Example sentences of "[pron] say that [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If 'e 'ad called the doctor then I say that no-one dies ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I said that something was set on fire today . ’ |
| 3 | Many systems and many faces may have changed over the last year or two and I do n't imagine you would believe me if I said that none of these changes had saddened me but , in a changing market-place , the basics have n't changed and the most basic precept of all is that there are no healthy banks where there are no health customers to sustain them . |
| 4 | I said that someone in Montefiore 's position should check his facts before sounding off , and advised him to campaign for more resources all round instead of trying to trade one disadvantaged group off against another . |
| 5 | I doubt if that is so I think to some extent we may be in what we are saying and doing , feeding the current which says that nobody in national politics could conceivably be honest or decent or competent in any way whatsoever , that to be a Member of the House of Commons or to be a Member of the Government is somehow to have the mark of put upon them . |
| 6 | Moreover he pointed out that there is no principle in English law which says that anything which is inevitably in somebody 's head when they leave their employment is something which they are free to use . |
| 7 | There survives a copy of a letter sent to a priest Ælf. , almost certainly Ælfwine , which says that none of the royal councils are hidden from him , and asks for his intercession with the queen so that the writer might be given a fishery . |
| 8 | You make everything sound rosy , then you say that something 's the matter . |
| 9 | Bertha is quite right when she says that somebody must minister to the rich . ’ |
| 10 | She says that everyone dreams of winning a medal , but at the moment she is just hoping to get there . |
| 11 | She says that none of the staff at the Southampton office has been made redundant , although several who have left have not yet been replaced . |
| 12 | She brings home everything except potatoes and anyone who says that one ca n't get fresh vegetables in London must do her shopping by telephone , she is convinced . |
| 13 | Glenys is really a strong critic , she tells me the truth , that 's the most important thing , because it simply would n't be any good living with a fan who said that everything you did was absolutely fine and perfect and wonderful , because nothing would have validity . |
| 14 | She said that everything was ordered , and that pleased me because I had to carry it all . |
| 15 | She said that nothing of the sort would ever happen in her country , that the British are quite civilized , thank you , and that they make the rest of the world seem simply barbaric . |
| 16 | Then after half a year we get the tapes and they go back and we say that something may have to be changed . |
| 17 | We should look seriously at such ideas , because , unless we say that everybody should be in work at the same time , we can not just forget the pool of unemployed . |
| 18 | As soon as one says that one is going to study organizational life indeed , any aspect of human life — one runs up against the problem of what lens to use to view the scene . |
| 19 | For several decades most scientists assumed that the discrepancy was too negligible to worry about : after all , no one said that everything in the Universe should work perfectly . |
| 20 | Of course one can not say this of the whole story ; were one to say that one would no longer be a Christian . |
| 21 | Why do we say that someone is grinning like a Cheshire Cat ? |
| 22 | Added Keegan : ‘ They say that everything comes to those who wait . |
| 23 | ‘ And they say that everyone knew that Dierdriu would never be faithful to one man . |
| 24 | When they say that nothing happens I wonder what they want to happen . |
| 25 | They say that nobody remembers who came second but when that has happened to you as often as it has to Montgomerie , it is difficult to forget . |
| 26 | They said that one could not solve unemployment on such a scale and that if one invested £1 million in one area , having taken it away from profitable Birmingham or wherever , it would leave us worse off in the end . |
| 27 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
| 28 | He says that somebody who experiences the fire of love will find that he is affected physically : he may find that he develops a stammer and is unable to speak quickly or clearly any more and that his whole body has slowed down : a job that once took half an hour will now take a whole morning . |
| 29 | He says that everything has been laid on tonight , no expense spared . |
| 30 | He says that anyone who wants to be noticed could drive it . |