Example sentences of "[noun prp] said [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard said he saw a raven . |
| 2 | Richard said he saw a raven . |
| 3 | Richard said he saw a raven . |
| 4 | Mr Maggs said he saw a friend of his being ill-treated in the back of the van , The police were using too much force . |
| 5 | Swales said he had a lot of flair , but admitted he was an unknown quantity . |
| 6 | I could n't say , You 'd give them such a shock that it 'd come as small fry when Darling Bina said she wanted a career on the stage . |
| 7 | In the morning Tom said he had a cold . |
| 8 | But Sam said he had a surprise to show her ; and Sarah , obviously put up to it by him , claimed she would prefer to sit in the shade on the terrace and do a water colour of the garden at La Gracieuse . |
| 9 | PF said she had a job of work to do for which she was paid . |
| 10 | Dr Mumby said he had a duty to put the potential benefits of allergy diagnosis and treatment in public view , which was why he attracted publicity in newspapers rather than professional journals . |
| 11 | Earlier , in a visit to the headquarters of the Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol , Mr Rutskoy said he favoured a referendum on whether Crimea should be returned to Russia , 32 years after Khrushchev presented it to Ukraine . |
| 12 | Liz said I won a raffle prize . |
| 13 | Shares of Cirrus Logic Inc plunged 30% on heavy volume following the company 's disappointing fiscal fourth quarter figures ( CI No 2,158 ) : Cirrus reported earnings of 10 cents a share , and the mean estimate of seven analysts surveyed by First Call had put fourth-quarter earnings at 31 cents a share ; Cirrus said it experienced a decline in profitability because of demand fluctuations in the disk-drive industry , where inventories are high ; analysts said its earnings wo n't improve until the September quarter ; disk guru Jim Porter , president of Disk/Trend , said some of Cirrus ' earnings shortfall is likely coming from Conner Peripherals Inc , which also recently disappointed Wall Street with its own results , because the rest of the disk drive industry is still healthy ; analysts also told Reuter that Cirrus is facing tougher competition in disk controllers from Adaptec Inc , Milpitas , California . |
| 14 | And Dinda said she needed a filling , a re-filling actually and she said it 's the first that she 's been to a dentist that she could remember that she did n't notice the needle coming in , part she hates is the needle in the gum . |
| 15 | ‘ Mitford said he had a row with him . |
| 16 | A spokeswoman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said it had a network of volunteers ‘ monitoring the situation ’ throughout the province . |
| 17 | In it Tobin said he needed a bit of cash , a loan . |
| 18 | Martin Appleby and his wife Harriet said they warned a ship 's officer about the danger . |