Example sentences of "[prep] be say [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
| 2 | But the next thing to be said was ‘ Thank you very much ’ in German , as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | All Kevin Rowland seemed to be saying was that he had something to say . |
| 4 | What the Leeds manager appeared to be saying was that , while it was a matter of opinion whether Mr Midgley used his discretion correctly , he was glad to see a referee not sticking rigidly to the letter of the law . |
| 5 | What most of the practitioners seemed to be saying was that the satisfactions of practice lay in ‘ helping people ’ , whatever the problem , whereas the frustrations lay in their inability to exercise their technical skills more fully because of the pressure of time . |