Example sentences of "saying [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I goes what ? , oh do n't worry , I was pretending not to hear what she was saying cos she misses it after a while , thought |
| 2 | I do n't , I do n't I mean I do n't quite agree with what you 're saying cos you seem to be saying whatever party 's in power in local government it 's gon na be exactly the same |
| 3 | That 's what I 'm saying if they do n't |
| 4 | But they 're not saying if they have Bosnia in mind . |
| 5 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 6 | Right , so me and Jim had a chat the other day just looking at the the roadside entries and the counts and I was sort of saying if we work on the basis that we want between ten and twelve people , twelve people maximum |
| 7 | Yes but I 'm saying if I had a member of my family there , I would definitely want to know what was going on . |
| 8 | I mean I keep on saying if I found I could n't do the maths I 'd ditched |
| 9 | ‘ George Courtney is special and sent me a letter congratulating me and saying if I need any help , just to give him a ring . |
| 10 | It 's no good sat there saying if I see it , we 've got to get some |
| 11 | He was saying if you had a three tier extending ladder then the they sort of , their more rigid . |
| 12 | I was talking on Sue , I was saying if you 've got a client who did n't give you the convenient forty two pounds , but said you 'd got forty or thirty pounds to spend , the first thing you 've got to do is take off the two pounds policy fee , so you 're left in this case , with thirty eight pounds . |
| 13 | And er she says er the next thing was that if er , she says she heard him saying if you let me play in your back garden , this that he 's playing with , we 'll give you a sweet . |
| 14 | But we 're saying if you look at , right , these two factors , one is the you 've got land reform er on absolute egal du n no what you call it grounds , the other is that you 're getting the peasants to do it themselves |
| 15 | nice way of saying if you want to help her with her maths sheets please do . |
| 16 | Like that was saying if you wanted to , about three months cos I mean kept putting |
| 17 | ‘ But what will you be saying if you see yourself in a month 's time with a list on you like the Leaning Tower of Pisa ? |
| 18 | And the Americans are saying if you build that we pull out our our , our aid to you . |
| 19 | So now they 're saying if she does n't , if she goes off again without her mother 's consent then they 'll take her into care . |
| 20 | What he ca n't be saying if he understands the system is , " 1 want to vote effectively both for my first-preference candidate and for my second or any lower preference " . |
| 21 | back towards the bowler , saying if he does that again |
| 22 | According to Mr Hornsby , ‘ One of the investors was a client of Clark Whitehill and at an early stage while he was still a client , the firm wrote to him saying if he did n't declare what his interests were , they would have to inform the Revenue . ’ |
| 23 | Well without sort of , saying because I work in that department , it 's good , erm I sincerely believe that it is very good . |
| 24 | You do n't listen to what he 's saying because you know just it just becomes so it takes your attention away . |
| 25 | But it welcomed FRED4 , saying because it contains more detailed proposals its provisions should be used to override FRED3 and , indeed , there should be a requirement for all transactions to be interpreted in the light of the draft off balance sheet standard . |
| 26 | I ca n't make any sense of what he 's saying because it seems to me that erm our common and everyday and perhaps very deficient notion of individuation is , what makes me different from the rest of you ? |
| 27 | I understand what Morrissey is saying because he lives his life like me . ’ |
| 28 | She cut through the heady memories and concentrated her mind on what Steve was saying while she watched a superb glossy white yacht coming in to berth at the jetty not fifty metres from the window of the restaurant . |
| 29 | Yeah , it 's exactly that kind of experience that I think has got me thinking about what I was saying before you came , well before we were just doing the coffee , about the idea of actually starting to draw , well I was calling contracts , but probably it 's more better called agreements , about you know , the theatre will do this , we will do that and |
| 30 | ‘ I thought ‘ You must be very calm , you must not antagonise your aggressor , just try to be calm and keep sensible , and always think what you are saying before you say it ’ , ’ said Lizzie , of Oxford , who bears a striking resemblance to her sister . |