Example sentences of "saying [conj] [pron] [am/are] [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 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Some of these children are saying that they are not black or that they do not want to be associated with other black people . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I can only conclude by saying that I am very sorry the situation has developed as it has . |
| 13 | You 're saying that I 'm pretty hopeless at everything , but somebody might , just might , be prepared to put up with my teaching . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I was simply saying that I 'm not a total stranger to your country . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Now that she 's gone you wo n't always be saying that you 're off to the pictures with her . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're saying that you are n't involved with Harry Martin ? ’ |
| 21 | They 're sort of saying that you are really testing your |
| 22 | Now I offer that as a little illustration of the difficulties of saying that there are deep national dispositions between one nation and another , which exist inside in some sort of permanent , rock-like way . |
| 23 | IN spite of all the encouragement handed out by England in the shape of team trips here and there , it goes without saying that there are always individuals who , at the end of the day , will feel that they have not had a fair crack of the whip . |
| 24 | Now that seems to me , that might induce er slightly might do , but I could I I think that , wha I what I thought you were saying was different from what you ended up saying and I 'm not sure which |
| 25 | So in other words , we 're saying if they 're off sick , erm , they decide to go out and , you know , do something else to earn some money , then they would n't be able to claim under their policy . |
| 26 | And I was saying but I 'm not cos I mean like day weeks he goes yeah but you 're just as bad as all the rest of them , you would be and he would n't say anything , you know , he would n't even tell me that . |