Example sentences of "saying [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I delivered what was to be my longest speech of the evening , saying that I gathered he was keen to talk about his role , to talk about Gary . |
| 2 | I will not list Frances ’ numerous qualities but content myself with saying that I know of no one who could fill her position as well as she … ’ |
| 3 | I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong . |
| 4 | That is one reason why I have no hesitation in saying that I support Stagecoach also . |
| 5 | Some weeks later there were headlines in the newspapers saying that I threatened to resign . |
| 6 | you 're , you 're , you 're saying that I 've got to do ? |
| 7 | Saying that I 've got me notice on a Monday |
| 8 | and I keep on saying that I 've said it like about so many things when we 're at home and she goes , what is this you always saying well with everything . |
| 9 | ‘ By wearing a uniform , it was saying that I resist democracy , rather than support it , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 11 | Paul was saying that I mean , they 're a hundred percent nomination housing the people who need the housing most are are n't the ones who who 'll be able to er , to use the and there 's no housing strategy on on er o o on the equity part , the the there might be , only a tiny bit , on on on the rent side but it does n't homes fo for the people who really need it , even if they 've got a hundred percent nomination flats ! |
| 12 | Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities . |
| 13 | Ron was delighted too , saying that I had run well after my lay-off with injury and had beaten one of my main challengers for the European title . |
| 14 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 15 | It was not until Aunt Kit rang me up , three days later , and abused me for ten minutes between tearing bouts of coughing , saying that I had hurt ‘ poor Lil ’ quite unbearably , that he said I had been wrong to write it . |
| 16 | When he started to inquire about my life , I deflected the conversation by saying that I had sold one of the famille rose vases . |
| 17 | I congratulated him , saying that I had no doubt it would be a good day for our foreign affairs but it was a sad day for British housing . |
| 18 | I was invited to join in but always found excuses not to do so , saying that I had early afternoon lessons . |
| 19 | He was saying that I had a better disguise than he did . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm saying that I think you do n't care about the stupidities of convention . |
| 21 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm saying that I think he could have done . ’ |
| 23 | erm , so that if , if they then go to an appeal er , I was talking to this planning officer and I was saying that I think I 'll consult them , he said I do n't think you 'll need to he said , and of what you 've done so far is pretty good and I can get access to all the letters that have been written in , in objecting into the into the homes |
| 24 | Oh I know but saying that I think my kiddies ' school 's all right so I 've got |
| 25 | It goes without saying that I consider Nizan 's trilogy of novels to be an exemplary piece of writing worthy of serious critical attention . |
| 26 | ‘ As an ex-sex symbol ’ , Miss Dors confessed , ‘ I usually amaze those who pose the question by saying that I believe the permissive society HAS gone too far . ’ |
| 27 | There seems no point in saying that I love you in spite of everything because that only seems to irritate you for reasons best known to yourself and which you choose neither to explain nor comment on . |
| 28 | I could probably give you the best idea by saying that I conducted most of my tests at an output rating of only 8 watts per channel and that there was sufficient volume to overwhelm a large mammal . |
| 29 | All that is a way of saying that I found , and still do find , the conscious act of sitting down to meditate — in the accepted way of the word — an exceedingly difficult act . |
| 30 | I know people have written saying that I look like a nun , or could have been a nun , but that 's the last thing I would want to be . |