Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's always nervously brushing the hair out of her eyes and saying that she ca n't come out with Howard because she has to go and see a client . |
| 2 | He just sat there jiggling his bloody spectacles and saying that as far as he knew it was n't . ’ |
| 3 | England came away from Australia shaking their heads and saying that it was impossible to defend against those moves . |
| 4 | Seminar participants accused international journals of attracting all the best papers from Indian authors and said that the resulting ‘ paper drain ’ ( besides the brain drain , of course ) deprives Indian medical journals of material that is rightfully theirs . |
| 5 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 6 | Some are inclined to shrug their shoulders and say that Thailand , like an unruly adolescent , is just ‘ going through a phase ’ . |
| 7 | When the relevant Finance Act was being discussed in 1976 , the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury , Robert Sheldon , referred to teachers ' children educated at fee-paying schools and said that the benefit would be ‘ assessed on the cost to the employer , which would be very small indeed ’ . |
| 8 | He issued a detailed list of demands and said that the government 's response would determine the speed with which genuine negotiations could resume . |
| 9 | US Coast Guard Commander Larry Mizell quoted one of the survivors as saying that during the storm ‘ many of the people went to one side of the vessel , which may have contributed to the problem they had . ’ |
| 10 | I can make no better compliment to Karajan , the Vienna State Opera Orchestra , and the singers than to say that all these intrinsic qualities of the work , not generally understood , were brought home . |
| 11 | Trinity House is becoming increasingly concerned about vandalism to light buoys and beacons in the Thames Estuary and Channel areas and says that damage to navigation aids cost half a million pounds to repair last year . |
| 12 | Christmas fillers you see , so I , she , cos I 've , I 'm going to make a couple of fruit cakes , I said well I was going to bring in a couple of fruit cakes and said if you need them not , if not I said I 'll take them back I thought no way is Sue gon na eat them , eat cakes like she did last year , or year before |
| 13 | Levi noted that most of the republics had Jewish communities and said that Israel expected the republics to respect the communities ' rights , including the right to free emigration . |
| 14 | Some time in the early hours of Saturday morning Archie staggered to his feet and said that he 'd have to be on his way . |
| 15 | But Councillor , his first public statement was to support all those gimmicks and to say that he wanted an end to the three tier system in , turned his back on all our middle schools . |
| 16 | However , Sefton 's Chief Planning Officer Tim Cox refuted the criticisms and said that the fun characters were just one aspect of environmental art being considered for the area . |
| 17 | In the early 1960s , it became fashionable to criticize British institutions and to say that this country was lagging behind its European competitors in many aspects of modern life from trade union structure to central heating , from the capacity to sell and provide after-sales service abroad to playing football . |
| 18 | No , I I 'm gi it 's not my , I I would just look at mathematical skills and saying that you 're not really yo you do n't really mean mathematical skills . |
| 19 | But he was resented by long memories in those who had fought a war ; by Churchill 's men for weakening the morale of the Air Force through his attacks on area bombing ; by the school of Lord Vansittart which loathed Germans and said that Nazis were typical of that race , and hated a bishop who told them never to identify the true Germany with Hitler . |
| 20 | So I told him to take these tablets and says if he felt no better he 'd better get to doctors , well he did n't even move out of bed , apart from summat to eat |
| 21 | Striped shirt tapped a gold pencil thoughtfully against his teeth and said that of course one had every respect for someone wishing to take such a stand and that in that case we must see what could be done with the portfolio as it was . |
| 22 | So great , let's communicate with any other deputies and say if you 're not prepared to take it over we 'll close the we 're afraid the scheme will have to close down . |
| 23 | However , I understand that , the other day , an English acrobat 's son came up to Scotland for a few hours and said that the whole thing was non-negotiable . |
| 24 | He made notes and said that if he had a key to the house he 'd be able to plan what was needed in a shorter time . |
| 25 | I think my parents were rather surprised at my reaction , because I was their first child and they had been following child development textbooks that said that children ought to start making social relationships at two . |
| 26 | While many hoteliers get upset because successive governments appear to ignore the industry 's needs and say that it can look after itself , he regards that as a compliment . |
| 27 | Kent County Council in the UK was the first beta test site for the new Unix versions and says that the new products enable it to reduce significantly the unit costs of functions such as paying invoices and processing journals . |
| 28 | As the problem which prompted the question has been resolved by the Inland Revenue , will my hon. Friend pass on to its staff the thanks of many Members of Parliament for dealing with issues that we have raised on behalf of our constituents and say that we hope that the problems will continue to decline as tax rates come down rather than go up ? |
| 29 | The resolution reminded all parties of their obligations under the 1949 Geneva Conventions and said that " persons who commit or order serious violations of these conventions are individually responsible " . |
| 30 | She was described as being ‘ distant ’ during the attacks but said that she was aware of her actions . |