Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] say to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shortage of Pentiums is so bad that those that have them are said to be ‘ tea-bagging ’ them — moving their precious chips from system to system to prove to customers that their box works , then quickly back into the safe . |
| 2 | Witnesses said armed soldiers kept up an overnight siege at Kinshasa 's People 's Palace conference centre because the notes used to pay them are said to be cursed and are almost impossible to spend . |
| 3 | I should also like to know what I am to say to Oatridge , St. Kentigerns and other people who are involved at a practical level . |
| 4 | ‘ I am saying to these people … if they have got information they should come out now and speak publicly . ’ |
| 5 | I am saying to you now folks become familiar with the erm depots . |
| 6 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 7 | No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons . |
| 8 | What I 'm saying to you is that , that we actually need to find additional money for this , because this is over our budgeted amount if we are to proceed , and I , the clerk is suggesting to us that we do proceed , because he 's concerned on our behalfs . |
| 9 | it was chicken pox and I 'm saying to myself it 's very infectious . |
| 10 | Oh dear , and I 'm saying to myself it was chicken pox |
| 11 | You 're putting over information on the basis that the only thing that a t an intelligent person think I 'm saying to you now , what 's going to be the effect of that on the listener ? |
| 12 | Possibly we 're looking to reduce home help hours , but this is at a time when , at the same time I 'm saying to you , we 're having problems with our S T G , our special grant for care in the community . |
| 13 | So what I 'm saying to you is , do n't go in over the top , you know , five , just a normal but a firm handshake because a man would expect it because a weak ha ha handshake can be irritating and the same thing if she is a woman |
| 14 | So what I 'm saying to you is if you like to refer to this , this will give you the clear definition of what , what 's covered in each case . |
| 15 | I mean those , by and large , those who who need to listen to what I 'm saying to and take it on board wo n't and those who already do do n't need it anyway but they 'll take it on board . |
| 16 | So I 'm saying to Graham , come on , we 're helping you , you are helping us obviously , I 'm not gon na deny the fact you 're helping us with our research . |
| 17 | That 's why I 'm saying to everyone that we should build it with two lanes and no more and so restricting the chance of it ever being a motorway . |
| 18 | I 'm saying to Glasgow city council that I think the reason for the poor health of its people is due to factors outwith health services and more to do with social and economic factors such as unemployment and bad housing . ’ |
| 19 | Also er saw er Nick last week and he 's agreed that we can offer a similar sort of training scheme around the force people apply just for er a one day course so what I 'm saying to any community affairs staff |
| 20 | What I 'm saying to you is , erm I do n't expect for one minute to have a computer installed in my office , ccessdon'tw alter it to that a particular way , and |
| 21 | Now what I 'm saying to you is that there 's a big question mark as far as Goodey er report is concerned and they can talk about er the surpluses , they can talk about the trustees , but there 's no majority as far as the employees are concerned and this was the question mark that we we were saying that one of the reasons why they were saying you know that the employee should be in the minority because in the end paragraph of the summing up of the Goodey report that states quite clearly that all the responsibility and all the but the employer , now you yourself has said that er as far as the schemes and we 're talking of something in the region of a hundred and twenty eight thousand . |
| 22 | that 's what I 'm saying to you |
| 23 | that 's er that 's right , you know , and erm what I 'm saying to myself is okay , you know , er maybe it will be tiring , I 'm sure it will maybe it will be erm expensive , like take a taxi because ca n't walk , you know , erm erm okay |
| 24 | I went and got last night and I 'm saying to him , now give me your numbers . |
| 25 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 26 | which is not a very , but what I 'm saying to Graham is if we do it on a slip road like , cos , cos I 've never done one before , if you , you 'd have to have warning signs if you got a census on the slip coming off |
| 27 | cos you know roughly what close are about and you know how to close , but that , let's imagine for the sake of the discussion , that there 's a hundred different ways of closing , right , and if there 's a hundred different ways of close closing there 's bound to be thousands of variations on each close , you see what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 28 | the more you can take them to where you want them , do you understand what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 29 | and none of you are , do n't know what I 'm saying to you right |
| 30 | There is a closing sequence now the reason that you were able to close in the manner that you did with that bloke is a natural ability , but if I 've said to you to teach somebody else it you would say I can not do it , but I ca n't teach somebody else , because you 're not actually aware of the sequence that you 're working , can you see what I 'm saying to you ? |