Example sentences of "say [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dior scored a recent success with the launch of Dune , which industry sources say was among the most popular lines at Christmas . |
| 2 | No one supposes that international relations can be fully understood just by assembling a patchwork of what the actors say was in their minds . |
| 3 | to go backwards and forwards and I 'll try this I think yeah and the last time you say was in September |
| 4 | He made a sweeping movement with his hand , as if what she 'd said was of no interest . |
| 5 | What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations . |
| 6 | I think that the I think the question of that really , I 'm trying to , I ca n't quite frankly , I think that 's Mike Kirkham in this who particularly investigated that one , but I think that basically what we were really saying was on what I was saying earlier on is that if you make it too difficult for the employers , you 're going to take away the incentive to run a final salary scheme , you know that you know I think basically final salary pension schemes are good for the employee , you know , I think that was what our fundamental thinking of on that was . |
| 7 | what it , what it was saying was in effect that the woman er so long as she 's free and and open sexually then she can have whatever she wants . |
| 8 | The last time the hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) expressed his concerns , he gave a list of our programmes which he said were to be destroyed and eliminated . |
| 9 | He dismissed some of the popular images of the Specials which he said were off the mark . |
| 10 | Seven people were reported killed in a series of pre-dawn air raids on two Croat villages , which Yugoslav army commanders said were in retaliation for attacks on an air base in the regional centre of Mostar nearby . |
| 11 | It identified 500,000 hectares of costal habitat which it said were in need of active conservation measures . |
| 12 | Both those ideas now said were in our future targets . |
| 13 | The only thing I said was about T S G and David said that |
| 14 | But I think the other incredibly important thing that you said was about the number of boys here from public schools as well and I think that |
| 15 | The replacement of Mr Burbulis , which the decree said was at his own request , will go some way to placating those in both the liberal and conservative camps annoyed by his somewhat high-handed manner . |
| 16 | ‘ There is a land , ’ he whispered , so quiet that most of what he said was at first drowned by her rushings , ‘ that lies to the South , beyond a great blue sea . |
| 17 | North America , Dr Bosworth , said was on a ‘ consumption binge ’ but it could continue to live off its assets . |
| 18 | The drivers were Ch'kassians : small olive-skinned men from an island country which Hodai said was on the other side of the Inner Sea . |
| 19 | Where was that bungalow that you said was for sale then ? |
| 20 | What she said was of interest to Edouard , but he could see that it was by way of a preamble . |
| 21 | But Merseyside Labour MPs yesterday denounced the verdict which blamed Mr Evans of Wigan who they said was under the orders of the starter , Captain Keith Brown . |
| 22 | I have always looked upon you as Theo Daniel said he could not see the pain Frederica said was in the olives , and Alexander , still lecturing , said that Vincent had objected to paintings of symbolic Christs in Gethsemane by Bernard and his compères , had torn up his own , had made do with the olives themselves . |
| 23 | At least , he must have known what she said was in it . |
| 24 | In his first address to the nation as Prime Minister on June 22 Rao concentrated on the country 's economy , which he said was in a state of crisis . |
| 25 | The body 's centre line and she equated that and what she said was in terms of the hands that people who were open and positive communicators used on average more symmetrical open palm gestures than individual or closed palm gestures non-symmetrical . |
| 26 | The African National Congress condemned the attack which they said was by shadowy forces , intent on encouraging violence in the volatile black Ciskei homeland . |
| 27 | Jay was no mean performer ( in Peter 's words ) on the tenor sax but he was nervous and edgy about doing something which he said was against the law . |
| 28 | had to say was of , of deep interest to me ! |
| 29 | Your speed they would say was in excess of 600 miles per hour , 611 to be precise ! |