Example sentences of "said he [modal v] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The flier , smiling reassuringly at an old lady , roused by the excitement from her bed , said he would prefer a glass of water . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Shackel became indignant and said he would fetch a magistrate and complain about the Chief Constable 's attitude , which he did . |
4 | He said he would make an announcement about his plans on Wednesday . |
5 | I rang Winston and he said he would make an enquiry at the Foreign Office . |
6 | Mr Churchill said he would welcome a change in the law to steer the market in favour of coal . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | So Mr Burgreen , doing all that he could , said he would add a civilian to his internal review board . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | He said he would seek a meeting with senior planning officers to establish if anything more is known about the company behind the proposal . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | David said he would contact a solicitor to find out what his position was with regard to access to his children . |
16 | Coun. Peter Jones ( C ) , a member of the policy and resources committee , said he would propose an amendment to make things easier for the disabled . |
17 | ITALY 's prime minister , Giuliano Amato , yesterday said he would call a vote of confidence as at least 26 more people were arrested in a corruption scandal that has forced a cabinet reshuffle . |
18 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
19 | Although the British turf season is nearing an end , Piggott said he will fulfil a contract to ride in Hong Kong in February . |
20 | The patient said he could feel a surge of energy run through his body ‘ like a tingling sensation ’ . |
21 | I thought that would be that , but they said he could have a vote , and he loves to go . |
22 | I said he should have a bit of a lie-in ; he had another bad night again . |
23 | ‘ He said he 'd stuff a mattress with it ! ’ whispered Gabriel hoarsely . |
24 | Carver said he 'd love a cup and carefully chose a stool to perch on well away from the chairs round the table . |
25 | but they 'd got some people coming and were very relieved when he said he 'd get a minicab to Reading . |
26 | Bob said he 'd have a chairman , yes , to er , pull the whole thing together . |
27 | still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee . |
28 | John Mackay said he 'd draft a leaflet , and I 've just done one myself , knowing how busy John is , and feeling also a sense of urgency about this , that we need to get ourselves better known . |
29 | Rozanov said he must have a pee . |