Example sentences of "[pron] saying " in BNC.
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| 1 | The representational theory of mind treats the explanation of mental life as a kind of engineering problem ; it starts from the inside , from the representational state , and asks how mental states interact with one another to produce something that we would call ‘ knowledge ’ ; the representational theorist proceeds like a sceptical philosopher who thinks that what figures in our mental life is not reality but our mental representations of it ( recall my saying the Fodor described his position as ‘ methodological solipsism ’ ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Ludens , please do n't mind my saying this , I think you should n't get too involved with Dad 's theories . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's a jolly long walk , if you do n't mind my saying so , ’ Harvey remarked and smiled in a twisted way . |
| 4 | Really , this place is very squalid , Mrs Lenham , if you do n't mind my saying so . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Look , I hope you do n't mind my saying so , but I know Drew 's frite-fly keen for Perdita to get this scholarship . |
| 6 | ‘ Margaret I hope you do n't mind my saying this , but are n't you forgetting that in a few years Dickie 'll be grown up ? |
| 7 | I am not saying where I am , nevertheless the hearer learns where I am from my saying it . |
| 8 | ‘ You have n't told me a thing , if you do n't mind my saying so . ’ |
| 9 | Because Jean-Claude must have felt all this , too , there was no point in my saying anything . |
| 10 | He was getting closer and still shouting : ‘ No jumped-up photographer comes to this set and uses my image without my saying so , you hearing me , you hearing me right ? |
| 11 | It was no good my saying it sounded like a circumscribed area of peritonitis because I did n't know what was behind it |
| 12 | In this the woman inadvertently mentions God and says to her fellow passenger : ‘ Oh , I do hope you did n't mind my saying that . |
| 13 | Before I could protest at the misrepresentation , Mary said , ‘ Oh , no , that 's not so at all — that 's a very unscientific remark , if you do n't mind my saying so , sir ! |
| 14 | ‘ And if you do n't mind my saying so , ’ he continued in that same soft , gentle voice , so at variance with his appearance , ‘ you appear to give to sales what vampires might give to the transfusion service . ’ |
| 15 | My hon. Friend is wrong — if he does not mind my saying so — in the way in which he phrases his question . |
| 16 | ‘ I hope you do n't mind my saying so , but it sounds pretty boring to me . ’ |
| 17 | They showed , for instance , that if you look at someone saying ‘ ga ’ on a piece of film with the sound being removed and replaced by the sound ‘ ba ’ , then subjects will actually report hearing the sound ‘ da ’ . |
| 18 | A liberal , she remembered someone saying , is just a reactionary who has not been mugged yet . |
| 19 | You could have someone saying ‘ Screw me ’ but not ‘ I 'm coming ’ which was a fascinating reaction . ’ |
| 20 | Accepting someone saying ‘ No ’ to you |
| 21 | Flashman said : ‘ Barry and I took calls on Thursday from someone saying he was Martin Edwards , and we genuinely thought it was him . |
| 22 | Wittgenstein imagines someone saying that the kinds of sentences are assertions , questions and commands . |
| 23 | We can imagine someone saying : ‘ We understand ‘ It 's afternoon ’ from our own case , that is , from our experience on Earth of , for example , seeing the Sun more than half-way across the sky as we recline in our garden chairs after lunch . |
| 24 | Earlier I said that we can imagine someone saying : ‘ We understand ‘ It 's afternoon ’ from our own case , that is , from our experience on Earth of , for example , seeing the Sun more than half-way across the sky , and so on . |
| 25 | Similarly , we can imagine someone saying : ‘ We understand pain-language from our own case , that is , from our experience of pain . |
| 26 | Surely if someone says ‘ The earth is flat ’ that does not even begin to cause a belief to that effect in me , nor does someone saying ‘ Cruelty is a good thing ’ even begin to cause approval of cruelty in me . |
| 27 | Let's hear someone saying something . |
| 28 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 29 | If there was one thing that got right up a nome 's nose , it was someone saying , ‘ Here is a really sensible idea . |
| 30 | Well he has someone saying that describing away and they say right they and just like jump off the page and start moving round the room . |