Example sentences of "[vb pp] say [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've heard say that Grandad used to rise at five o'clock in the morning during summertime to water the garden , all carried by hand , of course . |
| 2 | A little earlier the mother of Dr Neil 's surgery boy , who carried out the doctor 's errands on the bicycle which lived in the outhouse , had come to say that Eddie had broken his arm and would not be fit to carry out his duties . |
| 3 | Sir David said that in the last few days , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , has written to say that NHS funds can not be used in this way . |
| 4 | The next morning the Swiss detective agency called to say that Dimitri Volkov and his companion had crossed over to France . |
| 5 | ( 92 ) * He was n't heard to say that Bill was looking for trouble . |
| 6 | But feminists may be well aware that , in calling God Father , it is not intended to say that God literally has sexuality , while yet wanting to maintain that this is problematic . |
| 7 | Dosh and Freddie did n't take much persuading but Chase thankfully declined saying that parties did n't like him . |
| 8 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 9 | One is tempted to say that consent is valid if one has a right that the normative consequences will not occur without one 's consent . |
| 10 | Nonetheless , manufacturers are still not pushing the business benefits of technology to any great extent — some 80% of those questioned said that bidding vendors had never formally evaluated what they should invest in from a strategic point of view . |
| 11 | It is no disparagement of the successes which have been achieved to say that cancer remains , largely , unconquered . |