Example sentences of "say they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | While most middle-class women say they dislike housework and most working-class women say they like or do n't mind it , there are some in each class group who deviate from this pattern . |
| 32 | Music is a means of catharsis for them and they say they like to do things in extreme . |
| 33 | They just say they like it . |
| 34 | Thames Valley Police say they remain concerned about the outstanding firearms and their investigation , involving police forces around the country , continues . |
| 35 | Thames Valley Police say they remain concerned about the outstanding firearms and their investigation , involving police forces around the country , continues . |
| 36 | The last Hercules crash was more than 20 years ago and the base say they remain confident in the safety of the transporter plane . |
| 37 | The Nix 's say they thought long and hard before fostering Kenan . |
| 38 | The Nix 's say they thought long and hard before fostering Kenan . |
| 39 | A BOY of 17 and two men in their twenties face execution in Burma for planting a bomb , but others involved in the crime say they took no part in it . |
| 40 | But surprising the people that you do n't realise , you know , it troubles the parents and as I say they took them to a number of specialists and given different things |
| 41 | mind you might , might of taken some because say they took some in Valentine down there |
| 42 | Many UN members from ‘ Third World ’ nations , now say they saw January 15 as a diplomatic rather than military deadline . |
| 43 | In the event , the operation went smoothly , but factory staff say they saw a new uncertain side to Bernard during those tense , waiting days . |
| 44 | We 've had tons of letters — you know the sort of thing : people who say they knew the originals of the characters in Cotton Town , people who say he said ‘ bobbin-waggler ’ when he should have said ‘ throcket-shuttle ’ . |
| 45 | Most Chief Education Officers say they come across fewer than one case a year , thus supporting the official line that it ‘ hardly ever happens ’ . |
| 46 | What do they mean when they say they come from The Forest Of Dean ? |
| 47 | They say they come from Earth , and that they were transported here by some means they can not understand . ’ |
| 48 | Erm people say they come round they come round with their children |
| 49 | They say they come across thousands of examples of potentially lethal appliances . |
| 50 | See dockers are only protected , when they say they go on strike , they 're only protecting their own jobs in my opinion . |
| 51 | They say they go out of their way to avoid trouble , having left a bar in Haymarket earlier in the evening because there was a group that seemed intent on a fight , swearing and pushing their way through to the bar . |
| 52 | Which a lot of people would , say they go and sit down there and they say blah blah blah sign here and |
| 53 | And people say they noticed how tightly O was holding Boy , pulling him closer and closer to him , as if he was clutching at him ; and how he smelt Boy too , taking in big draughts of the air around him , as if he was a man just escaped from drowning holding onto something and pulling the sweet night air down into his lungs in great grateful gulps . |
| 54 | Neighbours and people who drank there say they noticed he was missing and told the council . |
| 55 | Organisers say they complied with the conditions of their licence , but the district council says there have been breaches of the conditions . |
| 56 | at eight weeks , say they stop it by erm |
| 57 | The Chirwas say they came to see a sick relative . |
| 58 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |
| 59 | The owners say they came up with the idea first . |
| 60 | You must know the Japanese are making warlike noises at the USA , and Dutch Intelligence say they mean them . ’ |