Example sentences of "[noun] to say [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ use threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour ’ This point is best proved by taking a statement from a witness to say that he felt the words or behaviour were threatening , abusive or insulting . |
| 2 | Gerry Wills , the Frampton Rovers manager , gave me a ring to say that he had a proposition that may well be to Athletico 's advantage . |
| 3 | Having listened to the arguments of my Hon. Friends I do not know why the Minister has not leapt to his feet to say that he accepts the new clause . |
| 4 | It is no defence for the director to say that he was absent when the play was performed , unless he can take advantage of the special defence that he did not know , and had no reason to suspect , that the performance would involve the use of the offending words or behaviour . |
| 5 | He was logical and courteous , so that it was unnecessary for Dorrainge to say that he supposed a Longhand had nearly always featured in Ireland 's greatest defeats , and Lugh was only following tradition . |
| 6 | John Barratt , for that was his name , paid an investigatory visit to Coniston Mines , was impressed with what he found , and wrote on the 4th August 1823 to Lady le Fleming to say that he was considering taking the mine . |
| 7 | It is extraordinary for the hon. Gentleman to say that he is worried also about the administrative complexity of our proposal . |
| 8 | It is not , of course , enough for the landlord to say that he honestly believes that the house is fit and proper for safe habitation . |
| 9 | ‘ You only need one person to say that he or she benefited from the product to lose the case , ’ she said . |
| 10 | By now Kapuscinski is on his ‘ last legs ’ , and he telexes Warsaw to say that he wants to leave and that it is ‘ more or less clear ’ that ‘ the Angolans will win ’ . |
| 11 | He rang me up last night to say that he is more or less confined to barracks now in the evening now that Phil is home . |
| 12 | All Spike did was call her back from Greece on St Valentine 's day to say that he had to find out who he really was . |
| 13 | During one of my trips to the USA in the 1960s , Shaheen telephoned my hotel one day to say that he had arranged for me to have lunch with Richard Nixon , who at the time had not yet declared that he would run for the presidency in the election of 1968 . |
| 14 | Although he had made it a condition of his NBC appearance that his whereabouts not be disclosed , Neal Miller called next day to say that he had taken over as his handler and to reprimand him for doing the broadcast without permission . |
| 15 | The secretary of the local tennis club telephones to say that he wants to make a booking for their annual dinner and dance . |
| 16 | He left a meticulously explanatory note on her dressing-table to say that he and the child would be telephoning , and went to ground at the airport hotel . |
| 17 | Anyone who has practised at the Bar knows well that , in the sort of case that arises on an estate , where a number of people are involved , intimidation is such that it may prove impossible for a young man to find witnesses to say that he had left the scene of the crime and that another person was guilty of aggravated theft . |
| 18 | Shortly after his appointment as Minister of Housing in October 1964 , he telephoned me on a Sunday morning to say that he was having great trouble with his civil servants because he wished to promote an anti-eviction Bill , which would make it impossible for people to be evicted from their premises without special precautions . |
| 19 | Although Woolf stated that ‘ there is no single cause of riots ’ ( para 9.23 ) it may not be too great a distortion to say that he saw the lack of legitimacy of the prison for its inmates as the key factor in explaining the disorders . |
| 20 | Once or twice during one of my tutorials with my Polish pupil , Leslie telephoned from Darvel to say that he would shortly be in Edinburgh . |
| 21 | I do n't really think it 's good enough for Nelly to say that he was socialist because I do n't think his attitudes to women |
| 22 | Winston phoned me back within an hour to say that he had spoken to Harriman , that Harriman had spoken to the State Department , that they had dispatched two telegrams — one to Pretoria and one to Cape Town , the places between which the governmental functions are divided — and that in addition he himself had sent a telegram to the Prime Minister of South Africa , signed by the not unimpressive name of Winston Churchill . |
| 23 | The minister 's conversations with his Iranian opposite number , Ali Akhbar Velayati , led the Iranian to say that he thought Iraq was indeed ready to withdraw from Kuwait but might have conditions . |
| 24 | Will the Prime Minister take time this week to write to the broadcasting authorities to say that he is willing to take part in a live , televised debate between the party leaders during the next general election campaign ? |
| 25 | Once the income which is the property of the trust deed is to be deemed the income of Mr Astor ( that is , is to be treated for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts in all respects as if it were the property of Mr Astor ) , it automatically becomes impossible for the purposes of those Acts to say that he receives anything which springs from a right of action against the trustee in respect of his income . |
| 26 | Thus , it is not open to an officer of a company to say that he was dealing as agent on behalf of the company . |
| 27 | Lamb had finally yielded to an invitation from Coleridge to travel west , and wrote at the end of June to say that he hoped to arrive at Stowey the following weak . |
| 28 | Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that . |
| 29 | Brutus says that he has no real reason to believe that Caesar would change his nature like this but because they had no proof either was it would be too much of a presumption to say that he would not change at all . |
| 30 | When the Dutch troops landed and passed through Wells , Ken wrote to James to say that he had withdrawn from his palace , taking his carriage horses lest they be commandeered ; indeed his previous service at William 's court would have caused much embarrassment if he had remained to meet him . |