Example sentences of "[verb] say [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if she says why we were not here or say say she tells you she called on Saturday and we were out just say to her Raymond was drinking stout ! |
| 2 | Syria has reinforced its troops facing the Christian enclave where Gen Aoun is entrenched , but has said it plans no immediate attack . |
| 3 | And , the Sun newspaper has said it intends to fight any High Court action brought by the Queen over the advanced publication of her Christmas broadcast . |
| 4 | BAe has made it clear it did not consider the bid by Mr Hooke as a serious contender and has said it regards the Raytheon offer as best for the company , shareholders and employees . |
| 5 | Now Ayrshire and Arran Health Board has said it has found a place for Ian in Larbert . |
| 6 | The UN has said it has strong evidence Iraq is hiding about 100 of the Scud missiles of the type it fired at Israel and Saudi Arabia in the Gulf war , but Iraq denies it . |
| 7 | South Africa has said it expects the UN to reduce its 4,000-strong military presence once the poll is over and a Constituent Assembly has been elected to draft a new constitution . |
| 8 | The company is controlled by a US group that is up for sale and has said it wants to sell AMI . |
| 9 | The Government has said it wants to cut the number of smokers from 30 to 20% of the population by the year 2,000 . |
| 10 | Tricia Howard , Mr. Ashdown 's former lover , has said she deplores the press coverage of the affair . |
| 11 | But she has said she does not believe she will be crowned . |
| 12 | And , in an oblique attack on the partiality of judges , she has said she wants a commission to review appointments to the higher levels of the judiciary . |
| 13 | Answer : Levi has said he plays professionally only so that he can indulge his other interests . |
| 14 | Greenaway has said he hates the idea of a shot in a film being only a preposition , linking what went before and after — but what writer would think of despising a part of speech for performing its indispensible task ? |
| 15 | Repeatedly he has said he favours internationally supervised elections , and that his country wishes to be non-aligned . |
| 16 | Germany pulled out of the joint project in July , but finance minister Theo Waigel has said he favours a scaled-down version of the plane costing £36 million to avoid job losses in times of recession . |
| 17 | In terms of foreign investment in US carriers , the transportation secretary , Federico Pena , has said he favours the current 25 per cent limit on voting stock owned by foreign investors and the 49 per cent limit on their overall investment . |
| 18 | David Abell has said he does not know who is behind Sterling . |
| 19 | Scotland 's senior law officer , Lord Fraser has said he does not intend ‘ at present ’ to seek the extradition of Abu Talb from Sweden . |
| 20 | He has said he does not care what it costs him , he is standing on a matter of principle . |
| 21 | Home Secretary , Kenneth Baker has said he does not now believe it would be right to continue with the proposed closures because of the entirely unacceptable numbers of prisoners held in police cells . |
| 22 | Councillor Waugh has said he does not want council money spent to benefit private-sector operators under the Government 's privatisation plans . |
| 23 | Labour seems assured , for the moment , of the support of one religious party , the ultra-orthodox Agudat Israel , and Mr Peres has said he hopes to form a majority government as quickly as possible . |
| 24 | According to Straus , Mandela has said he has no plans to write anything — ‘ the only book he had anything to do with was ours ’ . |
| 25 | EC commissioner Frans Andriessen , the EC 's chief negotiator , has said he has no immediate plans to meet US negotiators but developments could come today after a meeting of EC foreign ministers in Brussels . |
| 26 | However , Tory leader Coun Lawrie Wild has said he expects Coun Woodhead to do the ‘ honourable thing ’ . |
| 27 | Talks between the two communities were due to begin next month but Mr Clerides has said he intends to seek a postponement . |
| 28 | Bearing in mind that Mr Steel probably on his own admission has said he 's been a bit late out of the starting blocks in order to make his bid for a review of the allocations , er I mean how do you feel in response to that ? |
| 29 | The Prince of Wales has said he wishes to see more blacks in the Brigade of Guards . |
| 30 | Most MPs see the cross-party support for the new Speaker as an omen of a kinder , gentler House , a suitable legislature for the kind of country , ‘ at ease with itself ’ , that John Major has said he wishes to create . |