Example sentences of "say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Westminster Hospital , say that Andrew , on of their patients , needs to be admitted but they are unable to find transport as no ambulance is available . |
| 2 | Most experts say that the happiest — and longest — relationships are based on close friendship and shared interests , not just strong feelings . |
| 3 | Many people say that sex is most fulfilling when it expresses the commitment , care , security and understanding of an exclusive friendship . |
| 4 | WE live at a time when reporters go to foreign countries where there is trouble and come back to write books in which they say that it was hard to make out what was going on . |
| 5 | They say that it wes the different claes that done it — the way the butler dressed — an it hed looked at the claes an taen a bad wey o the claes . |
| 6 | You 'll guess what happened when I say that I am now commanding the Company — and in the line I had a seraphic boy-lance-corporal as my sergeant-major . |
| 7 | They say that at the moment of death the whole of one 's past life flashes before one 's eyes . |
| 8 | Technology suppliers to the British hotel and restaurant industry say that their products are often under-exploited , because too little thought has been given to what the systems are supposed to achieve and too low a priority is given to staff training . |
| 9 | Then as soon as the last act goes up Bobby will ring for a doctor and say that Bunty 's had an accident . |
| 10 | I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this . |
| 11 | I 've had another word with Personnel and they say that even though I ca n't have any more full-timers , I can have a part-timer to help me with making the sandwiches in the morning and clearing up last thing at night . |
| 12 | Reports about light aircraft landing accidents often say that the aircraft bounced or ballooned , pitched nose-down and then flew into the runway in a series of worsening crashes , smashing the nose gear and engine . |
| 13 | Often they will comment that they did it deliberately , for some poor reason or other , or say that they could , of course , have touched down earlier if they had really tried . |
| 14 | ‘ You say that — with your grandfather drooling in his bed ! |
| 15 | First , an objector might try to press the fashionable distaste for the first-person perspective and say that the fact that I can not apply the theory to myself shows nothing except that one should not approach the philosophy of mind via the first person . |
| 16 | The behaviourist 's second line of defence is to distinguish between knowing and what is known , and say that the behavioural reduction applies only to the former . |
| 17 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
| 18 | Typically , three-year-olds , but not four-year-olds , say that Mary will look for the coin where it really is — in the blue box . |
| 19 | That is quite a lot ; but why be more ambitious and say that it makes the place of mind in Nature more intelligible to us ? |
| 20 | Just say that you do n't want to do it . ’ |
| 21 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 22 | Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ? |
| 23 | The is no doubt that polished tools look better , but some say that the extra expense is unnecessary . |
| 24 | And for those who say that some pubs are unsuitable for children because they might have some evil influence , then is n't it about time those pubs were cleaned up ? |
| 25 | I say that because I think it 's the logical way free rock climbing will progress . |
| 26 | There have been murmurs of discontent among manufacturers considering diversifying away from Macao , but businessmen say that the only impact so far has been a shift of orders from China to Macao . |
| 27 | The Russians say that work on Energiya and Buran has yielded more than 20 new metals , alloys and materials which can operate in temperatures from minus 253C to 800C . |
| 28 | ‘ If you say that capital punishment is a deterrent , how do you explain that 87 per cent of all murderers convicted over the last 10 years thought there still was capital punishment ? ’ |
| 29 | Those who attack the Senate say that it should be abolished , that it is useless and corrupt . |
| 30 | Those who defend it say that it repesents ‘ an area of moderation and wisdom in French democracy ’ and that both are sorely needed . |