Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] say that [noun pl] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 two thousand whatever , not you 're saying that parents subsidize that , you know
2 It is said that Arabs have no compunction about reneging on a deal , that they will blow hot and cold , use the phrase ‘ God willing ’ to suit their own purpose , say ‘ yes ’ when they mean ‘ no ’ and generally confuse their more direct Western counterparts .
3 It is said that Farafrans know the night sky better than most people know the rooms of their own home .
4 It is said that MPs have not had many letters about the case , in which three businessmen nearly went to jail for doing what the Government had encouraged them to do .
5 It is said that men mature as they grow older like a good red wine , but that a woman 's beauty fades with age .
6 Now I think it 's in Alice in Wonderland , that it is said that words mean what I intend them to mean .
7 After all , it is said that children grow out of crime and naturally move to independence from their families .
8 An easy way of sort of getting round it is to say that adapters do it better , and innovators do it differently .
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