Example sentences of "once said [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was never to say hello to you , and he once said that he would not be interested in his child ‘ until he can go out shooting with me ’ . |
| 2 | Short and chubby , he once said that he was the only senior Hong Kong official who could see eye-to-eye with the equally diminutive Deng Xiaoping . |
| 3 | LIKE Neil Kinnock , Des Wilson once said that he wanted to retire at 50 . |
| 4 | W. H. Auden once said that he learned to read by taking down the Encyclopaedia Britannica from his father 's densely stocked shelves . |
| 5 | He once said that he was not at all fit but was terribly well . |
| 6 | The barrister at once said that he was ‘ less concerned about the amount that could be ordered as to whether any order should be made at all . ’ |
| 7 | He once said that he might even be able to ‘ find me a position in the City ’ . |
| 8 | Mr Major then angrily turned on Labour leader John Smith : ‘ There was a time when the leader of the Opposition once said that he had always believed that Britain 's future lay in Europe , and we must take a confident and leading role in the Community . |