Example sentences of "[prep] saying [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Niall Taylor , 33 , of Billingham , Cleveland , persuaded Carol Kennedy to go flying after saying he had won the trip on the four-seater Cessna in a raffle . |
| 2 | She might think he was a little coarse doing that after saying he despised her , but so what ? |
| 3 | Rachel was taken to her home in Mossley Hill by friends after saying she felt ill at a 21st birthday party in Wavertree . |
| 4 | Bourgois asked how to use the car and she slipped away to fetch help from neighbours after saying she needed something from the boot , said Mr Bright . |
| 5 | Despite saying he had no money they cracked his ribs … kicked his leg … stabbed him with a fork … and slashed at his face with a modelling knife . |
| 6 | His gentle manner of saying it robbed the remark of any reproof it might otherwise have carried . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's the equivalent of saying you drank beer but did n't swallow it , ’ expostulated one columnist . |
| 8 | She said it was a poetic way of saying you wanted to be left alone . ’ |
| 9 | The reason the Democrats lost was that Stevenson lacked ‘ the presidential image ’ — which sounds suspiciously like saying he did n't become president because he did n't become president . |
| 10 | " Your anthropologists laugh at us for saying we came from the stars . |
| 11 | Similar sentiments could be heard elsewhere , too , and people in Munich were arrested for saying they preferred ‘ Wilhelm by the grace of God ’ to the ‘ idiot from Berchtesgaden ’ . |
| 12 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 13 | A lady phoned in saying she 'd been sitting in a café when some animal rights campaigners carrying collection tins arrived and ordered a meal . |
| 14 | And it was a young fellow who lives up Lane so I felt quite comfortable in saying I did n't think they had any young fellas who lived in Lane . |
| 15 | Mona assumed a quiet dignity before saying she had not wanted Eliot upset . |
| 16 | Apart from saying he had given up singing and trumpet-playing , he invented things , such as that his school had suggested he go in for the Young Musician of the Year contest . |
| 17 | Yeah he 's a very you know it 's funny I know it 's the worst time to do a phone in actually because people are doing other oh I 've got me foot caught in the whatsit but erm I thought I thought we 'd get loads of people on saying I 'd been very rude saying that this was er er er nation of animal haters and abusers . |
| 18 | The blue one was on saying it had been tested ! |
| 19 | Only the suspicion that he had something important to say and could not work around to saying it kept her out there with him . |
| 20 | But newspapers responded by saying they had nothing to apologise for , and described the statement as ‘ astonishing . ’ |
| 21 | After you 'd totally devastated me by saying you did n't find me remotely attractive , I was left racking my brains to think of a way to change your mind . |
| 22 | Peter began by saying he had decided to use his spare time for research rather than editing a new series . |
| 23 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 24 | He began by saying he had been asked to speak on censorship and that he had been upset by the reception meted out to Sinead O'Connor at the Madison Square Garden Bob Dylan tribute . |
| 25 | Then the minister deigned to appear and defended himself by saying he had once come out to a stranger who called , but the man proved to be ‘ a little worth person ’ . |
| 26 | Seeing him in good spirits now , Boswell teased him for his earlier hesitancy , called him ‘ a delicate Londoner … a macaroni ’ , and Johnson defended himself with an unserious disingenuousness by saying he had only feared not finding a horse able enough to carry him . |
| 27 | Hurd ended up by saying he went to Eton on a scholarship . |
| 28 | But he was in no way repentant , for he had parried this by saying he wished he had killed him and if he ever came across him again he would make another attempt . |
| 29 | He upset Mary further by saying he thought Adam 's sister Bridget very attractive and it would be an inducement to him if she became one of the members . |
| 30 | Imagine our laughter and hilarity when the same dear friend began our next meeting by saying he wanted to share something before we began , and went on : ‘ This morning , as I was praying , the Lord gave me the gift of tongues . ’ |