Example sentences of "say [conj] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that at the moment of death the whole of one 's past life flashes before one 's eyes . |
| 2 | If the right hon. Gentleman had paid more attention to the CBI yesterday , he would have heard the director general say that since the crash of October 1987 , real take-home pay is up by 11 per cent. , manufacturing productivity is up by 20 per cent . |
| 3 | They say that without the introduction of a full-scale growth incentive public confidence will remain at rock bottom with no increase in spending . |
| 4 | But patients say that in the course of treatment , they are never permitted to express tearfulness or despair . |
| 5 | I think that the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean when I say that in the context of coming towards the end of a particular available time , whether it is the time for talks or the time for a general election , there is reluctance among certain parties — and I make this remark generally — to turn their cards face upwards if there is any danger that other people will not have turned their cards face upwards by the time the whistle blows . |
| 6 | But his family say that in the weeks before his death , Richard had appeared worried . |
| 7 | Flaubert 's niece Caroline says that towards the end of his life he regretted not having had a wife and family . |
| 8 | He says that below the Forest of Dean lies one of Britains largest natural reservoirs . |
| 9 | Reuter says that with the help of General Media International Inc , the Penthouse magazine empire has just launched a dial-up service in the US where for a monthly fee plus usage , lechers can view their favourite Pets from their personal computer , ask them to perform various acts — and play photographer , taking shots with the mouse while the model performs … |
| 10 | He says that at the beginning of the relationship he wrestled with himself , knowing that he should back off from Mandy . |
| 11 | Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise . |
| 12 | He says that at the end of the Laws of Moses one finds the following words : " Moses , having heard the words of God , transmitted them to the Jews . " |
| 13 | ‘ In the gospels , Sir John , Christ says that at the end of the world the very heavens will rock and the planets fall to earth in a fiery blaze . ’ |
| 14 | Pliny the Elder , writing in the later first century AD , says that about the time of Vulso 's triumph statues of wood and terracotta ceased to be used at Rome and were replaced by luxuria from Asia Minor . |
| 15 | Benazir Bhutto says that after the summer of turmoil in Pakistan , this could be the last chance for parliamentary democracy . |
| 16 | He says that in the case of a face one has recognised , talk of ‘ separating ’ the familiarity from the impression of the face does not have any clear sense for him . |
| 17 | It says that in the light of the observation it is now reviewing the commercial . |
| 18 | The witness , John Hostiar , Bailiff of Halling , testified to the old established customs of Halling and the evidence of the witness is recorded as follows : " Being asked how many plough teams of land in the Manor of Halling , he says that in the Manor of Halling with its Pertinencies , vis . |
| 19 | The Scripture account says that in the strength of that food he was able to accomplish the journey still many days on . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , Shandell says that by the end of August the company will have versions ‘ for most versions of Unix ’ , by which he means implementations for Unix System V.4 , and Motorola Inc 's 88open standard plus versions for Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Data General Corp , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG and ICL Plc Unixes and IBM 's AIX . |
| 21 | For a week they accepted generous hospitality and it is said that on the evening before the massacre their leader played cards with McIan and his family . |
| 22 | It has been said that at the court of Poitiers " the gilded youth of Poitou and Aquitaine breathed an air that seemed to belong to some tale of chivalry " . |
| 23 | It might be said that at the time of the signing of the document he was in no position to resist both the seizure of all his goods under a distress and the forfeiture of his lease with no practical possibility of relief . |
| 24 | ‘ I do not consider that it can be said that at the moment of striking the child , he [ the father ] had the necessary evil intent or wilfulness to justify a finding either that he assaulted the child or that he wilfully ill-treated her . |
| 25 | Having said that in the case of a of a a of a through movement , I accept that we are loading at at the traffic in at the A sixty one if you like and it 's coming out at the A sixty one north . |
| 26 | It is usually said that in the voice from heaven at the baptism of Jesus we have an example of the bath qol . |
| 27 | It is sometimes said that in the light of the historical tension between Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Baghdad , things could hardly have been expected to turn out otherwise . |
| 28 | ‘ It is said that in the time of Shang they would take a tortoise shell and cover it with ink , then throw it into a fire . |
| 29 | There were complaints when Hitler 's speech to the Party ‘ old guard ’ in Munich on 8 November was not broadcast , for it was said that in the disappointment about the unfulfilled expectations from the Russian campaign many people ‘ had felt the need to hear the voice of the Führer again and to derive new strength from his words ’ . |
| 30 | It could be said that from the point of view of social research , the world only exists as data and data can exist only through the interpretations placed on materials gathered from the world . |