Example sentences of "[pers pn] say that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I will convey a better idea of the tone of those evenings if I say that regular visitors included the likes of Mr Harry Graham , valet-butler to Sir James Chambers , and Mr John Donalds , valet to Mr Sydney Dickenson . |
| 2 | I said that asymmetric arms races were more likely to lead to interesting progressive improvements than symmetric ones , and we can now see why this is , using human weapons to illustrate the point . |
| 3 | I said that literary work often left me with a depressed feeling . |
| 4 | COUNSEL : Now if you will refer to page 61 of your excellent report , you will see that you say that considerable forces were deployed . |
| 5 | ‘ If you say that capital punishment is a deterrent , how do you explain that 87 per cent of all murderers convicted over the last 10 years thought there still was capital punishment ? ’ |
| 6 | She says that flat paintings hung on walls are outmoded . |
| 7 | Excuse me are you saying that Young Guns is not suitable for people under eighteen ? |
| 8 | She said that existing vicars would keep their right to stay in their parish until they were 65 but as soon as a parish became vacant the priest-in-charge system would be introduced . |
| 9 | She said that sensible people were n't led astray by infatuation . |
| 10 | She said that large cuts were made in regional selective assistance in the early 1980s . |
| 11 | In certain situations we said that written-down cost could be used as an alternative . |
| 12 | We said that non-standard forms are rarely more than a social irritant to some people , and that there are few situations where such forms could cause real communication problems . |
| 13 | We said that secondary school pupils might themselves begin to discuss explicitly the different meanings of ‘ grammar ’ , and become conversant with the controversies aroused by this word . |
| 14 | They say that financial institutions ' troubled assets , such as loans for property and highly-geared companies , will take years to sort out . |
| 15 | They say that gentile women who marry Jewish men become more Jewish than Jews . |
| 16 | They say that strong fashion stories will boost clothing but broader improvement and decisive out-performance in stores is hinged on government policy on the housing market . |
| 17 | The Wards are most helpful ( they say that running Culver Lodge has restored their faith in human nature as their guests have always been such a pleasure ) and are always ready to give advice on places to visit , walks , bus and rail timetables . |
| 18 | They say that Blind Willie Johnson also learned slide from somebody else , someone who was too early on the scene to be recorded , and God knows who he learned it from , because nobody back then thought to ask those kind of questions . |
| 19 | They say that Direct Line 's 1992 profits of £15 million could grow to as much as £100 million by 1996 when the company becomes one of the biggest players in insurance industry . |
| 20 | They say that fair elections in Punjab and Assam are impossible — and so the outcome will be decided by bullets , not ballots . |
| 21 | They say that social workers who attend seminars and lectures on the subject do not realise that these ideas are being promoted by Christian Fundamentalist extremists who believe that all abuse is demonic in origin . |
| 22 | They said that Private Eye and the Sunday papers knocked you out . |
| 23 | ‘ When the Government was persuading Parliament to accept the right to buy scheme , they said that local authorities would be able to use accumulated funds from selling their houses to build more . |
| 24 | He says that certain morphine like substances are released from the brain during acupuncture . |
| 25 | He says that violent death is so common that people tend to be fatalistic and unprepared to take precautions . |
| 26 | He says that bored youngsters turn to crime — joy riding cars etc . |
| 27 | He says that Saudi culture is different from ours . |
| 28 | Now he says that arresting drug barons is a waste of time , since their cousins , godsons or even more horrible rivals will at once fill the vacancy . |
| 29 | He says that automatic alarms that warn of radioactivity on clothes have been ‘ arbitrarily ’ adjusted so that the alarms do not go off too often . |
| 30 | He says that recent bombings mean that the police must put public safety first . |