Example sentences of "[was/were] saying to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We think , but we do n't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors . |
| 2 | Many girls were saying to me , ‘ I ca n't cope with having breasts , the hassle it brings , the fear of rape or the jokes and remarks from boys , the idea that I must be a slag or a ‘ goer ’ , so rather than try to deal with the whole world ( which I ca n't ) , I 'll just turn all my anger inwards against myself , against the thing I can control : my body . ’ |
| 3 | It they were saying to me ‘ Korda , we 're pissed off with our records getting to 32 in the charts — what do we do about it ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ A British guy running 10.04 , ’ they were saying to each other . |
| 5 | Not only was the daughter they loved dead , but they were saying to themselves : ‘ If only … ’ |
| 6 | She wondered what they were saying to each other . |
| 7 | The CVR allows the investigator to know what the members of the flight crew were saying to each other , and to some extent what they were thinking , at relevant times during the flight . |
| 8 | I found myself constantly making a connection between what new families were saying to me about what they found most helpful from a social worker and what I as a social worker find most helpful from a team leader . |
| 9 | Kingsley Paige dealers were saying to their old clients : " Everything you 've read , heard , or suspected about Harvard , I can assure you is only half the story . |
| 10 | I had told them what others were saying to me : people were working hard behind the scenes and publicity could be dangerous . |
| 11 | Six men were saying to the other six : Whatever else divides us , whatever else is between us , only one thing matters . |
| 12 | No one then had time to utter what he dreaded ; but afterwards , though those about the king held their peace doggedly , and spoke only of phenomenally bad weather against which no man could guard , in the ranks men were saying to one another that this was no natural storm , that there had never been known so strange and violent a tempest , that it was sent out of malice against them , either by Owen himself , or by those stiff-necked Franciscans of Llanfaes whose house the king had burned , and who were allies of Owen and the devil to the last man . |
| 13 | And they were saying to themselves , ‘ Why should time be the same for everyone ? |
| 14 | It was as though they were saying to me , at last you 're doing something worthwhile and respectable . |
| 15 | I could n't understand what you you were saying to Iris though . |
| 16 | Well I s I were saying to Irene , I says did you ever get one ? |
| 17 | And I said , and you were saying to me , what is it that you want ? |
| 18 | ‘ I mean , ’ he was saying to Caroline , 'she 'd bring something to the table and I 'd have to ask what it was . |
| 19 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 20 | He felt as if his address was saying to Broch : ‘ Do n't be afraid , you have been afraid enough for us . |
| 21 | ‘ There , Mr Cottle , ’ Mary Ann was saying to the traveller in jelly , as she passed him the bread and butter , ‘ this 'll put roses in your cheeks . ’ |
| 22 | I know what I was saying to myself , but myself was also my body ? |
| 23 | I fully understood what she was saying to you the day you visited Kinghorn , which is why I almost burst out laughing . ’ |
| 24 | That 's what I was saying to Dennis , at any rate . |
| 25 | ‘ And then they painted the walls of his office with a chemical that made him lose his mind , ’ she was saying to her brother Phil , who was sitting next to her . |
| 26 | ‘ I love these meetings , ’ he was saying to Meryl . |
| 27 | I said I had to piss , but I ran out of the house and walked around the streets wondering what the fuck to do and trying to imagine what Dad was saying to Mum and how she was taking it . |
| 28 | This was not what God was saying to him , it was what Demian was saying to himself . |
| 29 | This was not what God was saying to him , it was what Demian was saying to himself . |
| 30 | On–y the other day she was saying to me that people with no parents did n't like being asked questions . ’ |