Example sentences of "[pron] said [pron] could not " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all very well for companies like Rentokil , or Guinness , which said it could not act this time round but was considering similar action at a later date , to compensate their shareholders . |
| 2 | Very clear skin responses to the pheromone were recorded — even in those who said they could not detect the odour . |
| 3 | Coun Dryden did not attend last night 's meeting but his views were echoed at by Labour colleague Coun Dave Ross , who said he could not support the cuts before leaving the meeting . |
| 4 | He was backed by Walton colleague Daphne Hall , who said she could not see how anyone could fail to support it , and felt it was better to have the Naze under a management scheme . |
| 5 | She said she could not and would not continue to deal with Mr Sloan . |
| 6 | When we said we could not recall the SoS intervening to revise county estimates of population growth downwards ( although he had just intervened to revise Gwynedd 's upwards ) we were told that of course Mr Hunt shares the counties ' desire for growth and expansion . |
| 7 | We said she could not murder anyone . |
| 8 | Diana had said she would look in to say hello to give them a morale boost , but when one of her staff saw the route she had to take to get there they said she could not possibly go . |
| 9 | Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made . |
| 10 | He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ . |
| 11 | He said he could not explain why the iceberg was moving west and not east ‘ as everyone had anticipated ’ . |
| 12 | Speaking on BBC TV 's Election Call programme , he said he could not provide ‘ an in-all-circumstances ’ undertaking on how his party would react , saying that he was being asked ‘ how I would play as a batsman the third ball in the fourth over after next . ’ |
| 13 | ( A few months later , president George Bush underlined the non-equivalence of ‘ women ’ and ‘ American citizens ’ : explaining why the US saw fit to invade Panama , he said he could not tolerate assaults on ‘ the wife of an American citizen ’ . |
| 14 | He said he could not return a verdict of unlawful killing because there was no evidence that the builders intended to kill the couple . |
| 15 | He said he could not release details of the amount of money involved as it was confidential information . |
| 16 | Darlington magistrates fined David Humphreys for a series of pollution offences , but he said he could not pay the fines and faced bankruptcy . |
| 17 | But he said he could not consider calls for an open sheriff 's inquiry , in spite of pleas by the islands ' MP , Jim Wallace , Shetland Islands Council , and the petitioners . |
| 18 | But he said he could not disclose the terms of the transaction , which became operational on 1 March . |
| 19 | Although he said he could not release any details about the inquiry 's scope , in general , if the CRE found there had been unlawful practices it would issue a ‘ non-discrimination notice ’ listing the changes to working methods a respondent must make . |
| 20 | Although he said he could not release any details about the inquiry 's scope , in general , if the CRE found there had been unlawful practices it would issue a ‘ non-discrimination notice ’ listing the changes to working methods a respondent must make . |
| 21 | He said he could not offer any explanation as to exactly what Mr McNeill meant by his remarks as that could prejudge his statements on Thursday . |