Example sentences of "say that [pron] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The ones who come back who are n't mutated to the point of monstrosity say that they 've seen it . |
| 2 | The majority of offenders against this offence say that they forgot to renew their licence , which does not diminish their liability for this absolute offence ( i.e. not requiring any guilty knowledge or mens rea ) . |
| 3 | If we say that they do have something in common with other things that look white we must remember that their having something in common simply is their looking white . |
| 4 | ‘ Here 's another of those men who run away and then say that they have forgotten who they are . |
| 5 | The company claims that customers say that they want to do their development at the workgroup level in an open systems environment , on a range of hardware and under different operating systems , and to share data in a decentralised development environment , rather than have it all tied to the Repository on the mainframe server . |
| 6 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 7 | You say that you wish to marry her . |
| 8 | Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ? |
| 9 | Can you put your hand on your heart and say that you have made it plain what he or she is allowed to do ( hopefully not unnecessarily restrictive ) and what he or she should not do ? |
| 10 | ‘ You say that you have heard nothing from him — as regards the future marriage , that is ? |
| 11 | ‘ The newspapers say that you want to marry her . |
| 12 | I 'm gon na ring them up and say that I 've found her ! |
| 13 | And say that I 've busted my bra strap ! |
| 14 | I do not mean to be offensive to the hon. Member for Sherwood when I say that he has entertained us with his prepared briefs in many of our coal debates , but that it is a bit rich of him continually to criticise the contraction of the coal industry when he has supported many of his Government 's policies on the industry . |
| 15 | The Spartans subsequently felt guilt at having started the war : there is a revealing sentence in Thucydides ( vii.18 ) which says that they came to think they had lost the war of 431–421 because ‘ they themselves had sinned ’ when the Thebans attacked Plataia when the ‘ libations ’ were still in force . |
| 16 | Edward Gillespie says that they wanted to give their racegoers something extra and more excitement … and when times are hard this is one way of getting more owners into the sport |
| 17 | The union says that we have to accept everything that they say . |
| 18 | Endorsement of the Ericsson approach has come from the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , which says that it plans to use it as the basis for a pilot network . |
| 19 | She says that it has transformed her daughter 's life . |
| 20 | She says that it 's made it all worthwhile . |
| 21 | Indeed it says that it wants to hand its own computer business over to NCR 's managers , and has pledged not to close the firm 's factories or sack its workers as a result of the merger . |
| 22 | MCI Communications Corp , Washington says that it intends to split its shares — now standing at $52.50 — two-for-one , the first since 1983 , the third in its 25-year history . |
| 23 | He now says that he does love his girlfriend , he does want to make that relationship work , and he 's very hopeful of making a reconciliation . |
| 24 | Saddam Hussein says that he needs to protect himself from Iran . |
| 25 | I would not like it to be said that I had had my mother put away . ’ |
| 26 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 27 | Two-mid range RS/6000s are expected from IBM sometime next month , as well as a new version of the AIX operating system for the PS/2 : IBM has said that it plans to bring its various Unix flavours closer together , and is expected to add some — though not all — of the features found in its flagship AIX for the RS/6000 to the somewhat neglected PS/2 version . |
| 28 | But it did seem somewhat of a loophole actually but they ac are actually now re-examining that one , er and I think erm I mean they 've since said that it does affect you know it it would be counted as work . |
| 29 | Freeth stayed on to become the first lifeguard too , and when he died during an influenza epidemic at the age of thirty-five it was said that he had exhausted himself rescuing swimmers . |
| 30 | It is said that he tried to dissuade his sons from studying mathematics so that the name of Gauss would remain synonymous with excellence . |