Example sentences of "[prep] saying [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After saying it would produce a £200 facsimile-transmission unit designed to bring electronic mail to the person in the street , the PTT has finally acknowledged that the project is a non-starter . |
| 2 | A DEPRESSED mum has vanished with her three mischievous sons after saying she could not cope with long school holidays and mounting debts . |
| 3 | I suppose it 's their way of saying they can get at me whenever they want . |
| 4 | ‘ One of the other guests made a great point of saying she would never work with children or animals , ’ Sinitta explains . |
| 5 | You know , I mean , er , that is why it 's all coming out in the books , that 's why the , all these men , she 's sort of saying I 'll get my own back now , you know ! |
| 6 | The 43-year-old Fun Minister resigned after WEEKS of saying he would n't . |
| 7 | ’ Juror : ‘ Yeah ’ The judge then accused the juror of saying he would go to lunch whatever the time . |
| 8 | It was another way of saying there would be no condemnations . |
| 9 | It is a bit like saying one ca n't buy sugar loose in a supermarket but only in kilogram bags . |
| 10 | But living with another woman — it 's like saying you can do without men altogether . ’ |
| 11 | She 'd have to give this … person … something or it would spoil Sam 's holiday — which was like saying it would spoil his entire year . |
| 12 | If there were n't new and interesting things worth saying I would n't bother to carry on with my work |
| 13 | and erm therefore this year er there is a case for saying we shall start to accrue some of the backlog er to the extent , but only to the extent we will expected to be paid shortly thereafterwards . |
| 14 | AN Ulster school is considering action against its town 's deputy mayor for saying it should be shut down for teaching a new sex education project . |
| 15 | for saying I 'll give it your sister . |
| 16 | Hall is right to say that current Labour and Liberal parties can not take on the task of realignment , but would be equally correct in saying they ca n't be by-passed . |
| 17 | Perhaps the argumentative Balbindor had been correct in saying I should not have drunk from the waterfall springing from the Other Side . |
| 18 | Now I just do n't think that 's rea realistic , that 's different from saying you may have a bail system , cos that 's what I thought you were suggesting and for people to b come into the ring as pension fund managers , they would have to perhaps to put up securities of a million pounds each to o operate in this area and that if they behave badly , if funds went missing , if it was proved they were negligent , they would lose their million pounds bail , just as people lose bail when they do n't turn up to court . |
| 19 | SunSelect is due to make its WABI announcement on Wednesday May 5 at a gala in California with IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Unix System Labs and Sun Microsystems Inc there as licensees and SunSoft Inc saying it will bundle the software with Solaris ( UX No 428 , 431 , 432 ) . |
| 20 | Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunSelect is due to make its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface announcement today at a gala in California with IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc there as licensees and SunSoft Inc saying it will bundle the software with Solaris . |
| 21 | By saying they 'll shoot Liam Shakespeare if the Government do n't agree by Friday . |
| 22 | No one was quite sure whether this was a good idea , however , as some of the old party 's members refused to recognise the new party , though they hedged their bets by saying they might consider applying for membership . |
| 23 | The clubs countered by saying they would boycott a scheduled meeting between the WRU 's competition sub-committee and the leagues working party . |
| 24 | Sure enough , the entire church was gutted by fire and the next day the Church authorities responded by saying they would now seek to demolish the church . |
| 25 | So it 's normally brought to us either by , the neighbours ringing in or somebody passing by saying they can hear screaming . |
| 26 | Houston police are trying to find a man who has succeeded in getting teenage girls to pose nude for him by saying they will appear in a music video for NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK . |
| 27 | Camus concludes his study of absurdity by saying we must imagine Sisyphus happy . |
| 28 | Mrs er has er actually said that we should be getting some more money and then she spoilt it by saying we should be using the money we have n't got more er better use it and er maybe knocking the traffic li er islands out will save us a problem cos we 'll get a few kids knocked down and we wo n't have to bother with em . |
| 29 | Perhaps he could get off the hook by saying he would go in the morning ? |
| 30 | Two days before the funeral Henry was asked to give a short speech , and although he began by saying he would not be able to talk , did n't think he could get the words out , was no orator , ended , of course by accepting . |