Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | reply or reply saying that it 's |
| 2 | One senior representative of an existing cash & carry said that MAKRO will ‘ obviously pose a threat ’ , not only to that trade but also to supermarkets , which will be hit by trade being diverted into the MARKO ‘ discounting ’ — through holding one of the membership passports . |
| 3 | And they , it basically says , there 's erm , replenish , or rotate stock , and they sort of tick or sign to say that they 've done it . |
| 4 | although having said that I 'll know that if I do well its mine , its in my own , own work , which I think is probably better because when it comes to it you do n't get any help on the day do ya ? |
| 5 | You see I were born in nineteen hundred so that means to say that when it 's nineteen ninety eight I 'll be ninety eight , I think they did that so I could er reckon me age up more easily . |
| 6 | erm I mean , it 's interesting , that 's not the only person that 's said that to me erm one of the youngsters actually said that to me last night erm sort of complaining again along the same sort of lines , and I said ‘ well hang on a minute , you know there are people actually at this moment who are putting their lives on the line and |
| 7 | I note that the Labour party knows better than the Milk Marketing Board and has said that it would not help the Milk Marketing Board to get the reform that is necessary for British farmers and British consumers . |
| 8 | However , the Audit Commission has challenged that figure , and has said that it would be nearer 50 per cent . |
| 9 | Paisley had to be in Ulster that day , but Kevin McNamara , MP for Kingston-upon-Hull , realised that the Black issue was being avoided and intervened to say that MPs were concerned about the serious allegations which had been made . |
| 10 | He was last in England in 1972 , and used to say that his homeland was going to hell because of all the immigration . |
| 11 | He remained a student throughout his life , gave stipends to foreign scholars such as Grotius and Casaubon , and used to say that anyone who disturbed him before noon was no true scholar . |
| 12 | He did n't like the country and used to say that the birds kept him awake . |
| 13 | The captain left the pitch to telephone Tripoli , and returned saying that he would call new elections on Saturday . |
| 14 | He is now upset that it is not our policy and keeps saying that the views in it must be the views of Ministers . |
| 15 | Ratagan told me , and Bicker says that the Isle of Mists is an empty place , full of mountains and deserted coasts . |
| 16 | He appeared to consider her proposals trifling and moreover he had ignored Whitbread 's own orders , and had said that prostitutes should be isolated from other patients . |
| 17 | Chris explained with rapidly diminishing patience that some of the Argentinian officers had received their training at Sandhurst ; his brother had served in the Scots Guards on Mount Tumbledown and had said that the Argentinians they had confronted there had been good , professional soldiers . |
| 18 | ( b ) That later on the same night , after Zaidie had reached home , the defendant had driven there with another man and confronted him with a gun and had said that he had come to move out Paulette. ( c ) That after that incident , but still in June 1986 , when Zaidie was driving into a friend 's house , the defendant drove up and , saying that he had heard that Zaidie had hit Paulette , again threatened to kill him if he touched her . |
| 19 | On July 8 she had announced a stepping-up of the deportations of illegal immigrants , and had said that the state would charter special aircraft for the task . |
| 20 | These girls had actually been requested to have a conversation in " Jamaican " , and had said that they would do so . |
| 21 | But , since Cara was supposed to be with her in Czechoslovakia and had said that she 'd be doing her a favour if she did n't ring them , Fabia settled for the next best thing . |
| 22 | Rykodisc are currently reissuing the QUEEN back-catalogue in the States and have said that their CDs will include special remixes of certain Queen classics , masterminded by Rick Rubin and Michael Wagner among others . |
| 23 | British immigration officials have extended Natasha 's visa until February 1993 and have said that it will be renewed automatically for a certain period of time after that . |
| 24 | The Oxford Archaeological Unit has stated the site to be of limited interest and have said that a full excavation would suffice to investigate it . |
| 25 | I have just read the letter in the September issue of Todays Horse and have to say that I agree with the comments of Lisa Robillard on the point of using ‘ he ’ instead of ‘ she ’ . |
| 26 | I do not remember hearing the Cecilian Ode in this form before , and have to say that some of its sparkle goes with , first , the filling out of the music 's original crystal-clear textures , and second , the breaking of the marvellous marriage between Dryden 's words and Handel 's poetic setting ( for the work is , of course , done here in ‘ authentic ’ German ) . |
| 27 | I can find no significant problems with it , and have to say that , after you 've looked at Excel 4 , other spreadsheets begin to look quite primitive . |
| 28 | Suppose the reformer stops saying that a good woman may be like God and begins saying that God is like a good woman . |
| 29 | John 's already stolen my thunder on the straw poll erm that I was going to do but suffice to say that we normally do that at these types of seminars and there 's always a few people in the room who put their hands up and say they 've got more than ten data sources in their organization . |
| 30 | You can do this through a Licensed Conveyancer , or even do it yourself , but having said that solicitors nowadays ( at least , the ones we use ) tend to give pretty good value for money . |