Example sentences of "saying [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're so bloody thick , they 're always saying that we dress like tramps yeah then why do they wear clothes with holes in them ? |
| 2 | If we describe ourselves as advocates of animal rights , therefore , it is quite different from saying that we rest our case with anti-cruelty or pro-welfare . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not saying that we pretend it never happened . |
| 4 | Many of us are saying that we 've had enough . |
| 5 | Er , you know , saying that we 've firmed up the policy now , when erm I think a couple of years we were perhaps somewhere different . |
| 6 | Well , it 's not a positive action that is noted , as we 're actually saying that we 've we 've read it , basically . |
| 7 | So here we 'd actually have a match of all three saying that we 've recognized it to a level three . |
| 8 | We 're saying that we 've got two of our our particular sub-patterns matching . |
| 9 | In this case , it is another way of saying that we wish to be governed neither by elected representatives nor by our own countrymen . |
| 10 | Your special on the future of Microsoft ( May 22nd ) quotes Nathan Myhrvold as saying that we need an advance on ‘ smearing ink across dead trees . ’ |
| 11 | This is another way of saying that we need some good way of defining exactly what we mean by true braininess . |
| 12 | I want to end by saying that we need now to f go over this hurdle of liberation make sure that the vast majority of black South Africans who are deeply angry and I saw this anger because I was in South Africa when Chris was assassinated and this anger was turning into rage and the country was on a knife edge it could have blown up , the country would have burned had it not been for the diplomatic achievement of , of enormous stature by Nelson Mandela when he addressed the whole nation and in a sense seized power informally from white and black and the country managed to survive that but if that anger turns into rage again then the country could burn and I do n't say this to be dramatic but just to warn that in those moments when the media and so on do n't explain the situation well do n't forget our people because they have had to cope with this situation . |
| 13 | personally an and from er and the rest and he , he 's gone to this area and he 's looked and he , he 's seen and he may have interpreted this , or wanted to interpret it so that when his report went back that the , he was saying that we must get a move on to the people in the Party saying that we need to get involved now , we need to be in all these areas , we need to be helping things develop and , and being a part at the front . |
| 14 | It is all very well saying that we learn from experience . |
| 15 | Now I 'm not saying that we stand here and all we do is that because when you want to emphasise a point then sometimes a a single non-symmetrical a single hand gesture is more appropriate . |
| 16 | The formal theory implements this informal approach by saying that we consider the nearest groups of worlds in which the antecedent p is true and ask whether in those worlds q is true also . |
| 17 | ‘ Would I be right in saying that we have n't provided you with what you were looking for when you came here ? ’ |
| 18 | At this stage I can not give an explanation for their presence in that Peruvian cave , beyond saying that we have found something that indicates contact with the Old World . |
| 19 | I am just saying that we have no other alternative . |
| 20 | Historically it goes without saying that we have used all kinds of nature , and especially animals , for human benefit . |
| 21 | ‘ It goes without saying that we have an obligation to pray for a just , understanding and — dare I say I — compassionate solution to the situation . |
| 22 | ‘ Even the gaffer has been saying that we have a half-decent team . |
| 23 | To suppose that we have to choose between mentalism and behaviourism is like saying that we have to choose between saying that the words ‘ trump ’ and ‘ revoke ’ designate feelings of triumph and embarrassment , and saying that they designate triumphant and embarrassed behaviour . |
| 24 | Specialist Old Testament study has long answered this question by saying that we have differing traditions of the early history of the people of God : one tradition in which the divine name was known from the earliest times , and another — contradictory — tradition that it was first revealed to Moses . |
| 25 | Herb Nahapiet is saying that we have now , at least in the more forward looking and enlightened niches , reached the people stage . |
| 26 | He contradicted himself within his own question by saying that we have no constitutional ideas and then identifying an area on which we are currently consulting with a view to making constitutional changes . |
| 27 | You wrote on a dreadful wet day , and I feel very smug in saying that we have had very little rain for about 2 months now . |
| 28 | There are difficulties in answering a question by saying that we do n't know . |
| 29 | Erm , over the last few months , we 've been over our administration , attacked , saying that we do n't care about the rural communities , only the conservative party care about the rural communities , that 's what we 've been told . |
| 30 | It 's very difficult , because you 're , again , I mean , we 're saying that we do n't get positive feedback , how many of us truthfully give positive feedback through to our staff ? |