Example sentences of "saying [pron] [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Are you saying she is n't all right ? ’ he said hoarsely .
2 And I have to keep saying she 's out , busy , emigrated , in the bath , gone to bloody Timbuktu . ’
3 I mean she 's always saying she 's always saying how you know she , oh my kids this , my kids that .
4 No I do n't think that 's , sorry , I think it is perfectly possible for Stella to make this assumption to get them changed and to come with the revised version which says , which is apparently what Jenny has done here , this looks to me , in a not unreasonable way , it looks , she is saying something is there , this must be an example of what Stella means , data can be stored in three different ways where clearly previously that said four different ways .
5 So I mean , Mr is quite correct in saying there 's already a significant er commuting movement between settlements to the north of York and and Leeds .
6 Mind you , I 'm not saying as that 's what she 'll get for the asking , and I 'm not saying there 's not many a man as 'll hand over his pay-packet unopened , but there 's enough of the other sort to give us a bit of a breather Thursdays . ’
7 I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ?
8 I 'm saying there 's only two ways you can do it in this country unless is to stop on the dole and .
9 You , you 're saying there is already an alternative ?
10 When they met in Paris in 1963 , Breton hailed him as a surrealist , but in a recent interview Gironella disclaimed so tidy a classification , saying he is as much a baroque artist as a surrealist .
11 What I said about him saying he 's not changed any ?
12 He said he 's at the home and everything 's going alright and he 's saying he 's already sent us the , the , the invitation , but I have no invitation
13 Paul had asked me to do a swap to do his early next Wednesday so yeah , put the form in and everything the form came back today saying he 's already on a late and the day that he 's supposed to be repaying me he 's already on shift
14 ‘ I 'm not saying he 's raving mad , ’ she said , ‘ but he is n't like the rest of us . ’
15 In short Locke is plainly saying , it seems to me , that anyone who say a French man buys a holiday home in England , reversing the general trend nowadays , erm Locke is saying he 's still a French man .
16 A C Milan and Cappello the er Milan manager has gone on record as saying he 's as good as anything he 's ever seen .
17 I want to tell them I 'm going to Drama School , but I ca n't stand the look on their faces , the thought of their whining voices saying it 's not a suitable occupation for their darling daughter . ’
18 ‘ The Thing 's saying it 's not just a machine , it 's a sort of … a sort of collection of electric thoughts that live in a machine .
19 I 've taken as much stick as praise since the line started in June , with people saying it 's not real recycling .
20 Similarly there are individuals that go through the court system and are punished , that are perhaps sent to prison , and come out of prison saying it 's not going to make any difference , I now know how to break into every type of car , every type of building .
21 ‘ I 'm not saying it 's not true .
22 Wiltshire , it 's no use you keep saying it 's not true .
23 Erm going back to your point , we , we are operating within the context of a new democracy , right , which is , is , is broadly a kind of democratic approach erm I E that it 's , it 's an indication of a sort of the bourgeois revolution but within that you 're saying it 's not just a democratic revolution , it 's a new democratic revolution and within that there will be elements of socialism being created .
24 You 're saying it 's not not it is n't impossible but it 's harder to generate a warmth over the phone is n't it ?
25 my Lord the fifth point in relation to question three , C , we 've always understood this to be a threshold bond , we 've concentrated on the words capable in law in relation to section fourteen , there are two ways of viewing this and your Lordship will clearly have to take a view on whether er one or both of these is a proper issue under clause three , C one , first of all is , is , is section fourteen itself capable of restricting the competition , is it in itself a restriction of competition , well we took your Lordship the C B R case , the case of the commission in which an ouster clause was held to infringe article eighty five , because of it 's interrelationship with the other restrictions and so section fourteen is bad if the other restrictions are made out as a matter of competition law , that we say is a question of fact and we therefore answer that part of three C by saying it 's not capable in law
26 I 'm not saying it 's not gon na happen but there is no evidence to suggest that it will from the survey .
27 Shall I , do you put a lot of stick on the saying it 's not so , do you know the in a position to exchange contracts .
28 when he came like , he said , he was saying it 's not , so he promised again he was saying
29 Down the bottom there in , number page twenty six it speaks about another modest man who became a role model for me who 's name 's John now a member of the governing body of Jehovah Witnesses and he 's been quoted over the years as saying it 's not so much where you serve , but who you serve that is truly important , can you see that ?
30 Yeah , it was , and th erm but it 's just saying it 's not like that .
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