Example sentences of "[pron] said that [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Earlier I said that on the whole our food was not bad : salads , fruits and nuts were plentiful but I had taken on my parent 's tastes .
2 Er Foster and Allen are here and when I said that at the beginning of the programme it started a flurry of phone calls as to where they were .
3 The next point that upset him was that I said that unlike the American President , the Prime Minister was relieved of a great deal of official ceremonial by the Queen and Prince Philip .
4 She said that on the morning of September 18 her husband got up about 6.30am .
5 She said that in the Southern General alone , £80,000 is being spent on new cookers which should guarantee vegetables that areal dente .
6 You said that about the men who went to her house to search .
7 And you said that by the end of next week you will you will have done those and know whether you want them and whether the companies probably yes ?
8 You said that in the nature of things you 've always needed the money almost as of yesterday .
9 You said that like a little girl caught telling lies .
10 You said that like a spoiled little girl , señorita , and not like an icy journalist at all . ’
11 And in fact er we said that at the time the white paper was published .
12 They said that in a political situation , if you had one side you could call it the thesis , say capitalism was the thesis and communism was the other side and that was the antithesis and that these two would one another and it was only when they came together and got their good points both of them adopted , that one was really going to get a satisfactory solution .
13 They had tried to head these off , but because they could slip into the lanes and wynds of the town , this had proved difficult , Ramsay interrupted to demand whether one of these fugitives had been a tall man in shirt and breeches ; but they said that in the darkness they could not tell .
14 It said that during the quarter it greatly improved product delivery time to its resellers , and recorded the highest volume quarter in its history .
15 It said that as a result of these investigations the committee was satisfied that there was no evidence of Londonderry Corporation being guilty of discrimination .
16 Colt had heard it said that after the war the country 's debt was 80 billion dollars .
17 It said that in the run-up to an election , it would comment on planning opportunities based on pronouncements by political parties .
18 Perhaps he said that for the benefit of Signor fragolli , so I just said , ‘ OK . ’
19 He brings with him his radio and prepares for — his — match with Lierse listening to BBC hoping for Leeds goals … and after the Wembley match he went straigth to Batty for changing shirts — i think he said that for the couple of last minutes that was the main thing — not that he had made a great goal or Norway getting a draw .
20 He said that despite a substantial grant from Lloyds Bank , the event lost £2,000 .
21 He said that despite the Rotary Club being made up mainly of shopkeepers and small businessmen , they had been ‘ very helpful ’ in putting them in touch with Rotary contacts in London .
22 He said that despite the delay Devonport was still confident that , if ‘ logic , common sense and value for money prevail ’ , it would be chosen as the site for the nuclear refitting work .
23 He said that as a boy at school he had such experiences and wondered whether they were like Michael 's .
24 Under cross-examination from Alan Gore , a barrister representing one of the dead drivers , he said that as a result one of the options had been amended .
25 He said that as the world 's biggest gold producer , the Soviet Union might consider using its gold stocks to guarantee the value of the rouble and of Soviet government bonds .
26 He said that as an actor he had to respond to stories which he found so funny .
27 He said that with a straight face
28 I asked him for more but he said that with the family allowance we had the same .
29 He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off !
30 He said that on the issue of whether parents in such circumstances could claim damages , he had reached a different conclusion from Lord Prosser .
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