Example sentences of "[noun] saying that [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 2 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 3 | The MNR responded with a statement issued in Nairobi saying that it had accepted the mediators ' invitation to direct talks but that Chissano was delaying " to extend his time in power " . |
| 4 | You quoted David Griffiths saying that he had told the RAF Benevolent Fund that we would be ‘ pretty disappointed if they failed to raise one million pounds from the Marathon ’ . |
| 5 | Sir Gregory had a painful discussion with his wife over how they should react to Pascoe 's snub , in which Lady Roscarrock gave vent to her outrage saying that they had every right to keep both Tristram and Jennifer in custody indefinitely ; but Sir Gregory wanted the whole business settled and finished with , so after a lengthy wrangle he swallowed the family pride and went over to Hill House . |
| 6 | Ten days later he wrote to his sister saying that he had been asked to write an essay about Baldwin , but that he had refused , for he wished neither to lie nor to publish the truth , which he then proceeded to outline : |
| 7 | Newton wrote to Locke saying that he had ‘ received a visit from a certain Divine of monstrous and Toad-like appearance . |
| 8 | All three write that he went on the pilgrimage in 822 , al-Makrizi saying that he had gone by way of Damascus , Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi possibly implying that he went from Jerusalem since they write that he " returned " there after the pilgrimage : the two versions are not , of course , mutually exclusive in any case , and the latter two authors may well mean no more than that he returned [ from the pilgrimage ] to Jerusalem . |
| 9 | His firm sent him for a month to another part of the country , and at first he telephoned home every night ; but three weeks later she got a letter saying that he had met another woman and was planning to marry her as soon as possible . |
| 10 | After the judgment , Price Waterhouse issued a statement saying that it had acted in good faith according to its understanding of the conflict of interest rules at the time . |
| 11 | It is worth remembering that , when Indira asked Rajiv to go into politics after his elder brother 's death in 1980 , he put out a statement saying that he had no such intention . |
| 12 | Mr Braithwaite wrote to Douglas saying that he had n't been contacted since February . |
| 13 | David was in a state at that time saying that he had signed these things years ago and wanted to get out . |
| 14 | It is the equivalent of a British government refusing to appear for questions in the House saying that it had been elected and therefore did not need to defend its decisions before parliament . |