Example sentences of "say that [pron] was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon Wigg says that everybody was laughing at him because the bike looked so different but he had the last laugh … won the title and that 's what it 's all about … |
| 2 | She says that it was spinning in the road . |
| 3 | She says that he was hanging by his dressing gown cord from a banister . |
| 4 | Having signed on and said that she was looking for a job as a research scientist , she was advised that she should think again . |
| 5 | Asked about apparent defections from his cause , he claimed never to have said that he was counting on anybody . |
| 6 | Had he said that he was going to his death in Lucifer 's inferno ? |
| 7 | It is said that he was interfering with the choir girls , some of whom were betrothed . |
| 8 | I remember excusing this by saying that I was waiting for the police and that nothing should be touched until they had come . |
| 9 | It was a secret that made her even more different , because now that people were saying that she was turning into the dark beauty her mother had been , she knew much more about why men and women made babies , that it was n't because it was a duty to God but because they enjoyed it ; and seeing him in church every week , noticing that his voice was going deep and that her own body was changing too and that they were becoming man and woman made her think about him and long for him more and more : she wanted to have him completely , entirely for herself . |
| 10 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 11 | Surely the Friend would be justified in rejecting the case by saying that he was living in the present and that whatever happened in the future , whether he married and had a son or not , would be of doubtful relevance to his own mind or body now . |
| 12 | Did you hear Christopher saying that he was going to be getting erm a new Cavalier ? |
| 13 | The report said that what was happening at Monktonhall should be costed . |
| 14 | Mrs Whitehouse said that she was writing to the heads of the BBC , the independent TV companies , and the British Board of Film Classification to demand that they personally institute cuts in screen violence . |
| 15 | At home , Daisy said that she was helping with Sunday school teaching . |
| 16 | Sara said that she was standing at that window when she noticed the light in the office . |
| 17 | She said that she was waiting for some of her belongings to be sent on , but she 'd supply all her tax and National Insurance details as soon as they came . |
| 18 | Some said that she was going to be the wife of Fahfakhs . |
| 19 | Of The Shadow-Line , a story still more autobiographical in its essence , Conrad said that he was aiming at ‘ the presentation of certain facts , which certainly were associated with the change from youth , care-free and fervent , to the more self-conscious and more poignant period of maturer life ’ . |
| 20 | He said that he was competing with Windows 3 because ‘ when monopolies come into play , innovation slows down . ’ |
| 21 | Sigua said that he was hoping for economic aid and credits from the USA and Iran and for bilateral trade agreements with Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) countries to relieve the situation . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman then said that he was thinking of municipalising water . |
| 23 | After lunch Lord Henry said that he was going to the park and as he left the room , Dorian Gray touched his arm . |
| 24 | Mr Millan said that he was talking to UK authorities and expressed some optimism the matter could be resolved , although EC officials believe the tougher rules could lead to new battles with the Treasury . |
| 25 | Separately , CA said that it was working with the Open Software Foundation to make Unicenter compliant with OSF 's Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ) , and Distributed Management Environment ( DME ) technologies . |
| 26 | He very rarely spoke about business matters to Georgina and decided on reflection against recounting the day 's events except to say that he was leaving for Istanbul in the morning , and would be away for three or four days . |
| 27 | Thus , it is not open to an officer of a company to say that he was dealing as agent on behalf of the company . |
| 28 | He did telephone to say that he was going to Hamburg — that was a little unusual . |
| 29 | Suddenly , on 8th January , he telephoned me to say that he was going to Sandringham to tender his resignation to the Queen . |
| 30 | It would be the way of our century to say that I was suffering from time-shock , no doubt ; since our personality is largely built and buttressed by our environment , and the assumptions environment and society force upon us , one has but to tip away that buttress and at once the personality is threatened with dissolution . |