Example sentences of "be saying [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 do you see , do you understand the basis on what you 're saying on that then ?
2 What I think we 're saying on this side of the house , I do n't know if we 're saying it loud enough or it 's going to have effect , is that we must reduce the number of rules and regulations , you do n't actually need the body which the honourable member 's talking about .
3 Liam I can hear everything you 're saying on this Meg you know , really clearly .
4 Well the , the first ones that we made going down from here , the car 's making a racket , the stereo 's like on full blast you ca n't hear anything we 're saying at all .
5 I 'm still having a bit of difficulty reconciling those what you 're saying with those sorts of lines put to us previously .
6 So , in my experience certainly down in the Sussex area , there 's , there 's great opportunity for people who have something worthwhile saying , who understand how to repackage what they 're saying in such a way that it will keep local radio audiences listening , and who are prepared to learn the minimum techniques and skills necessary to come across reasonably well .
7 Oh we never had to do what you 're saying in any other games so why the hell should I have to do it now ?
8 Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will contrive to listen to what I am saying on this complicated matter .
9 ‘ I am saying to these people … if they have got information they should come out now and speak publicly . ’
10 But ( c ) what you are saying about these other occasions is not directly evident .
11 Gradually , each successive shot brings us closer to the action and eventually to the actions of individuals , allowing us to see their expressions and hear whatever it is they are saying to each other .
12 We are saying to those councillors , ’ Wo n't pay , ca n't say ’ ; in other words , ’ If you are not prepared to obey the law and pay your rightful contribution to the cost of the local services which , as locally elected representatives , you have a say in providing , it is unjustifiable for you to have any influence , through your votes , on the amount of local tax that is levied in your area . ’
13 ‘ What we are saying to those responsible is , ‘ stop ’ .
14 ‘ I am sorry , I simply do not understand , I can not follow what you are saying at all , ’ Alida Thorne said .
15 He is less intense than Abbado , and sometimes by that much the less effective ; but his tactful phrasing , his light , well-balanced response to what the characters are saying at any given moment , and perhaps most of all to the expressive colour in the scoring , is wholly admirable .
16 So when you compare what the politicians are saying in this election , ask yourself these questions .
17 And then , immediately , I said to myself , well , you 've been saying to these men [ his captors ] ‘ When you 're in a tight corner , renounce violence ’ .
18 In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ .
19 ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage .
20 Colleagues in local government have been saying for some time that the Government have said that , at some point , the revenue collection services in local authorities would be privatised and would go out to tender .
21 Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem .
22 I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so .
23 ‘ What will Sellafield be saying about this mud in ten years time ? ’
24 How dare she , he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page , how dare she enjoy reading books when he could n't ?
25 what are they gon na be saying to those new recruits about the dangers of bullying ?
26 Is it really any better to be saying to another religious tradition what John Hick presumably says , namely : ‘ Your God is really my God ’ , than to be saying with Polycarp and the Proconsul : ‘ Your God does n't exist ’ ?
27 First of all you 're misrepresenting what I 'm saying about those figures
28 Also er saw er Nick last week and he 's agreed that we can offer a similar sort of training scheme around the force people apply just for er a one day course so what I 'm saying to any community affairs staff
29 Hey I can hear what I 'm saying with these erm earphones .
30 Yeah you were saying about you said you said about erm the insurance , you were saying about that and what you were saying about your electricity .
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