Example sentences of "say he [modal v] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say he could have a future when he 's finished his studies . " |
| 2 | He says — what 's that phrase of his ? — he says he can drop a stone into that particular well and never hear the splash . |
| 3 | He says he can guarantee a student will pass after just 3 weeks cramming . |
| 4 | Well , Herman Schrijver says he will hire a car when the warm weather comes and drive her down to lunch with me in the Green Belt … . |
| 5 | And er he , of course with him being a blacksmith , he could get a job anywhere in America , he says he could leave a town tonight and land in another town , he says and he could be sure of getting a job with him being a blacksmith . |
| 6 | Mr Yeltsin 's aides have said he would ignore a vote to remove him by the Congress , which was elected before the collapse of the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Sooty was famous for his jokes and it was said he could make a cat laugh just by looking at it . |
| 8 | and it was said he could sniff a copper out a mile away . |
| 9 | And Murtach has said he will lead a party to Carnach through the snows once Ringill is secured . ’ |
| 10 | Our son has said he will get a bank loan if necessary . |
| 11 | He ran out into the wet streets saying he would find a taxi . |
| 12 | Since receiving this , he has contacted us again saying he would like a change . |
| 13 | This I did , and good old Dad was so nice about it , saying he would get a sheet of glass and putty at the week-end . |
| 14 | He went on to say he would introduce a scheme for voluntary union membership as soon as possible . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , in the play , Puck the fairy is supposed to say he 'll put a girdle around the earth in forty minutes — ’ |
| 16 | Needless to say he might have a tendency to end up doing what he would n't want them doing amongst slurry and such like but . |
| 17 | The flier , smiling reassuringly at an old lady , roused by the excitement from her bed , said he would prefer a glass of water . |
| 18 | At one point during the campaign , he said he would appoint a peace envoy to Northern Ireland if elected a controversial idea which drew a sharp response from Ulster Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew . |
| 19 | Shackel became indignant and said he would fetch a magistrate and complain about the Chief Constable 's attitude , which he did . |
| 20 | He said he would make an announcement about his plans on Wednesday . |
| 21 | I rang Winston and he said he would make an enquiry at the Foreign Office . |
| 22 | Mr Churchill said he would welcome a change in the law to steer the market in favour of coal . |
| 23 | Crosby tried to land Porter on loan earlier in the season and the 26-year-old — transfer-listed this week — said he would welcome a return to his home-town club . |
| 24 | One of them said he faced a possible ban from International footie ( playing for France I assume , and any matches the scum have in Europe — nyuk , nyuk ) , the other said he would face a ban from the game — AS A WHOLE . |
| 25 | The health secretary , Kenneth Clarke , said he would examine a proposal to pay people to look after frail elderly relatives instead of putting them in homes . |
| 26 | Keating , who crushed the pro-monarchy conservative opposition in national polls last Saturday , said he would create a panel of eminent Australians to study how the country could become a republic by 2001 . |
| 27 | So Mr Burgreen , doing all that he could , said he would add a civilian to his internal review board . |
| 28 | He said he would like a plant or two of Gale with spleenwort leaves ( i.e. Comptonia peregriaa var. aspleniifolia ) and dried specimens of the male and female plants , having only seen the former . |
| 29 | He said he would seek a meeting with senior planning officers to establish if anything more is known about the company behind the proposal . |
| 30 | ALA housing chairman Pete Challis said he would seek an assurance the Government will renew the Rough Sleeper 's initiative , the scheme to provide 15,000 hostel bed spaces , when it expires next year . |