Example sentences of "say that [pron] saw [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says that she saw an ad in a newspaper . |
| 2 | In his budget speech Neville Chamberlain had justified a £10 increase in the tax allowance for second and subsequent children by saying that he saw a time not too far distant ‘ when countries of the British Empire will be crying out for more citizens of the right breed , and when we in this country shall not be able to supply the demand . |
| 3 | Although he ran for office saying that he saw no need to raise taxes , he put them up by $1.8 billion in 1990 , the biggest increase ever seen in his largely affluent , suburban state . |
| 4 | Lalumière , in an address to the Royal Institute for International Affairs in London on Feb. 28 , 1991 , said that she saw the Council of Europe as an important institutional link between western and eastern Europe , particularly in the field of human rights . |
| 5 | On the day I was born , Thomas Cook and Son 's were offering an all-in holiday on the Riviera for twenty-eight pounds and sixteen shillings : there were outrages in Ulster , and the Secretary of State for Air said that he saw no future for commercial aviation in Europe . |
| 6 | An old man with only one eye said that he saw the Virgin Mary standing behind Gabriel , dressed in purple and green . |
| 7 | He declined to speculate on dates , except to say that he saw no sign of it happening next year ( 1992 ) ; there was too much backlog to be mopped up . |
| 8 | Although Woolf stated that ‘ there is no single cause of riots ’ ( para 9.23 ) it may not be too great a distortion to say that he saw the lack of legitimacy of the prison for its inmates as the key factor in explaining the disorders . |