Example sentences of "say that [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we 'll here very quickly from people who say that we 've devolved more money to schools . |
| 2 | Yeah I , I , I think that er the , the , the M S Society have er er say that we 've got eighty thousand members in the United Kingdom , Great Britain , Northern Ireland only problem is they appear to have eighty thousand different conditions |
| 3 | so , I must confess when I say that we 've had bad , like that time when Did you give er Lucy back her English ? |
| 4 | ‘ They say that we have become selfish and have taken too much from the Earth without giving anything back . |
| 5 | ‘ The ones who come back who are n't mutated to the point of monstrosity say that they 've seen it . |
| 6 | The police say that they 've had reports of sightings of Sir Roy around London . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the pair say that they 've had trouble in the past with vandalism and youths prowling around the back of the council owned flats . |
| 8 | and say that they 've got , have every right to do it . |
| 9 | Erm they are Yorkshire and Humberside which I think is probably related to the strength of orders and demand in that region , East Midlands where they , where it 's sort of consistent with a trend erm in the last few surveys where they say that they have achieved modest price rises erm and where costs have not been falling , erm and also Wales . |
| 10 | People say that they have gone to Switzerland . |
| 11 | They also say that they have discovered that this tends to produce two dramatically opposed views . |
| 12 | It extends , it seems , to a claim for compensation in respect of all the loss which the plaintiffs say that they have suffered as a result of the transaction concerning C.M.C. and the bakery , including the amounts which the plaintiffs have had to pay as guarantors and compensation for loss of earnings , loss of reputation and mental anguish . |
| 13 | the foresters attach to come before them men who work in their own ground , making ‘ hoes ’ to sow corn , although the King had no demesne there : and they say that they have made waste and purpresture if they do not their will for having peace ; from each man holding land they will have the skin of a lamb or a farthing , and they say that is their fee . |
| 14 | ‘ Here 's another of those men who run away and then say that they have forgotten who they are . |
| 15 | I am being polite about the way in which the Government have behaved when I say that they have dealt with our recommendations in a cavalier fashion . |
| 16 | THE world 's airlines say that they have carried a billion of the 5.5 billion people on Earth . |
| 17 | Officials say that they have tried to keep any disturbance to a minimum by limiting the closures to Sundays only . |
| 18 | One third of teachers say that they have had the use of INSET days to conduct their review : the same proportion have undertaken assessment of pupils especially for this purpose and have kept a diary as part of the review process . |
| 19 | Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ? |
| 20 | And er , nobody will phone you and say that you 've got to be here , there and everywhere . |
| 21 | Mind you when you think of it like that when you when you say that you 've got no mortgage and your kids grow up they do n't need your money and that and if you 're both in good jobs it is you do tend to think to yourself well at least lot lot longer than . |
| 22 | Can you put your hand on your heart and say that you have made it plain what he or she is allowed to do ( hopefully not unnecessarily restrictive ) and what he or she should not do ? |
| 23 | ‘ You say that you have heard nothing from him — as regards the future marriage , that is ? |
| 24 | Say that you have read about the execution of juveniles in the USA , in contravention of international human rights standards . |
| 25 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 26 | I 'm gon na ring them up and say that I 've found her ! |
| 27 | And say that I 've busted my bra strap ! |
| 28 | People say that I have changed as a person . |
| 29 | And I heard Monks say that he 'd seen Oliver in the street , and that he knew at once Oliver was the child he was looking for , although I could n't hear why . |
| 30 | But erm they say that he had used to go and collect it and that was what was fed to the pigs . |