Example sentences of "[verb] say [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The famous American film star , W C Fields , has been known to earn as much as £1,000 a day and yet he has said that his greatest thrill in life is the luxury of stretching out at night between freshly laundered sheets . |
2 | Suffice to say that his repeated harking-back to the subject did not please those islanders who considered the issue long since laid to rest . |
3 | But I 'm bound to say that his recent experience at Barnes may be having some effect . ’ |
4 | Arguing against those who said that women could not be ordained , the Anglican theologian of the last generation Leonard Hodgson comments that to say ‘ that a woman is incapable of receiving the priestly or episcopal character involves saying that her sexual differentiation carries with it a deficiency in spiritual receptivity and power ’ . |
5 | Having said that their newly-released album Going Blank Again is likely to be one of the better buys of the year and tonight 's showing should not have put anyone off . |
6 | Chairman er first of all erm local is not erm having said that my straight run at the moment , erm future the decision of the erm Council Golfing Application . |
7 | Having said that my two roles models , if you like , are Jean-Pierre Rives and Michael Jones . |
8 | Then Simon had said that his eldest brother was lucky , winner takes all . |
9 | Addressing the Slovak National Council on June 23 Meciar had said that his new government would in July put forward a declaration of Slovak sovereignty ( not independence ) for approval by delegates . |
10 | Er with one T V commercial and yet you 've said that your initial thrust will be erm in three areas . |
11 | Since ancient times , the wise ones have said that our greatest quest in life is self-knowledge . |
12 | In modern times , psychologists have said that our unconscious mind , which powers our inbuilt desires , is simply another name for God . |
13 | What if we wanted to say that our true self was not even our desires or inclinations or capacities ? |