Example sentences of "say [is] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Say is said to be distraught after a domestic dispute at his home . |
| 2 | Erm C Forty One is one of the er policies which you say is ignored by the suggested amendment . |
| 3 | Sometimes we are not convincing because what we say is belied by our actions — for instance , a woman who wears a permanent fixed smile while trying to reprimand a subordinate , or when returning faulty goods to a shop . |
| 4 | The organisers hope their movement , which they say is supported by many Muslim organisations , will persuade the Government to order an inquiry into the Rushdie affair . |
| 5 | Everything I do or say is turned against me . |
| 6 | It is also considered unlucky to pay the whole of a doctor 's bill , a superstition which may prove important as the years go by , considering what some people say is happening to the NHS . |
| 7 | Everything that my hon. Friend says is echoed by the business men I meet . |
| 8 | Everything Rossi says is illustrated by the story of Humanae Vitae , which proved to be the central crisis of his pontificate . |
| 9 | ‘ It is sufficient to say that in Maskell v. Horner Lord Reading C.J. , referring to these authorities , and in particular to the advice given by Willes J. in Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton — where that learned judge said that he had ‘ always understood that when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received ’ — said that ‘ such claims made in this form of action are treated as matters of ordinary practice and beyond discussion . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for the performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received . |
| 11 | Whatever he says is bound to be controversial , though that does not matter as long as it is not provocative . |
| 12 | Everything Nicolas or Bridget says is wrapped in inverted commas , which open as the character opens his mouth and close as he closes it . |
| 13 | He 's always had an anti-Leeds stance so whatever he says is going to be biased . |
| 14 | Successive visits by Motherwell and Airdrie have seen attendances recorded at 3,370 and 3,079 respectively ; clearly insufficient numbers to maintain the running of a full-time outfit at Dens Park , let alone allow the investment manager Simon Stainrod says is required on the playing staff . |
| 15 | All that remains to be said is incised on stone , and the living go around silently with long faces and glances that mean ‘ I ca n't tell you how sorry I am , but I do know how you feel . ’ |
| 16 | If what is said is contradicted by what is seen — that is when the words do not ‘ match ’ the facial expression — then , to the astute observer , it is the words which will be disregarded , and what is seen will a believed . |
| 17 | The " something " which is said is called by Guillaume an " import of meaning " ( 1984 : 120 – 2 ) and corresponds on the linguistic level to the lexeme or non-grammatical part of the word 's meaning . |
| 18 | When giving orders , much of the impact of What is said is derived from the stage management of the Whole procedure . |
| 19 | So you mean everything I 'm saying is going on tape ? |
| 20 | After another brief pause , the speaker continues , using and to indicate that what she is going to say is connected to what she has just said . |
| 21 | The litigant in person may just concoct a statement , in which case assistance as to the sort of things to say is provided in a booklet entitled Small Claims in the County Court . |
| 22 | The medium-term one I would say is to do with broadly the attitudes of society towards education , and those attitudes have in fact undergone a fairly substantial change over the last ten years or so . |