Example sentences of "[vb pp] to say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | " But I 've come to say that I told the police station 43 is an agreed squat . |
| 2 | A telephone message may have come to say that a parent has died , a letter saying that a wife is seeking a divorce , but there is nowhere to hide and be alone with sorrow . |
| 3 | A little earlier the mother of Dr Neil 's surgery boy , who carried out the doctor 's errands on the bicycle which lived in the outhouse , had come to say that Eddie had broken his arm and would not be fit to carry out his duties . |
| 4 | They are admittedly themselves valueless and are thrown away and it was for that reason , no doubt , that Upjohn J. was constrained to say that their value lay in the evidence they afforded of success in an advertising campaign . |
| 5 | Alison had rung to say that she was coming up to London for an appointment and could they lunch at a restaurant to which they had both occasionally gone when working at Brentwoods , if they happened to be feeling affluent . |
| 6 | Wally had rung to say that it was black tie , and he 'd forgotten to tell Debbie . |
| 7 | And then Ida 's rung to say that er our buyers have just rung him to say they 've a , got the cash , agreed and its all sorted out . |
| 8 | Each time , the review officer asks ‘ is there the evidence ? ’ ; each time he or she is permitted to say that it may be obtained by further questioning . |
| 9 | To protect themselves , they were to be permitted to say that this differential was being implemented ‘ at the Minister 's request ’ . |
| 10 | The question is whether he is in addition permitted to say that , although he was aware that he was causing difficulties , he was doing so from the best of intentions . |
| 11 | In any event , if luck was on her side , and by her reckoning it was high time luck paid her a visit , the garage might well have delivered her car to her hotel by now — or at least have telephoned to say that it was ready for collection . |
| 12 | Glashow , for example , was reported to say that the Nobel committee took a ‘ bit of a chance ’ because ‘ nobody has yet built a machine that is capable to check ’ the new particles predicted ( international Herald Tribune , 16 October , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | A woman 's voice is reported to say that her husband ‘ makes my life real torture ’ . |
| 14 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 15 | Whilst many people have written to say that they found the letter itself to be interesting and factual , the view has also been forcefully expressed that the quotation on the envelope implies a view that rape is somehow wrong , and to be opposed , only or primarily insofar as it may reduce a woman 's chances of marriage . |
| 16 | The Grimaud family had written to say that they would meet her with a blue Corvette . |
| 17 | Despite her parents ' invitation to Harry to stay with them in London while he was back in England , he 'd written to say that he had already promised to go to Bertie Alcott 's home in Cadogan Square . |
| 18 | Very late in the day they had written to say that some arrangement had fallen through and they would be prepared to play us if they could find sufficient members interested in taking part . |
| 19 | Do not start work before the council has written to say that you may go ahead . |
| 20 | Can we keep nibbling at this Chairman , can a letter be written to say that we 're , we 're rather concerned about this methodology , and psychology of this ? |
| 21 | A READER from Dromore has written to say that the cathedral in her home town installed a loop system after she ‘ got at ’ the minister and vestry about it . |
| 22 | Sir David said that in the last few days , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , has written to say that NHS funds can not be used in this way . |
| 23 | One of our most faithful customers has written to say that she sees us a ‘ a crusade gathering strength as time marches on ’ . |
| 24 | Erm , to congratulate you firstly on the level of settlements that have been achieved in the extracting and building conc building products division erm secondly , on , on one six seven the refused to make an offer and , er , if you could perhaps update us as to what , er method we 're gon na approach employers now , erm , to , to secure settlements in that industry er , we think it was deplorable that no offer was made and we also think it was deplorable that E C C Building Products decided to say that even if an offer had been made , they would n't have been prepared to implement it . |
| 25 | After receiving my version of the working drawing , Mr. phoned to say that the drawing did not have sufficient detail , and that another Mr. from the Glasgow office would be in touch to ask for a clarified drawing . |
| 26 | Stevie had phoned to say that he would not be coming home that Saturday . |
| 27 | You can usually tell a good Fender before you plug it in , and I 've got to say that acoustically the SRV is one of the loudest and most solid-sounding Strats I 've come across ( and in that I include non-trem Strats , which usually sound better under these conditions ) . |
| 28 | I hate the sort of book that says , " Now a word of warning here , " but I 've got to say that all these old mine workings are dangerous . |
| 29 | I 've got to say that I did enjoy this outing ; although the day began with a freezing start it warmed up later and I had a pleasant time working amongst the iron and other junk that abounds on the riverside . |
| 30 | Those of us who attend soccer matches as I do er regularly you 've got to say that er it 's not gone away , it 's merely been contained . |