Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] saying " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said this , not because he thought it was likely she would tire herself , but because he was aware of a certain lack of sympathy in his own nature and tried , conscientiously , to redress it by saying the things other people said . |
| 2 | Drucker ( 1985 ) , in writing about innovation , poses the question , ‘ How can managers expect to plan for — or count upon — a process that is itself so dependent on creativity , inspiration , and old-fashioned luck ? ’ and then goes on to answer it by saying ‘ There are , of course , innovations that spring from a flash of genius . |
| 3 | If he gets the benefit for which he stipulated , he ought to honour his promise , and he ought not to avoid it by saying that the mother was herself under a duty to maintain the child . |
| 4 | I read in the Planning Press that the Newbury District Council managed to browbeat the the Department of Environment into accepting the phrase in their in a local plan , so perhaps presumptions are er the word presumption may or may not be acceptable , but then to extend it into saying well you ca n't even say , not normally be acceptable , and , not normally be er agreeable , for any sort of policy er means that strategic policies or general policy approaches are simply ruled out ri right across the board . |
| 5 | Ferguson said : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation about Lee Sharpe and we want to end it by saying clearly what is wrong with him . |
| 6 | In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side . |
| 7 | And we try to explain it by saying the craft is accelerating — it 's being pushed on by the rockets placed at that end of the craft . |