Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or do they say that , because the police behaved badly , the confession is , as a result , unreliable or unfair and it should not therefore be entered in evidence ? |
| 2 | Does he say of someone who does not have this character that he is ‘ not loyal ’ , in order to express lack of approval of him , or does he say that he is loyal , but seek to negate the usual valuational meaning of the word , by inserting some adverb like ‘ deplorably ’ before it ? |
| 3 | Now take a and say , what is it that allows me to say that the individual X in this s erm cell of the film is the same individual X as in this cell of the film . |
| 4 | Nor did he say that he thought it was unlikely , on the whole , that the Bishop would sack a perfectly competent administrator who happened not to be smarmy enough to some thruster from the Scottish lowlands . |
| 5 | The Second Symphony is a work that wears well and suffice it to say that this newcomer can hold its head high in this company . |
| 6 | We had Trimalchio 's feast to go on , described by Nero 's mate Petronius , so we had an idea of what they ate , and let me say that it was as much of a surprise to find they had sausages and black pudding as it was to find out they had concrete . |
| 7 | And let us say that the meaning of a statement is valuational if and only if there is a certain attitude to which it is related just as a cognitive statement is related to a certain belief . |
| 8 | Suppose for instance you see some visibly sighted person make a phone call in broad daylight , and hear them say that it 's pitch dark . |
| 9 | Too many groups of people , with mutually exclusive agendas , want him to be their very own president and remember him saying that he would be . |
| 10 | But erm , sometimes they have n't covered it completely , or do n't understand it , they 've just ticked it , and signed it to say that they know what they 're doing . |
| 11 | The treatments that were thus superseded have been touched upon in Chapter 2 , but suffice it to say that there was general and unqualified relief from both doctors and patients that they had passed . |
| 12 | If we printed details of the case it would make her identity too plain to the authorities but suffice it to say that she was detained with some others for celebrating a ‘ banned person ’ — Nelson Mandela . |
| 13 | I wish that I had time to go more deeply into the Government 's failure to tackle the root causes of crime in our communities , but suffice it to say that neither unemployment nor lack of a decent home is an excuse for crime . |
| 14 | I wo n't go into all the grim details , but suffice it to say that when he laughed too much at one of his own jokes with his mouth full and a Chinese mushroom shot out of his nose … |
| 15 | ‘ I can not give any indication on which companies we are meeting but suffice it to say that one is trade and the other two venture . |
| 16 | Well yes , but let me say that I gave up going to auditions well before I became well known through The History Man , on television . |
| 17 | But let me say that in saying that I 'm a boilermaker , I have always been , I am now , and I will always be proud to say that I 'm a boilermaker . |
| 18 | Perhaps I should start by telling you something I 'll not be talking about and that is the subject of financial resources and how Lynda 's getting on in her discussions with chief secretary , I do n't suppose that comes to you as any surprise but I shall I not be talking on that but let me say that we remain committed strongly to a substantial aid programme which as far as possible is directed towards the poorest countries . |
| 19 | But let me say that I think it 's not in principle difficult . |
| 20 | But let us say that this is not the case and you are off on your own . |
| 21 | But did she say that he was worse than that ? |
| 22 | When asked she said that she would like her mother to stay with her and would prefer the nurse to obtain any necessary information from her mother . |