Example sentences of "you [be] say [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ You are saying that all those people in my constituency ‘ We do n't want you . |
| 2 | You are saying that the answer is to do that which is inherently contradictory , to make the silent majority speak , to make the average the exception and so on . |
| 3 | ‘ You are saying that if it were possible to remove a fertilized egg cell from a woman after she had conceived , you could examine it and say what the resulting child would be like ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ So , you are saying that , although you do n't miss sex now , you are worried about it and wonder if you ought to miss it ? ’ said the counsellor . |
| 5 | ‘ You are saying that you were again relegated to second place , my lord ? ’ |
| 6 | Do n't clench your fists tensely , or get so enthusiastic about what you are saying that you wave your arms about and knock over the wine . |
| 7 | ‘ If I read you rightly , ’ said Radulfus , having searched Cadfael 's face , and found it in very grave earnest , ‘ you are saying that the young man was attacked in mistake for a Benedictine brother . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Then , by the same token , ’ said the earl , ‘ you are saying that the man who finished the work was one who did have cause to want Aldhelm removed from the world , before he ever reached the abbey gatehouse . |
| 9 | The counsellor said , weighing her words , ‘ Perhaps you are saying that you were right in your feeling , your sense that there was something going on , even though it was not an affair but a friendship . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You are saying that you did not see your brother alive again after the meal you had together yesterday evening . |
| 11 | You are saying that I will not ride there , or open a hollowing , or step down through a cave , but must find the threshold to a journey inwards . |
| 12 | But he told Mr Brown : ‘ You are saying that in some way income-related benefits have to be adjusted for particular price rises that occur . |
| 13 | In other words , you are saying that the morality to be found in George Eliot 's novels is quite different from the more conventional Christian morality that 's found in other novels of that period . |
| 14 | But you are saying that hospitals must pay more attention to the justification of , for performing an X-ray ? |
| 15 | You 're saying that I 'm pretty hopeless at everything , but somebody might , just might , be prepared to put up with my teaching . ’ |
| 16 | It was sensible , as Mrs Thatcher had , ‘ to counsel caution in the maelstrom , but it all depends on whether you 're saying that in order to guide events in a steady fashion or whether you 're using it as an alibi to do nothing . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're saying that if , with my mathematical mind , I can say that I have seen five percent of love at Bristol , why could n't one person contain one hundred percent of love . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You 're saying that this crazed man fitted the picture ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You 're saying that because you do know . ’ |
| 20 | You 're saying that Tom and old Maggie Sullivan and I cut his throat for him ? ’ |
| 21 | Alan me for me , mathematical but I accept what you 're saying that you mean numerical for most of that alphabetical as as opposed |
| 22 | But you know , the these people ha have hardly been treated erm and a , a contract for obtaining more health care year by year so , you know if yo , if you 're saying that erm these wi will will reduce or that the action has already taken place , it ca n't reduce erm so , then again it 's , it 's not really relevant to erm the proposal of running a , a health authority , you know , these people should talk . |
| 23 | ‘ And you 're saying that our space is like that too ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You 're saying that if someone goes up from the North Pole , and keeps going in a dead straight line a really truly dead straight line — they will eventually come to the Earth — ahead of them ? |
| 25 | So , you 're saying that when I saw the colours change , that was like what happens to the police siren . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You 're saying that in a building — a skyscraper , say — on the top floor , the clocks go faster than those on the ground floor ! ’ |
| 27 | So yo , so you 're saying that it should have been explained to the man from West Calder that that 's the sort of , er level of charges he 'd had to pay and if he did n't want to pay it he should have taken a different house ? |
| 28 | So I can say that really what worries you is more the crime and the drugs much more than prostitution , as far as prostitution you 're saying that basically there 's a |
| 29 | So so you 're saying that basically it was outsiders who erm |
| 30 | So the thing you 're saying you 're saying that people |