Example sentences of "say that [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is certainly true that in Western Ireland today you will hear those who say that in his teens William Joyce was a traitor who betrayed his own people to the Black and Tans . ’ |
| 2 | They say that until his death he cared for their mother , who 's disabled with polio . |
| 3 | John Lloyd , producer of Not The Nine O'Clock News , Spitting Image and Blackadder , says that for his generation of university students 20 years ago Python was the seminal programme . |
| 4 | Schoener 's globe of the world then known shows Japan a few hundred miles off Mexico ; the historian López de Gomara says that in his negotiations with the Emperor Magellan always insisted that the Moluccas were ‘ no great distance from Panama , and the Gulf of San Miguel which Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered ’ . |
| 5 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 6 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 7 | But I ca n't I find it hard to explain why the after such a good performance against West Ham , But you know , it 's just all over , be saying that about his side second half now wo n't he , because they 've just put one point about a nine , and they 're a good side . |
| 8 | In December of that year Dr. Yeats again wrote to Whitbread on this subject , saying that since his previous letter ‘ a paper war has been carried on between my opponents and myself … |
| 9 | She said that despite his little weaknesses ( here Carole thought of Grace 's bruised bum ) , she had always found Sir Ralph to be a proper gentleman . |
| 10 | As early as 1879 , the union secretary was reporting in consternation : " so highly are they prized that one master who employs 20 girls vauntingly said that with his girls and the … foreman , he could carry on the work of his establishment , dispensing with journeymen ! " |
| 11 | He said that during his recent visit to Moscow , President Gorbachev had given a warning that the failure of East Germany 's reform process would not only destabilise the GDR but also have ‘ serious repercussions ’ for perestroika in the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | He said that during his recent visit to Moscow , President Gorbachev had given a warning that the failure of East Germany 's reform process would not only destabilise the GDR but also have ‘ serious repercussions ’ for perestroika in the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | Mr Waite said that during his captivity he endured torture , a mock execution and four years solitary confinement , including a period in which he lay blindfolded in a foetal position day and night with his hands and feet chained together . |
| 14 | Selahattin Simsek said that during his interrogation , police officers tortured him for 23 consecutive days , but he confessed to nothing more than ‘ a certain sympathy ’ for the PKK . |
| 15 | Gen. Tadeusz Wilecki took over as Chief of General Staff of the Polish Army on Aug. 12 , replacing Gen. Zdzislaw Stelmaszuk , who said that during his five years in command , the army had been reduced from 412,000 to 217,000 soldiers . |
| 16 | Gen. Tadeusz Wilecki took over as Chief of General Staff of the Polish Army on Aug. 12 , replacing Gen. Zdzislaw Stelmaszuk , who said that during his five years in command , the army had been reduced from 412,000 to 217,000 soldiers . |
| 17 | He blamed politicians and some sections of the media for whipping up anxiety about mortgage repossessions and said that for his company marital breakdown rather than poverty was still the main reason for such repossessions . |
| 18 | One gentleman said that on his 65th birthday his sole thought had been , not the hope that his grandchildren would send a card , but that never again would the manilla envelope summoning him to do jury service tumble through his letterbox . |
| 19 | I daresay he said that to his disciples , only that bit was censored . |
| 20 | He 's been , said that to his wife there touching you up at his side . |
| 21 | Murray said that before his arrest he had become aware drugs were being taken . |
| 22 | An Indian teacher said that in his school Asian children 's names were almost invariably mispronounced . |
| 23 | One of the psychiatrists I spoke to while preparing this book said that in his therapy groups for people with anxieties , he asked them to make lists of their day 's worries . |
| 24 | My informant said that in his view this was certainly not the case . |
| 25 | My mother said that in his South Yorkshire village Methodists had been looked down upon . |
| 26 | He said that in his opinion the lift had stopped due to the lift buttons being pressed rapidly and randomly , or through a mechanical fault . |
| 27 | De Klerk said that in his recent meetings with the Presidents of Zaïre , Mozambique , Côte d'Ivoire and Zambia , all had agreed that South Africa should play a positive part in regional co-operation and development . |
| 28 | I 'm sorry , I just wanted to make a couple of points in response to erm things that people have said in relation to my opening statement , erm Mr Brook er mentioned the fact that er none of the employe none of the new settlement proposals of which he was aware , erm included an employment element , erm I just wanted to place on record the fact that our suggested reworking of policy H two does provide for an explicit land er amount of land for employment purposes , erm as part of the new settlement location , I wanted to say that because I , I 'm not invited to appear on your employment day , and I do feel that this is an important component of the the H two strategy , and clearly that employment component will be drawn from the Greater York allocation , the second point , Mr Sexton erm I believe said that in his view you could not find a site for a larger new settlement er within the or outside the Greater York er greenbelt , erm which would not result in physical coalescence with the existing villages in the area , now I 'm not sure whether he was referring to any particular size of larger new settlement , but I invite you to look at the er land range at one to fifty thousand er map of the area , and you will see that the area outside the greenbelt is characterized by erm a very rural area with sporadic villages , and my believe is that there are erm sites available within that area which could accommodate a larger new settlement , the planning point is of course the larger the new settlement becomes , I think the less that that the reduced number of sites you will have available to accommodate erm that proposal , because of its scale , and the third aspect I want to comment on Mr Cunnane and Mr Thomas erm said that Barton Willmore had not made a need argument for the new settlement , well if I 'm not mistaken that 's what we spent most of this morning discussing under policy H one , and I do n't erm I do n't wish , and I do n't suppose that I 'd be invited to repeat the comments made by Mr Grigson this morning , I do n't think there 's any need for that , but that establishes in our mind very clearly there is a need for a new settlement in the range of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , erm in the period up to two thousand and six , and I wo n't say anything more on that . |
| 29 | Its guidlines state that the bypass would have to be within a hundred yards of the road or the conditions intolerable before the property would be bought , though the Judge Mr Justice Latham said that in his view those guidelines were a shambles . |
| 30 | Stephen Maund , agent for the Conservative Party Association in Chester , said that in his letter of resignation , the duke cited the Housing and Urban Development Bill as the reason . |