Example sentences of "[was/were] saying that " in BNC.
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| 1 | on there because I I I I , this following instructions I remembered why I put it now we are , but one you were saying that |
| 2 | ‘ You were saying that … ’ |
| 3 | thinking er you were saying that er |
| 4 | Again on this very course a while back it was only three people in the group in the week that I was watching and the guy who was running the session had , had worked the equation wrongly on the rating or whatever and the other two , never seen him before in their lives were saying that 's wrong and he started getting really annoyed . |
| 5 | My honourable friend the member for er South Hamms , Madam Deputy Speaker , er gave I thought a a an amusing but perceptive speech about the growth of deregulation , indeed some were saying that deregulation er is in fact the fastest growing part of bureaucracy in Whitehall and there have been calls to deregulate the deregulators er , he is of course quite right that Parkinson 's theory can extend in this area and one can find that deregulation acquires a life and momentum erm of its own . |
| 6 | and they were saying that er , South Africa 's going to have to import food this year |
| 7 | And they were saying , they were saying that , you know , you associate strokes with older people , but there 's a hundred young people a week have strokes ! |
| 8 | I mean , I , I could n't believe it when they were saying that . |
| 9 | Yeah , cos I mean , I were saying that yesterday , that , that little bit of damaged carpet in there because it 's a carpet |
| 10 | And oh they were talking about Rod they was they were saying that , you know , about Rod getting married |
| 11 | I know , you were saying that . |
| 12 | Lucca in the shop was saying that . |
| 13 | We had a business man on Question Time who was saying that five hundred million pound fraud going on in the benefits , right ? |
| 14 | charging on you gon na cost an arm and a leg like that 's why I was saying that you know , we do n't want too much to start with . |
| 15 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |
| 16 | Well it looks like it , I know she was saying that er on about er |
| 17 | Well , I was saying that yesterday to them . |
| 18 | And they said , just said in the end again there was er an article or something and it was saying that you know that er did did you eventually get the money ? |
| 19 | she was saying that you know mother is very evil and wicked . |
| 20 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 21 | Er I was saying that |
| 22 | Well he he was saying that , that the boss was the one that provided the money that the chap was . |
| 23 | Mm that 's what that girl 's just said to me you get a lot of erm , she said he 'll know it 's hard and I was saying that you know I , I put all me eggs in one basket with that , I mean that really knocked me for six |
| 24 | yeah , Cliff was saying that er , he said all yeah , he said he 's er he goes through the if , if you 're not sort of paying attention to him you |
| 25 | no erm Jim was saying that old |
| 26 | else was saying that |
| 27 | Aye was saying that . |
| 28 | That 's what I was saying that |
| 29 | I mean he was saying that er erm what do you call him ? |
| 30 | Now th he was saying that , it 's being argued here that , that very seldom is it that the punishment exceeded the crime , that they 're able to assess , look at the behaviour of the people in power before the movement er gathered pace and to , to , to assess how they er they were , how sort of humane and so on and , and by saying that depending on how you , you , you did before hand , you w you now your punishment , it will , will be a administered accordingly which is an interesting concept , I 'm not sure quite how accurate these assessments could 've been , I think really when things get going it 's er really very difficult to stop them . |