Example sentences of "[prep] say [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other UN inspectors in Baghdad have extended their stay beyond the planned departure yesterday , after saying that they had gathered fresh information on Iraq 's ballistic missile programme . |
| 2 | Styczynski had x-rays after saying that he had pains in his chest and pins and needles in his arms . |
| 3 | Well , you give the impression of a a faction in the party , now I could , I could serve this faction quite easily to Mike who 'd give me a lot of say if I said , you know , th the the plot thickens , you know , here 's a town |
| 4 | Okay , they 're poor paid , but at least they would have the pride of saying that they 've got a job whereas the elderly are having to just sit at home and turning down their fires and turning down their central heating in case they ca n't afford their bills ! |
| 5 | As described by one character , this catch-all phrase is ‘ a short way of saying that they do n't claim to find either the ultimate cause or the ultimate cure , but they do know exactly how it functions , and can prescribe accordingly ’ ( 149/151 ) . |
| 6 | Some authorities made a point of saying that they did not have a training programme because they depended on courses that presented themselves , e.g. : ‘ We always hope to send staff on courses as they are advertised ’ . |
| 7 | In this case , it is another way of saying that we wish to be governed neither by elected representatives nor by our own countrymen . |
| 8 | This is another way of saying that we need some good way of defining exactly what we mean by true braininess . |
| 9 | All that is a way of saying that I found , and still do find , the conscious act of sitting down to meditate — in the accepted way of the word — an exceedingly difficult act . |
| 10 | Hegel believed that a substance was exhausted by the sum of its predicates , which is another way of saying that he identified the categories of the German language with those of abstract thought , and those of abstract thought , in turn with those of Mind or Geist . |
| 11 | IN THE days when IBM was still the unchallenged ruler of the computer universe , Bill Gates , chairman and co-founder of Microsoft , was fond of saying that he wanted his firm to become the Big Blue of software . |
| 12 | When we squeeze the Devil out through the front door , we unwittingly let in all sorts of secular ideologies that masquerade as Christian ones ( which is just another way of saying that he comes in again through the back door ) . |
| 13 | Perhaps the charge that attitudinism makes ethics peculiarly irrational is merely a way of saying that it denies that there is such a thing as objective ethical truth . |
| 14 | This is just another way of saying that it has 3ml of alcohol in every 100ml . |
| 15 | Right , so me and Jim had a chat the other day just looking at the the roadside entries and the counts and I was sort of saying if we work on the basis that we want between ten and twelve people , twelve people maximum |
| 16 | nice way of saying if you want to help her with her maths sheets please do . |
| 17 | To suppose that we have to choose between mentalism and behaviourism is like saying that we have to choose between saying that the words ‘ trump ’ and ‘ revoke ’ designate feelings of triumph and embarrassment , and saying that they designate triumphant and embarrassed behaviour . |
| 18 | Erm because I think you can you can do a correlation matrix with say if you specify like forty odd variables . |
| 19 | I will not list Frances ’ numerous qualities but content myself with saying that I know of no one who could fill her position as well as she … ’ |
| 20 | David did n't like it because he was on there and so we went through saying that I have only the most important |
| 21 | The two kinds of reason for saying that they do not matter need to be kept distinct . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman had no basis for saying that I misled the House , and he has no basis for declining to withdraw his allegation . |
| 23 | Having grown up a northerner , I make no apologies for saying that I do not regard myself as a southerner who happens to live a few miles up the road . |
| 24 | That 's my reason for saying that I do n't think the western relief road gives very much environmental relief to the A sixty one . |
| 25 | Which is shorthand for saying that you do n't have to cheat very much . |
| 26 | In May 1964 , McAteer criticised his Nationalist colleague , Patrick Gormley MP , for saying that he had no qualms about rising for ‘ God Save the Queen ’ , or the loyal toast . |
| 27 | We think there is very strong ground for saying that it does , and that by recognising both potential criminal origins in section 211 and then by channelling all judicial review applications together by section 21K under Order 53 , the legislature was providing for all . |
| 28 | He has found several different types of Anomalocaris ; from studying the whole lot , he thinks he can make a case for saying that it belongs with the arthropods , not out on its own . |
| 29 | Groups loyal to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar , leader of the fundamentalist Hezb-i-Islami , were quoted by Le Monde of Sept. 15/16 as saying that they welcomed " the end of [ foreign ] interference " . |
| 30 | Sir Keith Joseph has recently gone on record as saying that he wished that examiners could be more objective in their assessment of what children know . |