Example sentences of "quote [conj] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ODD ONE OUT : 1 All except Neil Kinnock were quoted as saying they 'd leave the country if Labour won the election . |
| 2 | THE weeping Duchess of York , attending the annual meeting of the Motor Neurone Disease Association last Saturday , was quoted as saying she will not rest until a cure has been found . |
| 3 | He has been quoted as saying he wants to play long-ball football and that 6ft 2in Deane would come in as his target man . |
| 4 | The envoy was quoted as saying he arranged for them to share the house while they attended arms talks in Geneva in 1984 . |
| 5 | Crawford was quoted as saying he could not decide ‘ off the bat , as it were , ’ but that he was interested . |
| 6 | The amateur radio enthusiast is quoted as saying he considered destroying the tape but eventually decided to hand it to The Sun . |
| 7 | Livingston was quoted as saying he was given the supplement drink by a friend and took it for three weeks before the Games , not knowing it contained the steroid. — PA |
| 8 | A.D.A.S. are once quoted as saying our land would grow nothing but Rhododendrons and Heather ( and when their advice was free , we would call them out and go away and do the opposite ) but in true pioneering spirit we have proved them all wrong ! |