Example sentences of "[noun pl] say [that] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many countries say that they have to make arms to give the population jobs . |
| 2 | Officials say that they have tried to keep any disturbance to a minimum by limiting the closures to Sundays only . |
| 3 | THE world 's airlines say that they have carried a billion of the 5.5 billion people on Earth . |
| 4 | Members were pleased when constituents said that they had seen them on the box , and only one Member had received complaints that he had not been seen . |
| 5 | And I heard Monks say that he 'd seen Oliver in the street , and that he knew at once Oliver was the child he was looking for , although I could n't hear why . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Many patients said that they had had to avoid lying on one side ( not always the side of pain ) from the onset of their symptoms . |
| 8 | One third of teachers say that they have had the use of INSET days to conduct their review : the same proportion have undertaken assessment of pupils especially for this purpose and have kept a diary as part of the review process . |
| 9 | The police say that they 've had reports of sightings of Sir Roy around London . |
| 10 | It extends , it seems , to a claim for compensation in respect of all the loss which the plaintiffs say that they have suffered as a result of the transaction concerning C.M.C. and the bakery , including the amounts which the plaintiffs have had to pay as guarantors and compensation for loss of earnings , loss of reputation and mental anguish . |
| 11 | She replied : ‘ Yes thank you , ’ although some reporters said that she had spoken in a ‘ soulful way ’ and appeared quite miserable . |
| 12 | On Nov. 1 Bulgarian police said that they had seized a quantity of plutonium-239 said to be Russian in origin . |
| 13 | In mid-January the police said that they had arrested under the Internal Security Act a sixth man allegedly involved in a plot to take Sabah out of the Malaysian federation ; he was named as Vincent Chung , group manager of a company controlled by the Sabah Foundation . |
| 14 | In Madzimbamuto v. Lardner Burke ( P.C. , 1969 ) Lord Reid said that even if Parliament acted improperly or unwisely , it was not open to the courts to say that it had acted illegally and that the resultant legislation was invalid . |
| 15 | Later Marenches said that he had told the Shah to beware of the mullahs and the merchants in the bazaar , but above all to beware of Jimmy Carter , " I told him that this national and international disaster , President Carter , had decided to replace him . " |
| 16 | Olszewski said that he had approved the retirement because once a civilian Minister of Defence had been appointed in December 1991 — see pp. 38685-86 ] , there was no post suitable for such a high-ranking officer . |
| 17 | As they drove off , the LRDG boys said that they had heard and seen everything and had just had to stay to the end . |
| 18 | The others said that they had gained what knowledge they had elsewhere . |
| 19 | Others said that they had acted under orders . |
| 20 | President Joseph Saidu Momoh was reported to have fled to neighbouring Guinea on April 30 after mutinous soldiers said that they had seized control of the country . |