Example sentences of "say that [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I would say that between the ages of 12 and 25 , he was the big-shot .
2 I shall say that outside the House if there is anyone who is worried about privilege .
3 I can only say that on the evidence of Tesco 's cheapest , the rest will have a hard job keeping up .
4 Erm I must say that on the clothing scene , because I did criticize it in my earlier statements , er that when I was so young I thought it was so frumpy and I was so pleased when I was married and got my own income that , you know , I could go elsewhere and choose something .
5 So you 're not gon na say that on the tape then are you Hel ?
6 The stripy away shirts are dead good , and I 'd say that on the backs of the fans , they outnumbered the white hooped jobs by about 10 to 1 .
7 I actually heard a minister say that on the radio last week .
8 The problem is I ca n't say that at the minute cos I have n't got my print done .
9 We work with about 60 women a year , and I know many of them would genuinely say that at the start they were unemployable , that they could have gone back to drugs , ended up back in prison , but they did n't because Clean Break was there at the right time for them , to give them the opportunities they needed .
10 Erm , my fourth one was the effect on the medical centre , bearing in mind , but I did n't say that at the time , that there 's to be no longer sheltered , and there could be young families , remember , more rowdy an element , and maybe we should make details of that .
11 And we 've not had I I must say that over the years I might have had two cases perhaps when there 's been a query with regard to that in terms of packing .
12 Or you could say that from the story told under the palm-tree or round the winter hearth there developed the novel .
13 Nobody can say that by the year 2000 there will be five pits , 14 pits — or any number of pits .
14 Despite reservations about comparatively small numbers of patients , we can say that by the trial criteria , the diet did not prevent or reduce gall stone recurrence — whether or not an adjustment is made for the stone free interval .
15 If that is so , I would then say that by the time you get to the modification stage and the County Council has published a proposal for the general location , I therefore think at that stage the need for the criterion has disappeared , so it may be that the approved policy will not need to contain such criteria .
16 Erm I would say that in the past the loyalist paramilitaries , apart from the obvious thing which was easy going out just and killing catholics as they 've been doing recently .
17 I would totally agree with that conclusion and I would say that in the York situation , you should choose the one that is closer to York than is farthest out .
18 Now to go back to the example of the cooker , if you do say that in the showrooms you will certainly be asked to sign a legal document .
19 ‘ Mr Stevens , I may not have been a housekeeper for long , but I would say that in the time I have been , my abilities have attracted some very generous remarks . ’
20 However he did say that in the years ending June 1983 and June 1984 the total number of High Court judges so involved was 28.4 As no details were given , this figure is almost meaningless but if the categories counted were similar to those for the period of 1953–73 those two later years show almost a doubling , on average .
21 One might say that in the light of the passage quoted on page 39 there is no endorsement for the neglect of grammar in Wilkins ' proposals either .
22 In the '70s , people would say that in the future , pop music would be chiefly a matter not of songs , but of strange space-age bleeps and fizzes .
23 you , you , yesterday you said you do n't say that in the absence of restrictions the immunity is heard
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