Example sentences of "saying [prep] [det] [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 | ‘ What will Sellafield be saying about this mud in ten years time ? ’ |
| 11 | You know you were saying after that training day , admin assistants do have this . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And we have made a point of saying in this press release that children can individually enter this as well . |
| 18 | So when you compare what the politicians are saying in this election , ask yourself these questions . |
| 19 | That 's what Jesus is saying in this parable . |
| 20 | Ruether 's , if she is not saying in any sense of Christ that he is unique , surely can not be said to be so . |
| 21 | Is that saying in another way that perhaps we should push this over to consideration onto the P A G , there are n't any meetings today , but there will be the V A T I suppose . |
| 22 | So how can you view the fact that somebody else is er , typing , or doing a transcript of er , what we 're actually saying on this tape , we should explain what grotting is , it 's most probably you know something that you do on a computer screen rather than if you look it up in the dictionary , what grotting actually means . |
| 23 | Erm it has been suggested I think Naomi 's saying on this side of the room that if there is an element of bad taste because the baby is chained up or whatever and it 's in er has had to be placed in an undignified or uncomfortable position in order to be photographed and Naomi 's question . |
| 24 | What I think we 're saying on this side of the house , I do n't know if we 're saying it loud enough or it 's going to have effect , is that we must reduce the number of rules and regulations , you do n't actually need the body which the honourable member 's talking about . |
| 25 | I would like to er know what she was saying to that son . |
| 26 | Malcolm 's got us this singer , we kept saying to each other , and he ca n't sing , what is all this about ? |
| 27 | We think , but we do n't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors . |
| 28 | ‘ A British guy running 10.04 , ’ they were saying to each other . |
| 29 | But what are the Humpbacks saying to each other across perhaps hundreds of miles of ocean ? |
| 30 | Gradually , each successive shot brings us closer to the action and eventually to the actions of individuals , allowing us to see their expressions and hear whatever it is they are saying to each other . |