Example sentences of "say that [pron] can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " There are those who say that we can turn away from the world , that we have no special role , no special place . |
| 2 | John has some mysterious tales to tell about the castle : ‘ Visitors often say that they can smell newly-baked bread in the drawing room in the eastern tower . |
| 3 | But music types in Manhattan and Hollywood say that they can see a country act as plain as a barn door . |
| 4 | One minute they say you ca n't eat , and then they say that you can eat it ! |
| 5 | They say that you can make cells reproduce faster if you injure the skin , if you inflame it , slap it , sunburn it or even rub it . |
| 6 | When I say that you can expect evolution to jump from the insect to one of its immediate neighbours , but not to jump from the insect directly to the fox or the scorpion , what I exactly mean is the following . |
| 7 | and that was for that , then I had a letter back to say that we were having , there was too much money coming in a week for me to draw unemployment and then they , then a few days later I had this double page letter a big one that says you are entitled to no prescription help , X amount of pounds after erm eighty pounds per glasses you are responsible for the first eighty pound , we say that you can afford to pay that , so much on your teeth , if you 're visiting somebody in prison then you exceed a certain amount of mileage you can only get it if you exceed more than twenty five pound incurring , then I thought oh blow it , forget it , and I never done it , that all come to then , that 's why I wanted a ten of your wage , wage slips you remember now ? |
| 8 | While many hoteliers get upset because successive governments appear to ignore the industry 's needs and say that it can look after itself , he regards that as a compliment . |
| 9 | People say that I can handle myself , but they have no idea what some of us went through . |
| 10 | Well it would be something , it would be a bit of paper that say that I can look after children under five , I could go and run a play group or do whatever and earn some money |
| 11 | When I say that I can see , I mean that I can identify the three-dimensional shapes of objects , and their relative positions : thus , I can see that there is a chair standing in front of a table with a pile of books on it . |
| 12 | No , they wo n't be moving away faster than light is travelling because the theory of relativity says that nothing can move faster than light , but there are certainly things which may be happening now which we shall not learn about for thousands of millions of years because they are so far away . |
| 13 | He says that they can make full use of the science labs and workshops . |
| 14 | The Yasa says that we can enslave only those we conquer in battle . |
| 15 | He says that none can get close enough to examine it properly becasue it tried to bite them . |
| 16 | The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery . |
| 17 | The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery . |
| 18 | The University also says that it can supply state-of-the art fibre to other universities and industry across the world in accordance with specific designs , if required . |
| 19 | Housebound and often in severe pain , Mr McTear says that it can take him 30 minutes to recover his breath from the simple act of walking downstairs in the morning . |
| 20 | The Race Relations Act says that you can do this you can have courses especially for black or Asian people so as I said you have to be unemployed you have to be black or Asian and you have to live in either Radford Hyson Green St Annes Lenton or Snainton . |
| 21 | Tony always says that you can tell a happy motorcyclist by the flies on his teeth . |
| 22 | This was as shown ; although June says that you can work with other combinations of stitches . |
| 23 | I have a Rule of Life ( No. 74 , actually ) which says that you can work your way out of most situations if you can give yourself enough thinking time . |
| 24 | Jason says that you can take any group down the course and give them a thrill you do n't have to be good and special needs groups such as blind people can also have a go … |
| 25 | ‘ You know , Charlie my boy , from the way you says that I can tell what you really want is the dirt . |
| 26 | That 's what I said I , if I 'm down like Sunday he says that I can play . |
| 27 | My PC manual says that I can add more memory in 2Mb modules . |
| 28 | ‘ Miss Hatherby says that she can write to the principal of her college when I 'm in the sixth form and see if they can give me a place , ’ Constance said casually when they were sitting on the lawn one afternoon . |
| 29 | He says that he can see understand their point of view . |
| 30 | Mark says that anyone can travel if they really want to . |