Example sentences of "[pers pn] said it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said it had done Eddie a power of good . |
| 2 | Thessy asked me what McIllvanney had wanted , but I said it had been nothing very much for I was too disgusted with the man to tell Thessy the truth . |
| 3 | My flower — the one that I remember best out of many — was gathered where I said it had been . |
| 4 | I said it had to come one day , did n't I ? ’ |
| 5 | She said it had got off to a slow start but then the true issues had been recognised . |
| 6 | She said it had prompted more real conversation between them than she had achieved in all their previous encounters . |
| 7 | She said it had taken her seven years to learn to play it , and the only problem was when there was a power cut . |
| 8 | Her parents did not believe her story but , when she said it had happened again , her father secretly observed her . |
| 9 | Bunny asked how the interview had gone and she said it had gone very well . |
| 10 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 11 | But she said it had been ‘ a delight ’ . |
| 12 | They said it had been captive but had escaped . ’ |
| 13 | And they said May which we thought was it a bit really but they said it had the the Spring wood but not the Summer wood on it . |
| 14 | He says we tried to persuade the Council to let us have it , but they said it had to be leased so now we have no where to go . |
| 15 | It said it had to advertise its contracts throughout Europe under new EC rules which come into force in 1993 . |
| 16 | It said it had been unable to establish with sufficient certainty which of the inconsistent statements made by Mr Clark was not true . |
| 17 | It said it had sold 38,000 NT developers ' kits to date . |
| 18 | It said it had requested the move ‘ pending clarification of the company 's financial position ’ . |
| 19 | It said it had its own , better , plans for the land and , in any case , there was already substantial spare capacity in the tanker refitting business . |
| 20 | It said it had contacted Greece and Kenya . |
| 21 | Oh it said in the , in the book when I read about it , it said it had green flowers , you say is that green flowers |
| 22 | He said it had been vital to keep Operation Beehive secret from the Soviets and the Yugoslavs , so many people within V Corps had not known about it . |
| 23 | He said it had to be seen in the context of the UK 's £25billion a year deficit on trade in manufactured goods , a 22 per cent fall in enrolment for engineering courses since 1985 and the forecast decrease in the number of 16- to 24-year-olds by the mid-1990's . |
| 24 | He said it had to be seen in the context of the UK 's £25billion a year deficit on trade in manufactured goods , a 22 per cent fall in enrolment for engineering courses since 1985 and the forecast decrease in the number of 16- to 24-year-olds by the mid-1990's . |
| 25 | But he was wrong when he said it had no effect on him . |
| 26 | He would n't go into details over the phone but he said it had something to do with Bernard . |
| 27 | Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up . |
| 28 | He said it had taken years . |
| 29 | He said it had smelt like a bar parlour . |
| 30 | He said it had petered out because Eliot did not want him to go any further and did not have a plan to use the information already gathered . |