Example sentences of "say that [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I doubt if that is so I think to some extent we may be in what we are saying and doing , feeding the current which says that nobody in national politics could conceivably be honest or decent or competent in any way whatsoever , that to be a Member of the House of Commons or to be a Member of the Government is somehow to have the mark of put upon them .
2 Social learning theory can be applied in many cases but is too extensive when it says that nothing in the human being is innate and that everything must be learnt .
3 In the Quran , Allah says that everything in this universe vests absolutely in Allah ( Sura al-Maidah , ayat 17 ) and that the State is but a mere Trustee .
4 The report says that one in 10 customers were charged incorrectly by their bank or building society , one in five had wrangles over standing orders and one in seven had money incorrectly removed from their accounts .
5 Randi says that none of these feats would have been possible if researchers had followed his advice .
6 She says that none of the staff at the Southampton office has been made redundant , although several who have left have not yet been replaced .
7 There survives a copy of a letter sent to a priest Ælf. , almost certainly Ælfwine , which says that none of the royal councils are hidden from him , and asks for his intercession with the queen so that the writer might be given a fishery .
8 Gary Chapman says that lots of drivers start here in karting … its a good training ground for motor sport
9 It has been said that nobody with eyes in their heads or any appetite for the oddities and splendours of the human achievement or the natural scene can possibly be bored in Edinburgh .
10 ‘ You 're saying that something about me niggles at you ? ’
11 Just on that last point , it was suggested that we ought to be writing now , to these commissioners , saying that we as a parish council wanted to make comments to them when they were er in Nottinghamshire .
12 It is also possible that in some cases ‘ improved attitudes ’ is another way of saying that nothing of substance was achieved .
13 By saying that God ‘ transcends ’ the universe we are saying that none of the limitations that apply to finite life — such as being in a particular place — applies to God .
14 This of course is something I was aware of having witnessed a news conference with Miss Graf in mid-week , in which she very politely criticised her absent rivals saying that none of the top ranked players needed the vast amounts of money to be gained by playing in lucrative exhibition events .
15 Hong Kong officials were quoted as saying that none of the deportees , the first to be sent back since Patten 's arrival , had offered resistance .
16 She said that nothing of the sort would ever happen in her country , that the British are quite civilized , thank you , and that they make the rest of the world seem simply barbaric .
17 Amnesty International , in a report last December , said that nothing at home had changed ‘ to alleviate gross violations of human rights ’ .
18 He said that no-one from Europe had moved from Formula One to Indycars and been consistently successful .
19 The chauffeur said that everyone at the hospital was regularly updated on any changes to the hospital 's corporate goals .
20 I , I know Carolyn said that they in the end
21 For several decades most scientists assumed that the discrepancy was too negligible to worry about : after all , no one said that everything in the Universe should work perfectly .
22 Miro once said that everything in his paintings and sculptures was derived from something he saw .
23 We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date .
24 I said that someone in Montefiore 's position should check his facts before sounding off , and advised him to campaign for more resources all round instead of trying to trade one disadvantaged group off against another .
25 But Benskins said that none of these things was important . ’
26 Dr Raymond Hintz head of paediatric endocrinology at Stanford University , for instance , said that none of the adults in his studies became diabetic .
27 Thirteen per cent said that none of these factors made any difference , or said they did n't know .
28 However , 45% of the men in out sample said that none of these practices came into foreplay for them .
29 Many systems and many faces may have changed over the last year or two and I do n't imagine you would believe me if I said that none of these changes had saddened me but , in a changing market-place , the basics have n't changed and the most basic precept of all is that there are no healthy banks where there are no health customers to sustain them .
30 A union spokesman said that none of the people arrested were from the sacked Timex workforce .
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