Example sentences of "saying [that] she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had written to her mother giving no address , saying that she had left her husband and was going abroad , that she could do nothing more for her mother and had her own life to live . |
| 2 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 3 | It had come out of the blue : a brief note from her , saying that she had to undergo a surgical operation . |
| 4 | He would not report her fate to the Police , and he could divert enquiries by saying that she had gone to friends in the country . |
| 5 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 6 | When we arrived she greeted us kindly , her first honeymoon couple , showed us round the cottage , then excused herself , saying that she had 600 lettuces to plant out before tea . |
| 7 | Again , in October 1281 , Edward I wrote to her , saying that she had always striven to keep the peace between Henry III and Louis , and between Philip III and himself . |
| 8 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 9 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 10 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
| 11 | She lied to Dr Wyn , saying that she had wrenched her shoulder , since although there was nothing inherently shameful about noises in the head she did not wish to confide in him . |
| 12 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |
| 13 | Then she took me to the centre by saying that she had asked my husband and had given permission . |
| 14 | Senator Juan Ponce Enrile , leader of the Nacionalista Party , the main opposition party , called for her impeachment , saying that she had violated the Constitution by allowing US forces to stay without a treaty . |
| 15 | She too was saying that she had an urge to go down with her broom and sweep up the these building works . |
| 16 | He did n't say it nastily , he just said that they were all saying that she had thunder thighs , he did n't say I thought , I mean him personally . |