Example sentences of "say that [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiffs say that they accepted this loan on behalf of C.M.C. on the advice of the third defendant . |
| 2 | You say that you found interstellar space being pretty cold , there are some variations of temperature within it , are n't there ? |
| 3 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand if I say that I had some difficulty in persuading everybody to come round a table when I was talking only to the parties in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | Yeah , but you say that I paid thirty pounds for the Astra , now let's get it in the balance here , you see what I mean , and that sen and then |
| 5 | She says that they lived some miles from London , but they could see the red glow in the sky and smell the smoke . ’ |
| 6 | Matthew Paris says that he convicted innumerable monks and laymen , nobles and commoners , on a multitude of indictments for breaches of the Forest law , and , in order to enrich the king , imposed such heavy penalties on the offenders that many were flung into prison , many were despoiled of all their goods and were forced to eke out a bare existence in misery , and many others became exiles and wandering beggars . |
| 7 | Even as a child , Russell describes himself as having found this intellectual , religious background as intolerable , and he says that he spent endless hours meditating on the supposed rational grounds for Christianity . |
| 8 | He says that he expected more mud slinging ; Dowty has been very gentlemanly so far . |
| 9 | ‘ He says that he had some grub here , around half-past four on Wednesday morning . |
| 10 | He says that he suffered terrible injuries . |
| 11 | He says that he hit both men , one ran off , he sat on the other . |
| 12 | Ralph Stanley , a former head of the Urban Mass Transportation agency in Washington , DC , who now works for Bechtel , says that he approached 44 firms on Wall Street in 1989–90 before finding the right combination of people to put together a private toll-road project . |
| 13 | Trodd says that he supported that decision at the time . |
| 14 | In another age and another society it might have been said that they loved each other . |
| 15 | You 've just said that you took one look at Lotta and wanted her without knowing a thing about her , and now you 're telling me exactly the same thing . |
| 16 | Indeed , it is said that he composed one aria while waiting for the rice to cook . |
| 17 | In fairness to de Valera , it must be said that he opposed any attempt to incorporate the church into the apparatus of the state and in this was , as already noted , going against the form of relationship preferred by the Popes of the day . |
| 18 | He had said that he regarded all-round cancellation as the only fair solution to inter-Allied debts , and this remained his basic position throughout . |
| 19 | We elected Peter as Chairman and he began by saying that we needed national appeals to raise money in all the richest countries . |
| 20 | And I mind her saying that they had nine men once from North Ronaldsay . |
| 21 | I was invited to join in but always found excuses not to do so , saying that I had early afternoon lessons . |
| 22 | I sent mine back to John Le Masurier , a former National Coach and now in charge of the Team Secretariat , saying that I needed more competition . |
| 23 | When we arrived she greeted us kindly , her first honeymoon couple , showed us round the cottage , then excused herself , saying that she had 600 lettuces to plant out before tea . |
| 24 | He turned down a job in a famous public school and wrote to Aunt Lilian , a long , very high-flown letter , saying that he believed social segregation in education to be totally wrong and that he could have no part in perpetuating it . |
| 25 | Eliot weighed in by saying that he had great hopes of a young man — ‘ rather a spotty youth ’ — called Rayner Heppenstall . |
| 26 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 27 | In the population census for 1991 nearly one in seven of Bassetlaw 's residents said that they had long term illnesses , health problems , or handicaps that limited their daily activities or work . |
| 28 | Many teachers , whose schools had been early in the reporting cycle , also said that they had considerable difficulty in remembering their review and its outcome or had been so little involved that they felt unable to say much about it . |
| 29 | Cos someone said that they went last year , George said they went last year brilliant . |
| 30 | Melville says she would prefer it if he said that they loved each other , and that subtle point is not lost on anyone . |