Example sentences of "say that they [verb] [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 | Then they can actually go to the D S S office and say that they need some money urgently and D S S may make a payment . |
| 3 | The equally helpful Bass Centre ( 071 265 1567 ) say that they carry suitable spares and can organise remedies for such ailments , too , so nil desperandum , Warwickists … |
| 4 | They say that they want real convergence and decisions in the treaty for which no one else in the Community has argued at any stage . |
| 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 | He says that they teach young people how to work as a team . |
| 7 | He says that they have little information to go on , so the search has to be very wide . |
| 8 | He says that they need skilled staff — there are n't enough being trained . |
| 9 | Though participants have said that they find these quizzes enjoyable , they have not been well supported by comparison with the more usual lectures and no further quiz is planned for the moment , though I shall try to keep a few questions in hand in case a speaker is delayed or fails to arrive for some reason . |
| 10 | In another age and another society it might have been said that they loved each other . |
| 11 | It is said that they place great strains on family life , and people feel they would be unable to cope with a mentally handicapped child . |
| 12 | Sainsbury , for example , defend the sky-high price of their organic vegetables by saying that they take less percentage profit on them , and that the wholesalers seem to be the ones jacking up the price . |
| 13 | And I mind her saying that they had nine men once from North Ronaldsay . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Cos someone said that they went last year , George said they went last year brilliant . |
| 18 | Melville says she would prefer it if he said that they loved each other , and that subtle point is not lost on anyone . |
| 19 | You may remember a few months before Christmas , I think , that the five District Councils in Oxford County joined together to say that they felt that Government housing policy was failing to deal with the growing housing crisis in Oxfordshire . |
| 20 | This indicated that Inner London and County libraries were most likely to regard themselves as offering formal induction training , County libraries were more likely to say that they offered formal training of most types , and that Outer London and Metropolitan libraries made most distinction between training offered to professional and non-professional staff , Scottish , Welsh and Northern Ireland libraries , least . |
| 21 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 22 | The appearance which sense-spectra present can be compared with a so-called ‘ dialect continuum ’ : speakers from village A can communicate with those from village B , who are able to converse with speakers from C ; these , in turn , can communicate with speakers from village D. However , speakers from A can not hold a conversation with speakers from D , and without the evidence of the intervening stages , one would be tempted to say that they spoke different languages . |
| 23 | Fleshy fruits of the type birds eat are often thought of as primitive in many features , that is to say that they share more characters with ancestral flowering plant fruits than do fruits with wind-dispersed seeds . |
| 24 | To say that they have priority is not to say that they have absolute hegemony over all other accounts at all other times , but rather that as a practical technique they are the accounts from which one 's initial hypotheses as to what is happening must be taken . |
| 25 | We should be trying to enhance cooperative arrangements of referral and support between health and social work departments and private homes , and Mike O'Reilly did n't actually say that they had that problem but he said that their clients had been referred by GPs or by the psychogeriatric service . |
| 26 | They do not therefore say that they need fewer teachers . |