Example sentences of "say [that] he [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , if you do n't measure it the right way , and go all the way round there and say that he 's coming in on two hundred and twenty five degrees |
| 2 | He says that he 's looking for birds preening or doing something which makes a good composition . |
| 3 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 4 | But in which he says that he 's talking about himself ‘ That so many good and learned men among the neighbouring nations who read my works may not be induced by this fellow 's calumnies to alter the favourable opinion they have formed of me , followed by the assertion that the people of England whom fate , or duty , or their own virtues have incited me to defend may be convinced from the purity and integrity of my life that my defence , if it do not redown to their honour , can never be considered as their disgrace . ’ |
| 5 | Managing director David Crisp says that he is talking to three potential manufacturers at the moment , one of which is presumably Amstrad . |
| 6 | Admittedly , he says that he is describing ethical discussion as it is , rather than as it ought to be . |
| 7 | Mr. Browne says that he is standing as constituency candidate , free to speak and act for the area and with the strength to resist party orders that are against the interests of grass roots people . |
| 8 | Later Scandinavian sources suggest a date of 1027 for the battle of Holy River , but this is rendered implausible by chapter 13 of the Letter sent by Cnut to England in that year , which mentions people who had tried to deprive him of his kingdom and his life , but whose power had been destroyed by God , and says that he is returning from Rome to Denmark to make peace with them . |
| 9 | He says that he was operating when a bullet wizzed in through the window and hit the surgeon next to him . |
| 10 | She says that he was hanging by his dressing gown cord from a banister . |
| 11 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 12 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |
| 13 | Monsieur Mitterand has already said that he 's going to seek to drive a harder bargain with Britain over fishing limits even than President Giscard was trying to do , and I think our negotiators must expect a rather tough time as far as fisheries are concerned . |
| 14 | May we take it from what he has said that he is saying definitely that he would be prepared at Maastricht to make an irrevocable commitment to a single currency ? |
| 15 | Yes , er I 'm very worried about this aspect of er whose finger er on the nuclear trigger , because the nuclear referee in the Soviet Union is divided between mainly peace states , Russia , Ukraine and , now Boris Yeltsin has said that he is going to protect his Russian minorities in Ukraine and , now I fear that if that comes to some kind of a conflict then it 'll be very uncertain as to what arrangement could be made about er , honouring international agreement and about ultimately too er , any kind of nuclear er congregation . |
| 16 | Asked about apparent defections from his cause , he claimed never to have said that he was counting on anybody . |
| 17 | Had he said that he was going to his death in Lucifer 's inferno ? |
| 18 | It is said that he was interfering with the choir girls , some of whom were betrothed . |
| 19 | We can restate Saussure 's argument by saying that he is taking colour terminology as paradigmatic for all language ; just as colour terms impose arbitrary divisions on the continuous spectrum of light waves , so all other words impose arbitrary divisions on the ‘ indefinite plane of jumbled ideas ’ which , without language , would constitute our mental experience . |
| 20 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 21 | Arens was quoted in an interview in the newspaper Hadashot as saying that he was resigning because Shamir had offered David Levi , the Foreign Affairs Minister , the party 's deputy leadership [ see pp. 38835 ; 38885 ] , despite an understanding that he , Arens , was the heir . |
| 22 | But he was n't saying that he was getting eighteen thousand a year from Ffestiniog slate alone as a director 's bonus and he 's a director of the other quarries as well . |
| 23 | When his book Early Conversation Pictures appeared , Evelyn took what Henry James would have called ‘ the rash and insensate step ’ of saying that he was enjoying it . |
| 24 | Surely the Friend would be justified in rejecting the case by saying that he was living in the present and that whatever happened in the future , whether he married and had a son or not , would be of doubtful relevance to his own mind or body now . |
| 25 | He ran from the house saying that he was going to commit suicide . |
| 26 | When Henry II again refused , he stormed off to France , saying that he was going to go to Jerusalem . |
| 27 | I returned to London and the Prime Minister made clear what I had always known , that , had he not been stricken down , he would have made a speech on the Saturday at Blackpool saying that he was going on . |
| 28 | Did you hear Christopher saying that he was going to be getting erm a new Cavalier ? |
| 29 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 30 | A couple of years ago he wrote to several of our authors saying that he was dying , their work meant a lot to him , could they write something for him . |