Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] be say to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His description of the group culminates in the famous formulation of the " perfect law of art " of which it is said to be the embodiment : |
| 3 | I could n't understand what you you were saying to Iris though . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | D' you hear what I 'm sayin' to you ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | that 's what I 'm saying to you |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | the more you can take them to where you want them , do you understand what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 18 | and none of you are , do n't know what I 'm saying to you right |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | You see what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 21 | Do you know what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 22 | do you see what I mean , all these things , do you understand what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 23 | Relating , you form a , a bond basically between you and the customer , that 's why you sell well , cos you gel well with your customers , there 's empathy there , you 've got to come across as caring and sharing , but you 've got ta ask questions and you listen to the answers , right , you 've got to basically treat their problems as if they were your own , do you know what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 24 | but it 's got ta be in your head , you know what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 25 | That 's what I 'm saying to you . |
| 26 | What I 'm saying to you is that you are |
| 27 | Now , I do n't expect Matthew to support that for one moment , but what I 'm saying to committee is that is our pragmatic solution at this moment . |
| 28 | what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten |
| 29 | Since I knew that I was to have the privilege of addressing this seminar , I have studied with great textual care the document issued by the federation under the title Dear Fellow Citizen because it appeared to me that it was ‘ the brief ’ for what I was to say to you . |
| 30 | I know what I was saying to myself , but myself was also my body ? |