Example sentences of "say [conj] [noun] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customs sources say that raves held just over the border are attracting hundreds of teenagers from all over Ulster — and drug dealers . |
| 2 | When I say that Dolores had never heard the term gig before joining the band I am not taking the piss or ridiculing her . |
| 3 | Chemists , grocers , clothing , footwear and leather shops say that sales improved significantly compared with a year ago . |
| 4 | Critics then and now say that Nonconformity did not create a new architecture after they had given up the old seventeenth and eighteenth-century meeting house . |
| 5 | Or she could , if she thought of it in time , say that Derek had always been the most frightful liar . |
| 6 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 7 | He says that Speywood did not carry through the business plan presented to get the money . |
| 8 | She says that Helen explained how to drink water through a tube . |
| 9 | He says that Russell did not work out his position in detail and had ceased to hold the position at all . |
| 10 | He announced this in English , an explanation of something he had said that Ward had not understood . |
| 11 | But then should I also have said that Oliver rang up the next day and asked if I 'd liked them ? |
| 12 | Manager Frank Gray perhaps had a point after the game when he said that luck did n't smile kindly on his side , but it must also be said that Quakers did not utilise the strong wind in the same forthright manner as the home side in the first half . |
| 13 | It was said that birds had not been seen nesting or singing in the area of Belsen since the war . |
| 14 | In [ 17 ] the author writes that he had been saying that Gardner looked very square : But of course Carver had not actually said that Gardner looked very square , at least not in the Gricean ( Grice 1981 ) sense of the word . |
| 15 | For some reason , perhaps because an official collection had already been issued , the work was coolly received in Bologna and it was little " glossed " or commented on by canonists , and it was said that Innocent had again refused his official imprimatur . |
| 16 | Let us suppose that an acquaintance has said that Smith acted wrongly in telling a fairly minor lie in order to promote his career , and suppose that a little later he himself tells a fairly minor lie in order to promote his career . |
| 17 | Although I have said that Eliot had not greatly physically changed , he felt the deprivations of the war as acutely as anyone else . |
| 18 | The original product was WordStar Legacy , a licensing deal with NBI , and it has to be said that Legacy did not receive unanimous acclaim . |
| 19 | ‘ But my dear girl , you do n't know these other pupils , ’ she had said when Eve had politely requested that she should not be put in a public position of a non-fee-paying student . |
| 20 | IBM Corp is expected to announce today that it is switching to what it calls value-based pricing for mainframe software , charging on either a per-user or elapsed time used basis ; the company issued a cryptic statement in response to the Financial Times story alleging that Louis Gerstner had put the break-up of IBM on hold , saying that Gerstner had not said such a thing for public consumption and that he had no plans to do so . |
| 21 | If we start off by accepting these categories , then we start off by saying that Jesus did not rise from the dead , in the ordinary sense of those words . |
| 22 | According to Xinhua Shultz quoted Chinese leaders as saying that missiles had only been sold to Saudi Arabia , despite reports of sales to Iran [ see pp. 35160 ; 35966 ; 36671 ] , Libya and Syria [ see p. 36180 ] . |
| 23 | The commentators seemed to be saying that Deane did n't seem able to lift his feet to jump for a ball , again any comments ? |
| 24 | You may have already saying that Mrs attended recently . |
| 25 | The Chinese side had ordered that construction be halted until the project received China 's approval , saying that China had not been consulted on the matter , and expressing concern that it would place a financial burden on the new government after 1997 . |
| 26 | Rather than saying that £100 invested today at an annual rate of 10 per cent will yield £110 in 12 months ' time , we say that £1 10 due in 12 months ' time has a present value of £100 today . |
| 27 | However , reports of a more conciliatory stance appeared to be a confirmed after the Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz was quoted in the official daily al Thawrah on Oct. 5 as saying that Iraq had not " objected to the idea of selling oil to meet the necessary humanitarian and civilian needs and has not objected to the Security Council 's resolution to deduct a high percentage " of " the so-called reparations fund and UN costs " . |
| 28 | A report in the New York Times in late March 1990 quoted US intelligence sources as saying that Iraq had recently completed the construction of six launchers for its al-Husayen missiles at the H-2 air base in western Iraq near the Jordanian border . |
| 29 | Dosh and Freddie did n't take much persuading but Chase thankfully declined saying that parties did n't like him . |
| 30 | Associated Press news agency quoted Meciar as saying that agreement had also been reached on the division of Czechoslovakia 's export quotas to the European Community ( EC ) countries . |