Example sentences of "[pron] say [that] [pers pn] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 2 | I said that I was going to take you away to Arrancay with me — and keep you there away from all the bitterness and the lies . |
| 3 | ‘ You must need your head tested ’ , was one of the more polite reactions when I said that I was going to spend two weeks holiday walking some 120 miles up-and-down mountains rather than lying in the sun . |
| 4 | The DNA content must be a small proportion of the total , so why did I say that it was raining DNA rather than cellulose ? |
| 5 | She says that he was hanging by his dressing gown cord from a banister . |
| 6 | She says that it was spinning in the road . |
| 7 | Miss Bhutto is spitting fury , not just over the matter of the provincial assemblies , but also because she says that she was given fewer ministries in the caretaker government ( just under a quarter ) than she deserves . |
| 8 | She said that she was waiting for some of her belongings to be sent on , but she 'd supply all her tax and National Insurance details as soon as they came . |
| 9 | If you 're asked , will you say that I was sneezing out here ? " |
| 10 | ‘ I remember her saying that she was trying so damn hard and all she needed was a pat on the back , ’ recalls a friend . |
| 11 | They said that he was to prepare the execution of the deed . |
| 12 | He says that he was operating when a bullet wizzed in through the window and hit the surgeon next to him . |
| 13 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 14 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 15 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |
| 16 | Had he said that he was going to his death in Lucifer 's inferno ? |
| 17 | There 's only one , and it says that it was built in ninety one , and it was n't , it was built in ninety three . |
| 18 | If we printed details of the case it would make her identity too plain to the authorities but suffice it to say that she was detained with some others for celebrating a ‘ banned person ’ — Nelson Mandela . |
| 19 | He said that it was suspected that the SIB unit at the cottage was an army intelligence assassination squad . |
| 20 | He said that it was felt that the change would give both parties more freedom of choice , and stressed that he would continue to use Tory on a freelance basis and was not intending to appoint another stable jockey before the end of the season . |
| 21 | I would declare myself in the waiting-room of a railway station if it were necessary ) , he said that I was humiliating him . |
| 22 | He said that I was killing myself , getting injured and mashing myself up for nothing . |
| 23 | He said that he was competing with Windows 3 because ‘ when monopolies come into play , innovation slows down . ’ |
| 24 | Mike rang the solicitor up yesterday and he said that he was sending out the contracts to us |
| 25 | An illustration of deception by words is Banaster ( 1979 ) 68 Cr App R 272 ( CA ) , which held that a judge was entitled to leave to the jury the question whether a mini cab driver at Heathrow airport deceived a foreigner when he said that he was driving an " airport taxi " because the foreigner , who was on his first visit to England , might have thought that the taxi was an official one . |
| 26 | She never fussed when he said that he was going down to the country and did n't know when he 'd be back . |
| 27 | Then he said that he was going to meet Jack and talk things over . |
| 28 | the Beverley sisters were on and they said they used to wear very daring clothes and the B B C banned them from showing their navels , cos you 're not supposed to show your navel on television and you could n't say the word , oh yeah Lonnie Donegan was on and he said that he was banned from singing this song er in eighty forty was such a little drip and in it he says we beat the bloody British and they would n't let him sing that because he swore so he had to sing we beat the ruddy British |
| 29 | Right he then went to the pulpit and he said that he was gon na preach about Lazarus actually but he 's a quiet fellow and he shouted at the top of his voice I 'm speaking about satanic bondage ! |
| 30 | Oh I remember , I remember thinking cos he said that he was gon na be away , and he would n't be here on Tuesday , so he goes . |