Example sentences of "[vb past] say that [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had telephoned the present Archdeacon of Woodborough , a valued friend , the friend who had indeed suggested and supported his application , and he had said that he simply did not know why Peter had been turned down , he had no idea . |
| 2 | Mordecai had said that he usually approached the shop through the bazaar , and that was the side they had been watching . |
| 3 | In his testimony to Congress in July 1987 — which had been given under immunity and was , therefore , inadmissible at his trial — Poindexter had said that he alone had authorized the Iran-contra operation and that Reagan had known nothing of it [ see pp. 35828-29 ] . |
| 4 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |
| 5 | Maggie wanted to say that she only wished to go back , preferably on foot , but by now words were a little difficult to utter . |