Example sentences of "be [adv] say that [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am just saying that we have no other alternative . |
| 2 | We 're not saying that you do n't like that . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | So what they 're now saying that you 've got |
| 5 | ‘ I think you 're about to say that I do n't understand , but I assure you I do . |
| 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 | Feelings of guilt are really about a sense of unentitlement ; in thinking that your desires and feelings are wrong or ‘ silly ’ you are also saying that you feel you are wrong or silly , and not entitled to be taken seriously , or helped . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not saying that we pretend it never happened . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that . |
| 11 | Yes I 'm not I 'm not saying that I do n't think it 's a an important consideration . |
| 12 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 13 | I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong . |
| 14 | Th the motion 's basically saying that we want to continue er our demands for harmonization of conditions pe irrespective of what peop jobs people do er in terms of negotiating , negotiating agreements . |
| 15 | This is not to say that they convey the same sense , nor that they necessarily refer to the same event ; but given what we know , both about the real world and the fictional world , it is reasonable to infer from each the same event . |
| 16 | To say that they have priority is not to say that they have absolute hegemony over all other accounts at all other times , but rather that as a practical technique they are the accounts from which one 's initial hypotheses as to what is happening must be taken . |
| 17 | To say that religious beliefs have infiltrated discussions of scientific method is not to say that they have directly affected scientific practice , for statements about methodology have often been rationalizations , used to justify a research program already in existence . |
| 18 | That is not to say that they do not have particularities , for a particular instance of a shirt has to be of a certain colour , and have pockets or not , or it would not be a shirt . |
| 19 | This is not to say that they do not acknowledge the role played by sequential ordering in signalling the communicative function of an utterance . |
| 20 | Bolivians prefer to choose their governments the democratic way , but this is not to say that they admire the means at present available for doing it . |
| 21 | ‘ This is not to say that we ignore our existing borrowers . |
| 22 | That is not to say that we take such episodes to consist in relational facts . |
| 23 | This is not to say that we have to fall back on Old Testament catastrophism . |
| 24 | This is not to say that I advocate the status quo . |
| 25 | That is not to say that I disagree with Sir Bernard 's suggestion that the primary health-care system needs to be radically overhauled . |
| 26 | That is not to say that I have n't met some canny little folk , but generally I do n't speak their language because I have never been used to them . |
| 27 | That is not to say that I have n't got sympathy for the problem that he 's faced with . |
| 28 | Now then part of it is they ask me You do n't have to , but they ask me to ask people to sign erm to say It 's just to say that you do n't mind your conversation being used . |
| 29 | That 's not to say that we stop looking at it , and we 'll be looking in more and more detail at the workloads , matched up against the resources , as we get better information . |
| 30 | And that 's not to say that they replace triggers , because they are actually have a very important role to play in terms of being able to er maintain arbitrary business rules and model the way your organization works , inside the database repository . |