Example sentences of "saying that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is involved in saying that something exists in its own right , while something else does not ? |
| 2 | There was nearly a mile of dense woodland at this point before the swampy ground began and it was over an hour before Crane returned saying that no-one had passed on that side . |
| 3 | The Poles took the matter seriously , but the League of Nations , saying that no-one had been hurt and perhaps the revolver had not been loaded , took no action . |
| 4 | This sems to be saying that what destroys the Goddess is the Goddess . |
| 5 | He 's denied rape , saying that what happened between himself and Mrs McGurk had been with her consent . |
| 6 | Many people discount the value of statistical analysis by saying that what matters is quality , not quantity . |
| 7 | Wittgenstein avoids both mentalism and behaviourism by saying that what matters for an understanding of psychological verbs is not anything phenomenal — either inner or outer — but their use . |
| 8 | All of which is a roundabout way of saying that what matters in this world is asking the right questions , rather than knowing the right answers . |
| 9 | We , we , I thought were all saying that we felt that these reductions were actually unacceptable , or totally un almost unacceptable . |
| 10 | Couple of points that were made in relation to this particular report was the backing by the employee side , erm , to the wages board initiative that took when we wrote to the government saying that we felt that the abolition of the wages board was not in the best interests erm , of the people of Lincolnshire . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not saying that we pretend it never happened . |
| 14 | I believe that the opposition should have insisted on having a vote on a motion in which the government could have asked for support , and we would have put down an amendment saying that we thought that sanctions should have been given longer . |
| 15 | John Tutchin , himself a Nonconformist and someone who had been involved in Monmouth 's rebellion , frequently attacked the High Church lower clergy in his Whig periodical , The Observator , but was prepared to defend the Church hierarchy , saying that we had " the best set of Bishops that ever England yet knew " . |
| 16 | It 's like everything e but th s saying that we had him . |
| 17 | Many of us are saying that we 've had enough . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Well , it 's not a positive action that is noted , as we 're actually saying that we 've we 've read it , basically . |
| 20 | So here we 'd actually have a match of all three saying that we 've recognized it to a level three . |
| 21 | We 're saying that we 've got two of our our particular sub-patterns matching . |
| 22 | Last time I wrote for Contact I finished by saying that we hoped to go and see Miss Saigon . |
| 23 | Are you saying that we bundled him down to the waterside and had him hanged ? |
| 24 | In this case , it is another way of saying that we wish to be governed neither by elected representatives nor by our own countrymen . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | This is another way of saying that we need some good way of defining exactly what we mean by true braininess . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is all very well saying that we learn from experience . |
| 30 | 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 . |