Example sentences of "say they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have made 'em red , you have made 'em redundant and you in , in you have and I hope you 've had nobody redundant because I 've I 'd be pleased to go out to those homes and say them come back and I would be pleased to go up to and say you 've got your figures wrong because you 're saying that nobody 's made redundant ooh well I I 'm so pleased . |
| 2 | The institutions say they intend to raise the equity weighting in their portfolios from under 10% to perhaps 15% by the mid-1990s . |
| 3 | A large majority of the 95 managers canvassed by Gallup for stockbrokers Smith New Court say they intend to increase their holdings , compared with only 15 p.c. in March . |
| 4 | At a meeting of the Finance Committee members will pr , make a progress report on how the poll tax collection is going , and campaigners say they intend to put pressure on councillors in an attempt to get them to review the collection process . |
| 5 | The beauty products may claim to stimulate , but dermatologists say they irritate . |
| 6 | The Police say they back the idea . |
| 7 | The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers say they welcome anyone from 17 to 70 ( address on page 152 ) . |
| 8 | Though these measures are not due to necessity , as the people here are glad to be of service to us and treat us with courtesy in which not a little deference is admixed , for as I say they count many simple things great wonders : my fine paste shoe buckles ( the only part remaining after some native rats that are very large and like to be tame devoured the rest of the appurtenances ) inspired much clicking of teeth and clucking of tongues till I thought I should have to part with them . |
| 9 | You sometimes hear people say that it is not worth eating differently , or getting to the right weight ; they say they prefer a short and happy life to a long and miserable one . |
| 10 | For instance , it would be wrong to reconsider the Taylor Report because some fans say they prefer to stand at football matches and there is a likelihood that less wealthy clubs will be forced out of business . |
| 11 | Although only six per cent of 18 to 19-year-old pub goers say they prefer a congenial publican , putting the availability of real ale at the top of their list , a friendly welcome becomes markedly important as drinkers get older. , |
| 12 | While there is no evidence that conventionally grown fruit and vegetables produced under approved conditions are harmful , some people feel happier to subscribe to the organic philosophy , and many people say they prefer the flavour of organic food to that of conventionally grown food . |
| 13 | Interpreting in schools , colleges , courts , meetings and so on is provided by individual arrangement usually with a social worker for the deaf , though in most personal circumstances ( job interviews etc. ) deaf people say they prefer to use a relative or friend ( Kyle and Allsop , 1982b ) . |
| 14 | I know authors say they prefer to let their work speak for them , but I hardly think it would harm the integrity of the book to know a little something about the man , such as that he is forty-two , married to American academic Antonia Phillips , with two children , Louis and Jacob , and that he has what he calls a ‘ middle-aged obsession ’ with competitive games , particularly tennis . |
| 15 | They say they gone put up solar . ’ |
| 16 | The makers of Lamisil , Sandoz Pharmaceuticals of Surrey say they tested the drug for 5 years before using it on humans . |
| 17 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 18 | Er and things like sort of er midday and a late evening er usually fine , and then you have y quite a lot of asthmatics say they wake up in the night , somewhere between two to five . |
| 19 | The light beams say the target moved forward 25 centimetres ; I say they curved through the air by 25 centimetres . |
| 20 | But you say they make all the time , if you could get him to say it |
| 21 | Officials at the John Radcliffe in Oxford , say they take great care over security . |
| 22 | ‘ As a result the majority of young girls I have interviewed say they regret how they lost their virginity and would love to turn the clock back . ’ |
| 23 | Oxfordshire Health Authority say they regret Keith Atkinson 's disabilities , but they deny any negligence by staff in 1967 . |
| 24 | Only a small proportion , however , ( 12 per cent ) of Oxfordshire teachers say they felt personally threatened to any great extent by the requirement to undertake their review . |
| 25 | The governor 's strategists say they became confident that the reform would get through when the state 's biggest business lobby , Associated Industries of Florida , agreed to support it . |
| 26 | Leaders of the Vlaams Blok say they approve of the exhibition , for Jordaens did not leave Flanders to work abroad , as did Rubens and Van Dyck . |
| 27 | For everyone they take , staff say they turn another four away . |
| 28 | The four doctors say they sent their findings to an Ontario government inquiry into the hospital deaths . |
| 29 | They say they like the sound of singing , which gives them a bit of a boost at the beginning of the day . ’ |
| 30 | Those who say they like washing up do not like the task itself — one woman likes it because she has a dishwasher , one because she has just acquired a new stainless steel sink , and the third likes it merely ‘ to get it out of the way ’ . |