Example sentences of "[noun sg] when [pers pn] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | put the contrary view in the form of a dilemma when he said : ‘ Either they were performing this public duty in giving the protection asked for , in which case I think they can not charge , or , which no one suggests , they were at the request of an individual doing something which it was not their duty to do , in which case it seems to me both public policy and section 10 of the County Police Act 1839 , make the contract illegal and void . ’ |
| 2 | We 've got that on tape when you said oh heavens ! |
| 3 | I have no doubt wha did I not tell you about the fact that I hit the roof when he said that she has said that when he was twenty one , she was going to buy him a Vauxhall Chevette . |
| 4 | Ben also confirmed the view expressed at the beginning of this piece when he said , quite unprompted , that Roald Dahl 's stories , like no other writer 's , spoke directly to him . |
| 5 | Perhaps the Austria Vienna spokesman , Peter Mueller , had this in mind when he said yesterday : ‘ Compared with previous UEFA decisions in similar cases , Ajax 's punishment is very harsh . ’ |
| 6 | For example , we have the form of expression ‘ when I said ‘ Napoleon was crowned in 1804 ’ I meant the man who won the battle of Austerlitz' and we are inclined to interpret the use of the past tense ‘ meant ’ as meaning that the idea of Napoleon having won the battle of Austerlitz must have been present in the speaker 's mind when he said that Napoleon was crowned in 1804 . |
| 7 | Perhaps this attitude of ‘ cooling it ’ , ‘ turning off ’ , ‘ keeping his head down ’ , ‘ disengaging ’ on the part of the failing student is a special case of what Roy Cox ( 1967 ) had in mind when he said : ‘ It is clear that where students are assessed in a way which is not seen to be relevant to what they are aiming at they will tend to distort and degrade the assessment so that it does not become a source of esteem . ’ |
| 8 | It is not clear what Croom-Johnson J. had in mind when he said that there was a requirement of ‘ hostile intent , ’ and the observation has been doubted and explained subsequently . |
| 9 | This is the sort of procedure that Wimsatt had in mind when he said ( 1958 : 149 ) that ‘ poetry is that type of verbal structure where truth of reference or correspondence reaches a maximum degree of fusion with truth of coherence — or where external and internal relation are intimately mutual reflections ’ . |
| 10 | Curbishley 's managerial partner , Steve Gritt , summed up the new feeling within the club when he said : ‘ After Saturday we 'll be a real club again . |
| 11 | The cup was halfway to her mouth when she said , ‘ We wo n't be seeing the New Year in then ? ’ |
| 12 | Teng asked , lifting his chin slightly to indicate the man plodding along in front of them , but meaning the Overseer when he said ‘ he ’ . |
| 13 | in that case and in particular the passage when he said , at p. 593 : ‘ I think that the question is , where do the operations take place from which the profits in substance arise ? ’ |
| 14 | It said 56 per cent of those asked believed the president had misled the public during last year 's election campaign when he said he would not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for his programmes . |
| 15 | Braque himself has best described his new method of work when he said , ‘ the fragmentation ( of objects ) enabled me to establish space and movement within space , and I was unable to introduce the object until I had created the space . ’ |
| 16 | I can still hear your laughter when I said , ‘ Who 's Patricia ? ’ and still do n't know why it was so funny but , God , you looked fine . |
| 17 | ‘ In my last year at school another teacher roared with laughter when I said I wanted to be a professional footballer . |
| 18 | Mr Ashton provoked laughter when he said he had watched the programme because it was set in his constituency , and he had been to school with the father of Sean Bean , one of the stars . |
| 19 | Fokine 's advice to those wishing to create the romantic style of dance was much as fur demi-caractère when he said : ‘ The choreographer should base his design on classical technique from the feet to the waist , but above that the dancer 's head , body and arms must be free to express the moods , emotions and actions of the character in the story or theme to be communicated . ’ |
| 20 | She looked right at O and Boy when she said this and it was as if she was trying to scare them in particular , even as if she was trying to frighten them away from each other , as if she was saying , to them , and to all of us , this is what you have to go through , right ? |
| 21 | LAST week on a bus I saw a young mother spank her little boy when he said the F-word . |
| 22 | The Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade , Li Lanqing , allayed fears of a clampdown on economic reform when he said that China would continue to develop stock markets despite the Shenzhen riot . |
| 23 | Uncle Geordie used to laugh and tell me not to be a fearedy-gowk when I said Skipper was trying to bite me . |
| 24 | In their famous study of kinship in Bethnal Green , Young and Willmott made this very point when they said , in their introduction , |
| 25 | The right hon. Member for Henley made a powerful point when he said that all we were doing was trying to introduce an envy tax . |
| 26 | My hon. Friend the Member for Welwyn Hatfield may have had a point when he said — it was a tough line to take — that all admissions into this country should be suspended until we have caught up , and then we could reduce the waiting period to six weeks . |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman seemed to miss an important point when he said that head teachers were worried . |
| 28 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd made a more important and realistic point when he said Britain should be able to work very well with Mr Clinton . |
| 29 | And a glint came to his eye when he said he would be carrying on with his pastoral work for many years to come . |
| 30 | Paul succinctly voiced the views of the group when he said : |