Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] saying " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were that girls thought 16 was the right age to lose their virginity and that 75 per cent of them admitted to saying yes to sex when they really wanted to say no . |
| 2 | This is what I mean by saying that reforms within the system of utilisation will not change the system in any fundamental way . |
| 3 | Last time I wrote for Contact I finished by saying that we hoped to go and see Miss Saigon . |
| 4 | ’ I 've reached the stage where I feel like saying no more interviews , ’ says the man who is S'Xpress . |
| 5 | Erm we do n't so and the way I feel like saying , well let's first do the bridal magazine , now I 've seen how far that goes . |
| 6 | And I feel like saying |
| 7 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 8 | My Lord Mayor , my Lord Mayor , I started by saying how angry and dismayed I was on the twenty fourth of July . |
| 9 | And he spoke to me so kindly , and with such innocent enthusiasm , that I felt like saying to Jamila , Hey , he 's not so bad ! |
| 10 | Of course he speaks , I felt like saying . |
| 11 | That threw a man who is by nature unflappable : ‘ I do n't remember what I answered ’ , said Dean , ‘ but I know what I felt like saying : ‘ You tell me ’ . |
| 12 | I felt like saying , I 've got a bloody big pile of rubbish here that I have to go over so I 've put in for overtime . |
| 13 | My dear Mrs Goreng , I felt like saying , you would have been surprised to come across a hotelier who 'd read Thomas Mann . |
| 14 | It looks really , I felt like saying to him , Sid you should have made that brass then I thought no , I wo n't . |
| 15 | But you know , I felt like saying , well , you know he could have been a bit more considerate and concerned when we were actually going out with each other ! |
| 16 | And I felt like saying fuck off and get out ! |
| 17 | I know but I felt like saying it again . |
| 18 | man said you got any experience , I said no , I said well you know experience , I felt like saying fucking well how the bloody hell am I supposed to get experience when no one will take me , but I 'm , I was n't really interested in the sales work not quite |
| 19 | And I was very naughty I , I felt like saying well some of their , they , them are n't er do you remember the very last time we were up in the hospital at the waiting area , there was those two nurses that walked up and down |
| 20 | But it is a mistake , surely , to think of emotive meaning as a form of meaning in that most important sense of meaning in which we ask what someone meant by saying something , or what he would have meant if he had been speaking properly . |
| 21 | Each has the same environment as do the atoms or molecules in a crystal ( that is what I meant by saying that this sort of structure represents simple ordering ) , and each is attached to its neighbours in exactly the same way . |
| 22 | And that illustrates what I meant by saying that you need quite complex systems . |
| 23 | I refrained from saying that it would never occur to me to make such a remark . |
| 24 | Perhaps if I start by saying that er I have er produced a one page summary which was n't with my er initial statements , which I passed to Mr and to Mr , but if I could er pass copies of that to yourself and to the panel . |
| 25 | ‘ Should I start by saying all the usual , very appropriate things ? ’ he asked lightly as he took their drinks over to a small table near the cavernous fireplace . |
| 26 | May I start by saying how pleased I am that you have recognised Michael Buerk , Alistair Cooke and the Today programme team . |
| 27 | Can I close by saying that every time Christians share the Lord 's supper they are publicly declaring their needs to be fed with the living bread and wine . |
| 28 | It was clear that … fudge proposals from the Argentinians which amounted to saying ‘ We 've done what we 've done now let's negotiate from here ’ were quite unacceptable and it was clear that the task force had to land and do its bit . |
| 29 | So it 's normally brought to us either by , the neighbours ringing in or somebody passing by saying they can hear screaming . |
| 30 | Yet , on April 28 , one of Lord Arran 's senior advisers published an article which started by saying that ‘ Northern Ireland ’ is well known as a successful food producing region with innovative manufacturers and efficient farmers . ’ |