confused : it was Robert who went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem , dying on the return journey in 1035 , and Ralph Glaber says clearly that it was he who married and divorced Estrith . |
| 14 | ‘ Nurses everywhere are working under intense and growing pressure and today 's announcement will be a heavy blow since it says clearly that the Government does not value their efforts and is not prepared to treat them with fairness or justice . ’ |
| 15 | Marcel says repeatedly that what he calls ‘ voluntary memory ’ or ‘ intellectual memory ’ fails to make the past truly live again . |
| 16 | ARTICLE 104 of the Russian constitution says unambiguously that the Congress of People 's Deputies is ‘ the highest agency of state power of the Russian Federation ’ . |
| 17 | The governor of the central bank , a friend of parliament , says brazenly that his all-important promise to rein in credit was a trick to show that Mr Yeltsin 's austerity measures were impossible . |
| 18 | Jack says practically that there is n't a beast because they 've not seen it and they 've been everywhere on the island . |
| 19 | Even one of the authors , Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina , says now that he ‘ wants a divorce ’ . |
| 20 | Andrew Knight says now that there was no target . |
| 21 | Miller says now that he was offered a deal too , one of the most remarkable even in that committee 's history of deals . |
| 22 | The cars parked on the end of the runway did n't help either , but Spencer says now that he would n't have made the runway even it they had n't been there . |
| 23 | Mrs Whitman says now that it might not happen ‘ in six months or six years ’ . |
| 24 | He says now that if he 'd known what it would involve he would have taken the first plane out of town , but I was hugely relieved when he agreed . |
| 25 | Lord Alexander says now that the Development Plans were never taken seriously , that it was then thought ‘ a nonsense ’ to try to project five years ahead . |
| 26 | Bosworth-Toller 's Dictionary says cautiously that often you can not tell ‘ whether the word is used with a good or with a bad meaning ’ . |
| 27 | My brother prior has himself testified to her powers of grace , and says plainly that no man has been found to own that he carried the reliquary . |
| 28 | Something of the kind seems to have happened in the case of the European communist parties ; thus Santiago Carrillo ( 1977 ) , in the passage quoted earlier , says plainly that ‘ the political system established in Western Europe … is in essentials valid ’ , and this is far removed from the outlook of some earlier Marxists — and of the members of a few left-wing groupuscules even today — who talk about ‘ smashing the bourgeois state ’ . |
| 29 | One says simply that her parents kept their ‘ strong , independent spirit ; they would be no burden on their children . ’ |
| 30 | He says simply that he enjoys what he does ( he 's in research ) and is not ambitious — that he 'd be unhappy on the managerial side . |