Example sentences of "saying [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another interesting question is whether you have any right of redress if , while continuing to pay your salary , your employer does not give you any work to do , perhaps sending you home and saying for some reason , ‘ Do n't call us , we 'll call you ’ . |
| 2 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 4 | Colleagues in local government have been saying for some time that the Government have said that , at some point , the revenue collection services in local authorities would be privatised and would go out to tender . |
| 5 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 6 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 7 | We should actually be pushing saying for those Health Ser Service erm workers and also people in the public who are not doing that , not a case of , we do n't want you to and this is a case against it , although that 's strong . |
| 8 | Cos you were saying about that Golf . |
| 9 | Oh I was just saying about that turkey thing and you said we 'd never eat er |
| 10 | This is what some of our customers have been saying about environmental Service staff recently : |
| 11 | I mean I I would say that was an abuse of the position of power , because if he was Joe Bloggs in the street nobody would listen to what he was saying about electoral reform ! |
| 12 | So it 's going over the same ground but from the different er different emphasis because clearly my mistake last week was to try and cram in too much and to erm assume that what I was saying about modern sex theory was erm self-evident . |
| 13 | ‘ What will Sellafield be saying about this mud in ten years time ? ’ |
| 14 | You know you were saying after that training day , admin assistants do have this . |
| 15 | one of them said , you know , he said how , how the hell how the hell can they say which directions the fire 's coming from ? but they , I mean some of them were saying like this mate he run out , he was going across this patch of open space and the soldier obviously saw a soldier and as he did that apparently he got shot through there and out the other side of him . |
| 16 | ‘ But do n't you understand , I only want to help , ’ she was saying with bosom-heaving passion . |
| 17 | That was all that was necessary and to proffer whatever it was , saying with great emphasis ‘ Here is what you asked for , sir ’ . |
| 18 | She made an effort and pulled herself together , drawing away from them and saying with great dignity and a careful enunciation of her words , ‘ You must not q-quarrel , you two . |
| 19 | There followed the flashing of their torchlights and muttered excuses and a voice saying with exaggerated courtesy , ‘ Sorry , ladies . |
| 20 | How dare she , he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page , how dare she enjoy reading books when he could n't ? |
| 21 | Then he crushed the paper in his hand , making a fist with which he struck once , twice , three times at the floor , saying with each blow , ‘ Damn ! |
| 22 | Mr Petrakov is one of the band of influential economists who have made the mental leap to the market ( ‘ We need a normal , civilised market , ’ he says ) , and have been saying with growing urgency that Mr Gorbachev must join them , and bring the country with him . |
| 23 | Aware that she was causing David a deal of agony just being in the same room as Luther , Beth turned to him now , saying with some tenderness , ‘ And you , David ? |
| 24 | Isambard broke stillness and tension together , saying with careful serenity , and to the hall in general : ‘ Lucky for us both that intent and act are sometimes so far apart . |
| 25 | So he suddenly found that he preferred to write poems but what he 's actually saying in that essay , is that he thinks poems are living things , just as animals are and that they 're they 're difficult to catch . |
| 26 | And we have made a point of saying in this press release that children can individually enter this as well . |
| 27 | So when you compare what the politicians are saying in this election , ask yourself these questions . |
| 28 | That 's what Jesus is saying in this parable . |
| 29 | The same morning , Ernest went to the Post Office — which had a blue sign outside , saying in white lettering : You May Telephone From Here — and called the office at Stepney , making an appointment for the following day . |
| 30 | Ruether 's , if she is not saying in any sense of Christ that he is unique , surely can not be said to be so . |