Example sentences of "saying [that] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was just saying that this year it would be hopefully everybody will go through it . |
| 2 | It 's because you ca n't just sit down and di if you do n't know how to spell , I ca n't spell anyway , d' you know when I did it , the student actually wrote a letter to me and to th or to the exam board car saying that this hand-writing is appalling and the spelling , it 's due to the person who was doing the amanuensing , rather th but I was marking it anyway so it did n't really matter , but they were so distressed at the handwriting that I produced . |
| 3 | Yeah , I mean that seems a plausible way of getting into the , er the job market , er what would Harrison Todaro erm say , you know , because they were saying that this migration , this migration was perfectly rational , despite there being high levels of unemployment . |
| 4 | I was therefore surprised when I heard the hospital on the radio today saying that this case was a very isolated incident . ’ |
| 5 | It is worth saying that this Bill has nothing to do with privatisation or the Rothschild report ; it will give the tools to British Coal so that it can compete successfully for the coal contract post-April 1993 . |
| 6 | Judge Schucking referred to Article 20 of the Covenant of the League of Nations , which also prohibits conflicting treaties , saying that this provision ‘ would possess little value ’ unless inconsistent treaties were automatically null . |
| 7 | Shelley gazed as he sang , wondering if Dr Rafaelo had been right in saying that this act was only showmanship , with no genuine feeling or emotion in it . |
| 8 | He rejects parliamentarianism and hates the nation-state , saying that this system merely takes into account people 's interests but not their needs . |
| 9 | ‘ Ten , ’ said Ivy , in the tone of an editor saying that this correspondence was now closed . |
| 10 | We should be safe in saying that this building-over of ancient market places was the result of the great expansion of trade and population in the boom of the thirteenth century . |
| 11 | He drew back , however , from an earlier announcement that there would be an easing of the law to allow 16-year-olds to buy condoms , saying that this idea ( for which he had been fiercely criticized in the week before the conference by Roman Catholic bishops ) was only a proposal to be examined . |
| 12 | It goes without saying that this designation is solely a function of the propensity of such locales to attract the very ugliest examples of Homo erectus . |
| 13 | I 'm talking about saving human life governments over the last twenty years , troops over the last twenty years , policemen over the last twenty years , laws over the last twenty years , and politicians , including myself , have all failed in all the efforts that we 've made including condemnation of violence , everything , but I am now saying that this dialogue is the best hope I 've seen or , surely I 'm entitled to say to the Prime Minister , alright given that I have said that why do n't you put me to the test ? |
| 14 | It goes without saying that this charge is baseless and that the boy in question was selected entirely on his very considerable merit . |
| 15 | Are you saying that this combination of vocal and physical training stems from the demands of the classical play , like Richard III , or do you think a different approach is needed for the modern writer ? |
| 16 | Well no we 're not saying any such thing , we 're saying that this format is not very helpful and that Wendy is learning , is going to learn format that is better . |
| 17 | Each has the same environment as do the atoms or molecules in a crystal ( that is what I meant by saying that this sort of structure represents simple ordering ) , and each is attached to its neighbours in exactly the same way . |
| 18 | We are saying that this applicant does not do that |
| 19 | Oh , that too erm that we are , had , if we are saying that this evening we are looking at communications and different elements of it , I think this is an area which if ever there was an example of how perhaps not to do it how to blow it askew , it 's probably the best one we 've had in , in decades . |
| 20 | I think I 'm right in saying that this week the government announced that an extra one point six million pounds was being made available for yourselves and the English Tourist Board to , in an sense , overcome some of the projects , some of the problems that you 've been facing . |