Example sentences of "[verb] say be [det] " in BNC.

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1 Yes I have spoken to Mrs who is the er er the woman involved and what she has said is this , the We ca n't directly we ca n't directly get hold of it , they wo n't send it out into the community .
2 All that needs saying is that Mould is back with a razor sharp cleaver , a new band , a re-tuned view of the uneven-ness of life .
3 all that needs saying is that Mould is back in a big way …
4 — the most interesting thing he has to say is that sadism and masochism are always present in the same person : a masochist is a frustrated sadist , and a sadist is a frustrated masochist . ’
5 ‘ What I want to say is this , there was a misunderstanding .
6 What I want to say is this .
7 Or you can do what I have just said , which is , say ‘ I , I 've made a mistake there , I think I 'll do it again , what I want to say is this . ’
8 Erm the tentative benefit you put in at the end of that you said is that okay and Maggie said yes erm the answer could be construed I , I thought in that basis well yes it 's okay so what whereas if you 'd 've said is that of interest to you
9 What you could have done say was this one here that 's marked E does n't have to be all of those who supported Everton , it could be just that bit .
10 that can be used for actually doing , doing the recycling on each of those , and and I would like to say that that this , this report had been erm prepared jointly by officers of the Transportation Department who were responsible for the operational side and wi and the officers and regulation side of , of the Authority Planning Environment Department and therefore the comments in the air have been shared between erm both sides er what I would like to say is that as well as the recycling activities which are carried out in our household waste facilities of glass , paper , waste - oil , etc. , er there are we have in the last twelve months started two initiatives which I think will fall in into erm the , the first part - composting .
11 All Im saying is that football is nt always a simple game .
12 All I did say is that ca n't see us out here .
13 What he did say was that Rabbit has no intention of setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries in any country , because of its commitment now to its previously neglected distribution partners .
14 When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition .
15 What he omits to say is that new station is south of the River Wharfe and there are no bridges over which anyone can get to that new station from the area f search .
16 " My dear , what the marquis is trying to say is that young women on their own often have to sell their bodies in order to eat . "
17 ‘ I suppose what I 'm trying to say is that
18 What I 'm trying to say is that yo , i now you got ta order another to , forty six .
19 yeah , what I 'm trying to say is that , that the Germans , on one German captured about four hundred blokes
20 but basically what , what , what I 'm trying to say is that erm , you know , it 's nineteen twenty seven , the world depression has n't happened yet erm and he 's assuming that you know , well you , you just said downtrodden masses for thousands of years I 'd say , you know , balls to that
21 Apart from qualifying for Pseuds Corner in Private Eye and avoiding the use of plain English , what Rumbold was trying to say was that British youth had just discovered trainers in the late Eighties .
22 And , er , so the , so Freud 's theory does n't necessarily require that , that any source of anxiety should be traced to today 's events , what it what it does say is that very often today 's events shape the manifest , and sometimes the latent , content of the dream quite a lot .
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