Example sentences of "[was/were] say [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , when words which should have stress on the first syllable were said with stress on the second syllable , they were misinterpreted . |
| 2 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 3 | And tell me you were saying about harvest homes . |
| 4 | But I think one of the things that men are afraid of is that when women get into the things the attitudes change , as we were saying about bigotry and religion and so on with football , I do n't think that men want that because this is the perfect club they can enjoy and indulge all that , but if women really get into it the thing will change as society does . |
| 5 | Now bearing in mind what we were saying about exchange rates before the break , if the pound was strong that obviously implied that people wanted to buy sterling , but what goods did they want to buy off us ? |
| 6 | Yeah , the only other thing like when you were saying about site layouts , if there 's any maps that we need , and that 's including maps for coding , wall maps , you know , large scale . |
| 7 | Er now you were saying about crime in the area . |
| 8 | Do you kn erm on the subject of I know last last time I came when I spoke to you that you were saying about you were saying about religion and it was and the fact that you erm go to church . |
| 9 | It 's just a special , because it 's a special fraction that we use a lot we just give it a special name and call it percentage , but any time someone says to you like er what 's , let's try this one , now you were saying about point seven five and things |
| 10 | Cos you were saying for example with the fact that the the flats they erm people what they actually wanted to buy from here , erm differed from what Yeah . |
| 11 | Erm so we were saying for example , and this is what we , we 'd actually come up with , the five days of the week , and the three categories of staff , I mean I 've just obviously put erm C L As are in either C L or E O really |
| 12 | and er , well what they were saying on bus cos he had a sleep just in front of us last night , somebody said we 're Park Row and they said oh he 's asleep in front there , well that was him you see , so I reckon he comes from there , see I mean , the rest must have just come in here or King 's Lynn , well if they fell out |
| 13 | But I thought you were saying in answer to a question my was putting to you that one of the reasons for shouting armed police was so that everybody knows you 're armed police . |
| 14 | This was said to me , not by me , at a seminar on joint planning the other week and it was said over lunch by the director of another voluntary organisation which shall remain nameless . |
| 15 | Nothing was said over supper either , not one word . |
| 16 | Nothing was said about ransom on the television , but the officer who interviewed me , Chief Inspector Golding , said Tristram Abberley 's letters were demanded . |
| 17 | I agree with what was said about joyriding . |
| 18 | It was said with defiance , but even so Jonna was taken aback by the violence of his father 's reaction . |
| 19 | A man who tempered sentiment with business sense , it was said of Guillaume that he revealed the price of a painting with the same air of awed reverence that he mentioned a woman 's age . |
| 20 | The late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini declared a ‘ fatwa ’ against Mr Rushdie on February 14 1989 because his novel , Satanic Verses , was said to blaspheme Islam . |
| 21 | She suffered dreadfully from hay fever , and many were the times — such as when we picnicked on Ivinghoe Beacon — she would have benefited from emulating Alan Turing who was said to cycle to work wearing an army gas-mask to protect himself from the pollen . |
| 22 | This was said without fear but with considerable surprise , as most certainly such a thought had not crossed his mind for months . |
| 23 | A confidential meeting in Mexico City between the FMLN and Salvadorean business leaders in early July was said by rebel sources to have been " direct and productive " . |
| 24 | Why the date 1785 was used is uncertain ; it was said by Professor J.G. Wright to commemorate the meeting of the Odiham Agricultural Society when the first mention of the idea of improving farriery was made , but the strong possibility remains that it was originally meant to be 1875 , the year the College received its Charter of Incorporation and adopted its coat of arms , and that someone corrected what was wrongly assumed to be an error . |
| 25 | ‘ It was said in court that the dogs looked different and the breeder again stated that she had not bred them . |
| 26 | Matthew Gould , who 's 25 , was said in court to be a man doing his duty as a bailiff . |
| 27 | Reginald Oliffe , who 's 44 , was said in court at Cheltenham to have been a farmer for 25 years . |
| 28 | Margaret Hughes was said in court to have been a farmer for 40 years . |
| 29 | It was said in Parliament that ‘ The courts were to become agencies for the rescue as well as the punishment of children . ’ |
| 30 | Having once looked at what was said in Parliament , it is difficult to put it out of mind . |