Example sentences of "it [prep] saying " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read in the Planning Press that the Newbury District Council managed to browbeat the the Department of Environment into accepting the phrase in their in a local plan , so perhaps presumptions are er the word presumption may or may not be acceptable , but then to extend it into saying well you ca n't even say , not normally be acceptable , and , not normally be er agreeable , for any sort of policy er means that strategic policies or general policy approaches are simply ruled out ri right across the board . |
| 2 | I would say : if you want to talk of my thinking it in such circumstances then the least misleading thing to say is that I think it in saying it . |
| 3 | He removed it before saying venomously , ‘ Well , I hope if they 're ever in Louise Butler 's position , they 're treated better than you treated that girl . |
| 4 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 5 | Took it without saying anything . |
| 6 | If you rationalise it by saying I do n't want a row because I 've got so much on my plate , it usually bounces back at you , often in an amplified form . |
| 7 | She admired his courage in clouting the skinhead but he spoilt it by saying it had been instinctive and now he wished he had n't . |
| 8 | I think , though , I 'm always disappointed the way it seems to be that soaps raise this issue but then come back and resolve it by saying the real father is the blood father . |
| 9 | It is difficult to understand why the judges selected his design for second prize , as the assessors had rejected it by saying that it was ‘ Too expensive and involving too great a sacrifice of property ’ , and were supported by Brunel and Burn . |
| 10 | Ferguson said : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation about Lee Sharpe and we want to end it by saying clearly what is wrong with him . |
| 11 | In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side . |
| 12 | In his address opening the Council he expressed it by saying that the Council would be ‘ pastoral ’ rather than dogmatic , and talking about aggiornamento and rinnovimento — terms that harked back to his youth when both were slightly suspect . |
| 13 | Kate could n't even justify it by saying it was a boy Lizzy loved , whom her daughter had been with for a long time and so sex was a natural progression . |
| 14 | Drucker ( 1985 ) , in writing about innovation , poses the question , ‘ How can managers expect to plan for — or count upon — a process that is itself so dependent on creativity , inspiration , and old-fashioned luck ? ’ and then goes on to answer it by saying ‘ There are , of course , innovations that spring from a flash of genius . |
| 15 | And we try to explain it by saying the craft is accelerating — it 's being pushed on by the rockets placed at that end of the craft . |
| 16 | Examinees sometimes answer it by saying : ‘ B can sue A but he will fail . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't know I mean I think it depends how you d whether it is as formal as that or whether you almost do it by saying to er to half a dozen careers officers and half a dozen employment officers , Fill that , you know , Fill that in . |
| 18 | If he gets the benefit for which he stipulated , he ought to honour his promise , and he ought not to avoid it by saying that the mother was herself under a duty to maintain the child . |
| 19 | She 'd been slow to see that , and tried to make up for it by saying quickly : ‘ Her jumping over ca n't have helped Eismark 's career . ’ |
| 20 | After about five seconds silent embarrassment like only that schoolkid knows , we both break it by saying , ‘ Sorry , ’ together . |
| 21 | He said this , not because he thought it was likely she would tire herself , but because he was aware of a certain lack of sympathy in his own nature and tried , conscientiously , to redress it by saying the things other people said . |
| 22 | This huge increase caused concern among many deputies , but Pavlov had justified it by saying that it took account of forthcoming wholesale price rises and would actually represent a fall in real terms . |
| 23 | However , it would almost always be undesirable behaviour in any practical system ; presumably people reacted to it by saying ‘ something has gone wrong ’ and making adjustments to get rid of it . |
| 24 | If we met someone who held this view he might justify it by saying something like : ‘ I prefer travelling by motor car from Oxford to Westminster , let's say , or from — ’ Where do you live ? |
| 25 | Mrs er has er actually said that we should be getting some more money and then she spoilt it by saying we should be using the money we have n't got more er better use it and er maybe knocking the traffic li er islands out will save us a problem cos we 'll get a few kids knocked down and we wo n't have to bother with em . |
| 26 | My Lords , I think I made it perfectly clear what I did mean er I did qualify it by saying that of course there are times when patients do have to wait on trolleys for diagnostic purposes , for observation and for other reasons er but once an admission has been agreed , then that patient should be admitted , that is our policy and that is what we 're working towards . |
| 27 | Then he had spoilt it by saying that his reasons for leaving Australia had been personal , and she had assumed he had been involved in a similar situation to that with Jennifer . |
| 28 | And er so I said she dissolved into fits of laughter so after that she explained it by saying well I used to be a trainer and I know how I got to avoid the stock phrases . |
| 29 | You , you , you may come across er legislature like this but you , you would n't be sure , when you they 're justifying it by saying that this is natural , this is a progression in er a historical progression and that in fact that it 's a erm it 's only because the , the landlords were , were sort of evil and nasty to us that , that i it , that they , this is happening . |
| 30 | I think he might maybe he does n't do it like that , maybe he does it by saying it by God bless at the end of his broadcast , or appearing in the Gulf with a polo necked jumper . |