Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] saying that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The man is saying that you keep the noise down , and I am saying that you do what the man says . ’ |
| 2 | That 's what Julie and I were saying that when you live on your own you get a bit like that . |
| 3 | R.B. Yes , another teacher mentioned this when I talked to her and I was saying that it seemed to me that it was a blind spot . |
| 4 | and I was saying that it 's a big boat that used to go across the world . |
| 5 | Because I was joking I 'd said to her erm about er , you know my daddy right is er you know , th right , you know mum and daddy lived in Edinburgh and I was saying that my daddy was about the fees in erm Gleneagles , my daddy 's er , a member of Gleneagles |
| 6 | erm , so that if , if they then go to an appeal er , I was talking to this planning officer and I was saying that I think I 'll consult them , he said I do n't think you 'll need to he said , and of what you 've done so far is pretty good and I can get access to all the letters that have been written in , in objecting into the into the homes |
| 7 | I have n't dreamed for years , and I was saying that to the girls , I had like , three nights of a really scary dream . |
| 8 | ‘ And you 're saying that our space is like that too ? ’ |
| 9 | I was talking to a woman and she was saying that young people were n't the same in her day . |
| 10 | ‘ No names , no pack drill , but I know somebody who works for her and she was saying that Diana will be jolly pleased to have a lump sum to spend instead of having to go to him for her money . |
| 11 | Well I mean I a asked Christine yesterday and she was saying that because this is n't a project any more it 's actually supposed to in the end of week three . |
| 12 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 13 | decorators and they were saying that their plumbers they charge a hundred pound a day ! |
| 14 | And they were saying that you do n't give , the local erm MP was saying you know people just give their kids up and walk away . |
| 15 | And they were saying that when they lick each others |
| 16 | Yeah , and there 's another couple of guys and they were saying that how strict the training was when they first took it on you know that the their masters used to beat them and everything , into submission , s said they had to have complete submission before they could train them to be what they were , you know , bring them up , teach them and train them |
| 17 | Now the thing that seems to be the most interesting on the er face value of it , is er how it 's going to affect fuel consumption and transport , and he is saying that they 're considering whether further changes should be made in the taxation of er fuel and vehicles . |
| 18 | And he 's saying that that flesh can have something , that human nature can undergo a miracle ! |
| 19 | I have spoken to Ian Wright extensively about this and he was saying that Hendrix was one of his three musical idols . |
| 20 | I wa I was talking to erm Mr the other day and he was saying that when he started at the Co-op it was a , a very , very good place to work . |
| 21 | And he was saying that it 's erm a speaking dic dictionary , that 's what they 're going to researching for |
| 22 | Erm he , he then goes on basically erm to talk about spreading political propaganda which was obviously very important to his cause erm an and he was saying that basically , you know , suddenly with the rise of er peasant associations erm everyone would , would say down with imperialism , down with the warlords , down with the corrupt officials erm , you know , and that these , you know , basically he , he 's then highlighting the fact that these political slogans have , have found erm have found , you know you know er importance with the , with the young the middle aged an and the old but basically obviously he 's , he 's trying to target the school because that 's where he 's hoping where the re revolution 'll start . |
| 23 | But I am saying that the phrase ‘ there occur mental processes ’ does not mean the same sort of thing as ‘ there occur physical processes ’ , and , therefore , that it makes no sense to conjoin or disjoin the two . |
| 24 | We can pick over whether the peak age is 15 or 18 , but I am saying that crime has doubled . |
| 25 | Old friends from many years ago they probably would n't call me a friend but I am saying that er very er |
| 26 | No I 'm not , but I 'm saying that some people probably have a natural , a natural teaching ability . |
| 27 | No , no , but I know that , but I 'm saying that that 's what I meant , that 's what I meant . |
| 28 | Only it may feel like such a disaster that , that they feel they ca n't do anything about it , er but you 're saying that that is n't , is n't necessarily the case ? |
| 29 | But you are saying that hospitals must pay more attention to the justification of , for performing an X-ray ? |
| 30 | One of the girls , today , she wasn' say she was n't sure , but she was saying that she heard that perhaps the exam structure you have to incorporate all three phases of the |