Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] say [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List allocates him a reign of three years , with one variant reading of two , but Bede also says that Caedwalla reigned for two years before his abdication in 688 ( HE IV , 12 : V , 7 ) ( see also above , p. 51 ) . |
| 2 | Scott later said that Ellice was a ‘ worthy vain old busy-body … who had been trying to make himself look clever in the tea room by finding mare's-nests in the form of non-existent errors in the arrangement of my plans ’ . |
| 3 | Latham later said that Norman and Palmer were told that ‘ if the WWF wanted the cooperation of the timber trade that phrase would have to be removed ’ . |
| 4 | The judge also said that Brenda had no protection from the 1906 Dog Act which allows the police to destroy or sell a dog after seven days . |
| 5 | Chen also said that Taiwan would spend US$5,000 million on weapons programmes during the next fiscal year beginning in July . |
| 6 | ‘ But Jake then said that Captain Hook got away . |
| 7 | Eddie Gilfoyle allegedly said that mum-to-be Paula was leaving him but his workmates were still able to speak to her at home and see her in the area . |
| 8 | Data General also says that SDLC and X25 can now share the same synchronous controller , saving users the expense of buying multiple controllers for wide area communications — again the company claims to be the only Unix-based systems vendor to offer the capability . |
| 9 | So I was not surprised when he rang me a few weeks later to say that Dorothy was in hospital . |
| 10 | Malcolm Muggeridge later said that Burgess ‘ gave me a feeling of being morally afflicted in some way ’ , and described him as the ‘ sick toast of a sick society ’ . |
| 11 | Scarlet turned away uneasily at the mention of upbringing : Brian 's first wife had telephoned only a few weeks before to say that Brian 's son was causing her hair to turn grey and fall out . |
| 12 | Liza had written some weeks ago to say that John had been sent , at only a few hours ' notice , on a course . |
| 13 | Pointy-Beard simply said that Sunil wanted to see me when he 'd finished eating and we were going to meet him at Shazam 's and did I know it . |
| 14 | The PCA also says that Mr Eynon ’ did not fully undertake his responsibilities ’ in giving Seargeant Tony Long , the officer investigating the case , adequate support staff . |
| 15 | Only one person remarkably said that Oxford United would win by one goal to nil , I think loads of people go for the three ones or the four ones or things like that . |
| 16 | The one the Federation produced is very good , but a lot of reading in it , so , we wanted one we could hand out to people and the the intention is that we , we go on the market next week Thursday and Friday to hand out that leaflet , also to advertise the meeting on the tenth , erm , so that really is as far , and obviously the meetings that , that Lilly just said that Kathy 's coming , that would be an opportunity to erm you know , discuss it further with her . |
| 17 | Adam also says that Swegen destroyed idolatrous rites , commanded the Norwegians to receive Christianity , and appointed a bishop who had come from England to teach in Skåne . |
| 18 | He also points out the song 's crucial omission , astonishing in a work of the protest movement : Dylan never says that Zantzinger is white and Hattie Carroll black , and forces the listener to assume that she was because of everything we are told about her : her name , that she had ten children , her position as a maid who ‘ did n't even talk to the people at the table ’ and , more tendentiously , because of what was done to her and the mild punishment meted out to her murderer who ‘ at 24 years/Owns a tobacco farm of 600 acres ’ . |
| 19 | People just said that Elsie was the woman who fell into the river and drowned . |
| 20 | Grove also said that Pentium was on schedule to be introduced at the end of March and that it will be ‘ aggressively ’ priced . |
| 21 | Li Peng also said that China supplied arms to Nepal for its defence . |
| 22 | Pedro de Castro Van Dúnem " Loy " ( who had earlier met Shevardnadze ) , when Baker reportedly said that Angola 's moves towards multiparty democracy had removed the last obstacle to US endorsement of a peace settlement . |
| 23 | Mrs Thatcher once said that Northern Ireland was as British as Finchley , but the actions of her Government and her successor 's have consistently belied that . |
| 24 | SECRETARIES OF STATE often say that Northern Ireland receives a ‘ subvention ’ from the United Kingdom Exchequer . |
| 25 | Walter Legge once said that Karajan was not interested in politics , except of the musical variety , of which he was to become a consummate master . |
| 26 | The report also says that Intel is to release a revision of its Indeo video compression technology , which is claimed to increase compression ratios fivefold over the current version ( enabling one minute of video to be compressed into 1Mb of data ) . |
| 27 | The official also said that Britain had failed to account for its decision to move the colony 's main naval base out of the centre of Hong Kong , a move which he believed would have serious repercussions for the stationing of the Chinese military in the territory after the 1997 transfer of power . |
| 28 | Intergraph and Microsoft also said that Intergraph is also converting its full range of mechanical , engineering , mapping and geographical information system applications for Windows NT . |
| 29 | The statement also said that UNITA would publish its election manifesto before May . |
| 30 | The statement also said that Libya would expel anyone proved to be involved in such acts and that " Libya complies with the British demands pertaining to her previous relations with the IRA [ Irish Republican Army ] " . |