Example sentences of "say that [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gwennap Pit was originally an amphitheatre created by mining subsidence , and it is said that tinners held their cock-fighting ‘ mains ’ ( matches ) in it , but in the eighteenth century John Wesley preached his fiery sermons to the large crowds of tinners and their families who gathered here . |
| 2 | Furthermore , most migrants defined themselves as English speakers : it must be said that Jamaicans consider themselves speakers of English , and are offended when ignorant English people inquire what their mother tongue might be . |
| 3 | Now I think it 's in Alice in Wonderland , that it is said that words mean what I intend them to mean . |
| 4 | It is often said that children have their lives before them and to die before they have had a chance to develop their personalities and lives seems particularly cruel . |
| 5 | Miss Claire Cannon , prosecuting , said that tests showed he had 74 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 6 | The ‘ sheriff ’ came out and said that Customs wanted us to fly to Darwin for clearance , but we begged for mercy and he let us stay and gave us a ride to a lodge in the police wagon . |
| 7 | They were Asian ones — I could tell that from the label , but he said that Asians had one more ( or was it one less ? ) toe than the Indian ones and different ears . |
| 8 | An easy way of sort of getting round it is to say that adapters do it better , and innovators do it differently . |
| 9 | That 's to say that men embody themselves in partial versions of themselves , and then , in order to realize themselves more fully , they have to overcome by many kinds of struggle this previous realization . |