Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must remember that in 1600 , when Galileo was at Padua , the Inquisition had burned Giordano Bruno to death for daring to say that he did not believe in transubstantiation of bread into body and wine into the blood of Christ at the Eucharist . |
| 2 | It does prevent us from daring to say that a subject becomes part of education because you teach it in a school , or at a CAT or in a university . |
| 3 | And we might still be doubtful of the existence of causally effective mathematical facts , without wishing to say that no mathematical beliefs can therefore be justified . |
| 4 | Otherwise a very ‘ macho ’ man might feel embarrassed at having to say that he feels he is living as a fragile teenage girl . |
| 5 | He had not long declared that poetry was a ‘ mug 's game ’ ; and Rupert Doone , not the most accomplished of public speakers , got rather tied up by trying to say that Eliot was not himself a mug and yet somehow implying that , for saying such a thing he must be . |