Example sentences of "[pers pn] were say to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , yes yeah , I mean , I think if I if I were to say to you , shall we sing the National Anthem , we 'd say , oh no , no , no . |
| 2 | Well I s I were saying to Irene , I says did you ever get one ? |
| 3 | I could n't understand what you you were saying to Iris though . |
| 4 | And I said , and you were saying to me , what is it that you want ? |
| 5 | However they were said to be ‘ furious ’ that the Scottish Office , the local community health specialist and the water suppliers had reassured people that there was no risk to health . |
| 6 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
| 7 | They were said to be fearless swordsmen and able to shoot a man between the eyes at a hundred paces . |
| 8 | They were said to be ‘ OK but distressed and exhausted ’ . |
| 9 | Relatives from east London travelled to the funeral via Upton Park , where they were said to ‘ overwhelmed ’ by West Ham supporters ' floral tributes to Moore , who died last week from cancer at the age of 51 . |
| 10 | Not only were the garotters thought to be visiting hot-blooded Neapolitan outrage upon English soil , but on other occasions they were said to be ‘ like the sanguinary fanatics of the French Revolution ’ as well as resembling the ‘ Indian ‘ thuggee' ’ ’ . |
| 11 | When such ‘ dispositive ’ or ‘ objective ’ regimes were accepted as being in the general public interest they were said to be binding erga omnes . |
| 12 | Compared to glassfibre boats they were said to be heavy , slow , unmanoeuvrable and , because they bent rather than broke , dangerous . |
| 13 | They were said to be shaped like squid or octopuses , with many arms that could pluck men from ships , and even drag whole boats to the bottom of the sea . |
| 14 | And also as you said , the thing with colours , they were said to perhaps use less basic colour terms , so if some men were shown a bluey-green some men would say and some would say whereas a women allegedly would say turquoise or whatever . |
| 15 | They were said to be behind the acts of violence against the opposition parties , against the minorities , and against peaceful demonstrators . |
| 16 | They were said to be a happy and adoring family . |
| 17 | They were said to be a happy and adoring family . |
| 18 | We think , but we do n't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors . |
| 19 | It they were saying to me ‘ Korda , we 're pissed off with our records getting to 32 in the charts — what do we do about it ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ A British guy running 10.04 , ’ they were saying to each other . |
| 21 | Not only was the daughter they loved dead , but they were saying to themselves : ‘ If only … ’ |
| 22 | She wondered what they were saying to each other . |
| 23 | And they were saying to themselves , ‘ Why should time be the same for everyone ? |
| 24 | It was as though they were saying to me , at last you 're doing something worthwhile and respectable . |
| 25 | Some of them were said to be at least a hundred years old . |