Example sentences of "say that what [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we say that what we see is a mile away , we must mean that were we to move forward a mile , we would be ‘ affected with such and such ideas of touch ’ ; and so Berkeley concludes that the things we see are not the same as those we touch . |
| 2 | He had once heard an Englishman say that what he knew of nuclear physics could be written on the back of a blackcurrant . |
| 3 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 4 | The ASB is due to consider acquisition accounting later this year , but Mr Garner says that what it is currently proposing ‘ will not be a problem for us because it will not make any difference to the end product , just the presentation ’ . |
| 5 | You can take a B A I E examination without being a member of the association at any level because I 've said that what we should do is we should insist because Napier want to bring a lot of students in on this |
| 6 | Yet the girl had said that what he did , he did with the king 's warrant , and the prince 's approval . |
| 7 | I 'm not saying that what I 'm saying is that that we must all have at the back of our minds a a sort of considered opinion of what 's |
| 8 | Which is another way of saying that what he did , or is said to have done , at Highbury on Tuesday night , takes some believing . |
| 9 | The new chief executive of the Munich conglomerate , Heinrich von Pierer , told the Wall Street Journal that he is interested in one or more ‘ strategic partners ’ for Siemens Nixdorf , saying that what he is looking for is joint development and possibly manufacturing of a broad range of hardware with one or more competitors . |
| 10 | This was certainly not necessary for the decision of the case ; but though the resolution of the Court of Common Pleas was only a dictum , it seems to me clear that Lord Coke deliberately adopted the dictum , and the great weight of his authority makes it necessary to be cautious before saying that what he deliberately adopted as law was a mistake , and though I can not find that in any subsequent case this dictum has been made the ground of the decision , except in Fitch v. Sutton ( 1804 ) 5 East 230 , as to which I shall make some remarks later , and in Down v. Hatcher ( 1839 ) 10 Ad. & El . |
| 11 | her parents , but they , they do n't have their friends , in fact I 'm not sure that they did very much at all , I think that Myrie meant it when she said that what they wanted was the most peaceful sort of Christmas that you could possibly imagine , with no big teas , big meals or anything |
| 12 | ‘ The analysts finally said that what we were doing was not the problem — the problem was that we made it look as though the truth was being dragged out of us . |
| 13 | I said that what I would really like was a little place of my own with two people looking after me . |
| 14 | He said that what he needed was more contact with ordinary people . |
| 15 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 16 | He is able to say that what he believes is true , and behind such a statement he has sure and sufficient reasons of which he is fully persuaded . |
| 17 | Erm I must confess to doubting whether such a pool of talent exists and I share the views er of the Noble Lord , Lord Motterstone who in a very powerful and commonsense speech made this point an and a number of other ones , but I have to say that what I do think exists is the temptation to create posts for friends of the Government , a process of which has been going for far too long and I mem and I wonder if er members on the other side would defend this position as my Noble Friend Lord Allen said earlier , quite sincerely if , say , another party were in power before when such a time arrives it will then be of little avail for them to run around complaining , for they will have sown the seeds of their own dissatisfaction . |
| 18 | Er I ca n't , you know , there seems to be an inconsistency in so many people who are against national wars but er would say that what we need is a revolutionary situation in order to change things for the better within society . |
| 19 | I would just say that what we 've done , we looked at the hospital , we looked at the youth building and at the moment we 've come up with the idea of the s the back room , the second room across the corridor , erm where we actually store some of the T I C books and pamphlets . |
| 20 | He was noticing everything , the way the light played on a broken brick in the wall opposite and sometimes it looked hollow and sometimes it looked a bulge , which proved that you could n't say that what you saw , however carefully , scientifically , you analysed it , was a scientific fact . |