Example sentences of "saying [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm you know er sometimes I 'm sorry that it 's come to this because like this family er they made a bomb out of it we 're not saying that we 're not denying them that at all . |
| 2 | And they 're saying They are saying that we 're only ones they get pallets like that from . |
| 3 | Nor did he go to the Rousseau extreme , saying that we 're basically noble savages . |
| 4 | But is there not a case for saying that we are currently witnessing the historic counter attack of Christian Democracy , which has summoned up the traditions of Eastern Europe to redress the balance of the West ? |
| 5 | He placed the course in what was , to our minds , a very reasonable perspective , saying that we were here to teach our particular specialities , but obviously there would have to be give and take , in that we would adapt ourselves to the students ' needs , and they would adapt themselves in turn to the sort of thing which we felt capable of teaching . |
| 6 | Referring to falling numbers in the League , she reiterated the words of our foundress , Margaret Fletcher , saying that we were still ‘ a force to be reckoned with . ’ |
| 7 | so I 'm stuck for the next three weeks and half a week because I , you know I get the , August bank holiday I get two days , saying that they 're probably going up to Grans for a week in the holidays er sometime to stay with her particularly with her being on her own as well this year |
| 8 | But it 's not a question er of saying erm of saying it 's , he 's saying that they are already doing this and that |
| 9 | The potentially harmful beings may be described by the adjective yabud ( bad , harmful , ugly ) , but whenever thus designated , the speaker will invariably qualify this by saying that they are not ‘ truly bad ’ because they only cause harm if a person breaks a rule , or inadvertently falls into a trap . |
| 10 | Some of these children are saying that they are not black or that they do not want to be associated with other black people . |
| 11 | Robert Dexter flew home with Prior last night and Carlisle Flint have gone on record saying that they are not interested in a change of team . |
| 12 | Oracle Corp and US West Inc duly announced details of their alliance yesterday , saying that they were jointly developing a multimedia information server to enable access to information at any time from any place in any form — via personal computer , facsimile machine or a cellular or conventional telephone — and eventually via a screenphone , an interactive television set or a personal digital assistant . |
| 13 | Table 4.6 shows that worry and sadness were expressed by nearly half our samples of dementia sufferers at both time periods ; loneliness was less often admitted , though one in five to a quarter of the samples did admit it ; while saying that they were not very or not at all happy was the least common sentiment , this being expressed by approximately only one in six of the samples . |
| 14 | Her mother answered her , using a phrase that so many people unthinkingly use , by saying that they were not going to have another baby because ‘ After all , it nearly killed me having you . ’ |
| 15 | The judges would , in effect , be saying that they were not willing to sanction the disbarment of a barrister pursuant to unfair procedures , and would be insisting that the matter should be handled again more appropriately . |
| 16 | And you 'd pi be tempted into saying that they were probably not correlated , either positively or negatively . |
| 17 | President Menem , who was not obliged by the Constitution to call an election , was reported as saying that one was not necessary since his brother was Duhalde 's " natural successor as established by the law " . |
| 18 | If he ( the magistrate ) is saying that everything is all right , than this is all lies . ’ |
| 19 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
| 20 | That is why I keep saying that I am not only interested in our knowing more about our faith but also in our putting more faith into our lives . |
| 21 | I can only conclude by saying that I am very sorry the situation has developed as it has . |
| 22 | You 're saying that I 'm pretty hopeless at everything , but somebody might , just might , be prepared to put up with my teaching . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I was simply saying that I 'm not a total stranger to your country . ’ |
| 24 | I stand here , I am not a perfect minister because I am over forty I 've got children that are not too awkward but erm , could be awkward and , I have n't a spouse ah and ah I stand here saying that I 'm not good at everything I 'm good with young people , I 'm not o only good with old people I try to do my best . |
| 25 | Now , having started in that light , I may be going to disappoint you by saying that I 'm not in fact going to spend the next erm fifty minutes or so talking about the moral , political , philosophical implications of Darwinism . |
| 26 | Let me finish in a very positive note in saying that I 'm as concerned as the speaker to which I reply that that day will be reached and reached soon , please God , when we can sit down together and share fully in the sacrament of the lord 's supper . |
| 27 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 28 | No , I I 'm gi it 's not my , I I would just look at mathematical skills and saying that you 're not really yo you do n't really mean mathematical skills . |
| 29 | Now that she 's gone you wo n't always be saying that you 're off to the pictures with her . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're saying that you are n't involved with Harry Martin ? ’ |