Example sentences of "[vb past] say [conj] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party broke up when Father D'Arcy , whose life was organized round the liturgy , rose saying that he had to attend an obligatory office at Campion Hall . |
| 2 | Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’ |
| 3 | " I 'm not going to John O'Groats , " she 'd said as she had cantered off . |
| 4 | She added said that she had believed Allen had homosexual tendencies and she had concerns that he would sexually abuse Satchel . |
| 5 | There was nearly a mile of dense woodland at this point before the swampy ground began and it was over an hour before Crane returned saying that no-one had passed on that side . |
| 6 | He did say that he 'd tried to ring before I got back from lunch but I 'm not one hundred percent certain . |
| 7 | ‘ We are just at a point if we have anything to say , we really could not , ’ the company told Reuter , but it did say that it had hired Morgan Stanley & Co as its ‘ financial consultant , ’ along with Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette , but declined to say whether the investment banks are underwriters for a stock offering . |
| 8 | Terms were not disclosed , although the tabloid did say that it has received a capital injection from Duna , which will be used for investment purposes . |
| 9 | I wished I could , for I could n't forget that what she had said had seemed significant , and of greater , stronger import than anything she had said since she had come back . |
| 10 | A Reuters report on Feb. 25 , however , said that refugees arriving from Kuwait in al-Ruweished , Jordan , had said that they had seen no evidence of Iraqi troops engaging in systematic atrocities or executing civilians . |
| 11 | Celia had immediately suggested that she might like to spend the night but , rather to her relief , Alison had said that she had to get back to accompany Geoffrey to some local gathering that evening . |
| 12 | In a £500,000 damages action at the Court of Session , she had said that she had had a collapse after being injected with anaesthetic drugs in the operating theatre . |
| 13 | not got the second part , anyway , he phoned up about ten to two and said , but , but before that she had said that he had met Mark |
| 14 | The husband of the cleaning woman had been a soldier , and she had said that he had had no choice but to obey his orders to shoot Jews . |
| 15 | ( b ) That later on the same night , after Zaidie had reached home , the defendant had driven there with another man and confronted him with a gun and had said that he had come to move out Paulette. ( c ) That after that incident , but still in June 1986 , when Zaidie was driving into a friend 's house , the defendant drove up and , saying that he had heard that Zaidie had hit Paulette , again threatened to kill him if he touched her . |
| 16 | ‘ I agree , ’ Trish had said when they 'd stopped laughing . |
| 17 | ‘ The experts say it dates to the first century , ’ Anna Sabatini had said when she 'd noticed Caroline admiring it . |
| 18 | Something he had said or somebody had said , something … |
| 19 | But then she remembered the light beams and what they had said as they had passed her : ‘ Not fair . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm so glad that Uncle James did n't sell the family home , ’ Liz had said as they had walked around the garden just before she had left Devon to catch the plane back to New York . |
| 21 | Fernando had said and she had said , and really it boiled down to the misuse of the three most precious words in the universal language — I love you ! |
| 22 | ‘ I am very proud of you , lady ’ , he had said and she had glowed with happiness and a secret bubbling excitement that came from believing she could conquer the world with her talent . |
| 23 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 24 | Not that they needed to hear what Mr Evans had to say because they had heard it before . |
| 25 | Speaking at his home last night , Mr Hall refused to say if he had known Timex had been planning to close the factory . |