Example sentences of "say [that] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that at a certain point it will stop expanding and start contracting again , back into the original primal seed . |
| 2 | They say that at the moment of death the whole of one 's past life flashes before one 's eyes . |
| 3 | An active member of the police Superintendents Association , Mr McLean says that at a recent meeting disgust was expressed at the Met 's failure to hit back at criticism of this kind — such as the comment by Bernie Grant , MP for Tottenham , that the divisional chief in his constituency was ‘ incompetent . ’ |
| 4 | And she says that at the moment she 's more interested in just having fun than dating . |
| 5 | He says that at the beginning of the relationship he wrestled with himself , knowing that he should back off from Mandy . |
| 6 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 7 | He says that at the end of the Laws of Moses one finds the following words : " Moses , having heard the words of God , transmitted them to the Jews . " |
| 8 | Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise . |
| 9 | ‘ In the gospels , Sir John , Christ says that at the end of the world the very heavens will rock and the planets fall to earth in a fiery blaze . ’ |
| 10 | Exactly yes we 'll take a breathing space until the new year I mean Neil says that at the moment he 'd be quite happy to get into a job where if he was a good worker he could progress in the job and I said an what about doing your radio repairs in the evening , but he just , he said yes . |
| 11 | I have just said that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Irish Defence Minister taken part in any conference talks . |
| 12 | According to Computerworld , it has said that at the next APPN Implementors ' Workshop , set for this week , it will seek input from other vendors on how to set priorities for future enhancements , and it has set the price for reverse engineering the code at $25,000 , a lower figure than many had predicted . |
| 13 | It has been said that at the court of Poitiers " the gilded youth of Poitou and Aquitaine breathed an air that seemed to belong to some tale of chivalry " . |
| 14 | It might be said that at the time of the signing of the document he was in no position to resist both the seizure of all his goods under a distress and the forfeiture of his lease with no practical possibility of relief . |
| 15 | Mrs McWilliams had said that at the Royal Samaritan Hospital she had told the anaesthetist about her fears because of what had happened before but he had reassured her . |
| 16 | ‘ I do not consider that it can be said that at the moment of striking the child , he [ the father ] had the necessary evil intent or wilfulness to justify a finding either that he assaulted the child or that he wilfully ill-treated her . |
| 17 | Mr Teague said that at no time was Paul Jones ever hit with a cane or whip , at no time was he tied upside down and hit , he was never forced to get up early to feed the animals , or ill-treated in any way whatsoever . |
| 18 | Questioned by Mr Macfadyen , he said that at no time had Mackie used the phrase profit warning or give the impression such an announcement was about to be made . |
| 19 | But as the same people said that at every quarter day for the past year nobody took much notice . |
| 20 | Doug McGilvray , Weldex 's managing director , said that at a stroke , the move had removed its biggest competitor in Scotland and doubled its own crane-hire fleet . |
| 21 | Mr Wilcox said that at a time of increased pressures to reduce public spending , new strategies on housing were needed urgently . |
| 22 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 23 | He said that at the original trial , the magazine had no idea £25,000 had been paid to Mrs Sutcliffe by Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones - and nor had the jury . |
| 24 | He said that at the recent mission in Cambridge Billy Graham had taught the grossest doctrines . |
| 25 | I ONCE read a book by Bertrand Russell in which he said that at the age of seven years ( as I remember ) he got up one night to see whether there were , in fact , four angels round his bed : |
| 26 | Zak , keeping up the tension , said that at the last of our brief stops at minor stations he had been handed a telex about Angelica 's missing friend Steve . |
| 27 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
| 28 | Antonia , talking in London , said that at the end of the day ‘ you are responsible for your own actions ’ . |
| 29 | The Victorians said that at the dinner table you should not discuss sex , politics or religion . |
| 30 | Addressing the Assembly , Yeltsin said that at the forthcoming Congress he expected an attempt to retreat from reforms . |