Example sentences of "say [is] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legal aid is not available in any form for industrial tribunal hearings erm so what I usually say is that we assist the client up to the stage where s it means going er to the tribunal itself . |
| 2 | And all we say is that we pay extra commission if we send you away but it is against er against our principle and even er economics to send people that far away . |
| 3 | ‘ What he 's saying is that they play away quite happily , not realizing what 's in store for them in the rest of their lives . |
| 4 | I know you 're not Steve but all I 'm saying is that we had a discussion about this earlier in the week . |
| 5 | And what I 'm saying is that we make less cracker but with the advertising we 're doing doing at the moment , in the magazine and Yellow Pages and I just want to kind I 'm going to talk to you about what other ways of advertising . |
| 6 | All , all I 'm saying is that we need to , before we literally start dotting I 's and crossing T's in any literal sense is to sussed out whether that 's gon na , whether they 're going to be receptive to the subject matter . |
| 7 | No they 're not the realities , because what we 're saying is that we have to modernize the policies of the Labour Party , but the policies are absolutely based in our traditional concerns , I mean , let me give you an example , when Beveridge was talking about unemployment , and the life long need for people to work , he was talking about a male workforce , where it was a man supported by a non-working wife , now we still have at the absolute heart of our concerns in the Labour Party peoples need to work , but we 're now talking about a situation , where women are sharing with their husbands the role of bed breadwinner , and in many families the woman is the sole breadwinner , and therefore our policies about employment and the economy recognize that the world has changed , our principles are the same , but the world to which we 're applying it is very different , and , again , on that you see there would be no distinction between the so-called traditionalists and the so-called modernizers . |
| 8 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
| 9 | By emphasising the ‘ primacy of action ’ what these theologians are really saying is that we do not know — indeed we can not obtain knowledge except through praxis . |
| 10 | All I 'm saying is that we do n't have to go groping about in corners looking for motive , there 's plenty of it lying about . |
| 11 | because I think er Mr 's motion is erm , similar to er Rosie 's erm except that , I mean I think what we 're actually saying is that we do actually have a number of waste planning sort of policy panel , er and this is something look , needs to be looked at in , in some detail , erm and if we just do it via a sort of straight report to the Environment Committee and I mean look at the sort of agenda we 've got today er you know how much time can we spend on the details so I mean I hope the Liberal Democrats would accept that erm yes it will obviously come to the Environment Committee eventually er but that it actually should go to the Waste Planning to the Policy panel and other bits no doubt to the Waste Disposal sort of Sub Committee for this is the policy er committee of course . |
| 12 | We seldom read in the tabloid press local police force fails er we may frequently read in the local press in the tabloid press rather , that the Home Secretary has failed and yet what we seem to be saying is that we believe that all the responsibility should be local , all that responsibility , all the blame when things go wrong should go to the Home Secretary . |
| 13 | What he 's really saying is that he does n't know the answer to the question ! |
| 14 | What the doctor is saying is that he had to continue treatment , because it was right to do so as a matter of public policy . |
| 15 | Now all I 'm saying is that he undertook to give us those in forty eight hours . |
| 16 | I mean you could have , if you have basically what we 're saying is that you have a whole load of of subject reports and on the top of it you 've got form tutor report |
| 17 | There is a problem of access to affordable housing , all I 'm saying is that you do n't solve it by wholesale allocation of land . |
| 18 | What , what you 're saying is that I mean broadly this is , is quite an incentive based system , at least on the face of it |
| 19 | What you 're really saying is that I 've no right to ask Madeleine to make sacrifices . |
| 20 | I mean , what I 'm saying is that I 've come across many of dem who try to speak the Jamaican language , er , the Jamaican Patois , but how they speak it is totally different , becau' they 've got the English accent , and um , dey , becau' they 've got the English accent they try to speak the Jamaican local Patois the same way and in doin' so it sounds really terrible you know it sort of sounds you know it 's really funny . |
| 21 | ‘ All I 'm saying is that I think we need to be apart for a while , come down to earth , if you like . |
| 22 | So , I mean what I 'm saying is that I think we should have a league table if you like of , of attendances , I , I recognise that that may not be popular , but I think it 's going to be one way of sorting out those people who attend every opportunity , and sometimes just to pat an officer on the back . |
| 23 | If we 're gon na do a deal then we , we , we have some to drive it through but what I 'm saying is that I think that if you have this meeting I , which is what February the second ? |
| 24 | If I 've got this right , then what you 're saying is that I do n't need to feel any jealousy about the multiplicity of your sexual partners , because you 're married . |
| 25 | Well what I am saying is that I do n't think it is his primary concern . |
| 26 | There 's a lot of conservatism in the vocal world here , and they sometimes come to performances to compare if it 's louder or softer ; I like big voices and I 'm trying to collect every rich voice I can , does n't matter if it 's in Novosibirsk where we heard Gorchakova , but what I 'm saying is that it has to be a complex , not just a voice and something else , or not just actor and a bit of voice . ’ |
| 27 | Now what I would like to say is that we 've made clear that we 're with certain very clear objectives in pushing forward , in saying that certain things had to be achieved and when I read the lilac piece of paper or whatever colour we want to call it . |
| 28 | What we were n't trying to say is that we make no contribution to the greenhouse effect … [ but ] to say that making Andrex from virgin fibre instead of waste causes less carbon dioxide to be released to the atmosphere . ’ |
| 29 | What we are trying to say is that we do n't have to look to our mothers for everything . |
| 30 | The other point I 'm trying to say is that we have to insure with a Department of Trade approved insurer , so that should anything , for any reason , ever happen to ourselves or a company , then the insurance company is still responsible for the claims and will meet them . |