Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Lennis sent for me and said that Mr. Andrew was feeling run down , and had gone for a cruise in one of the ships , the Emily T. I kept expecting a letter or a postcard from him , but nothing came . |
| 2 | Arrange a number of children in a line behind you and say that you are going to play a game of ‘ follow the leader ’ . |
| 3 | I told the cleaning ladies and they came up and said , twiddled around with it and said that they could n't work out what was wrong and they were gon na get some engineers in or something , engineers ? |
| 4 | The ‘ I ’ at one and the same time transcends the body ( so that for instance we talk of our bodies as something separate from ourselves and say that we ‘ have ’ them rather than ‘ are ’ them ) and is immanent or present in the body . |
| 5 | She asked if I had heard from you and said that she wished to read the novel you were writing , and I 'm afraid I said I thought you were writing it . |
| 6 | I think I speak for everybody and say that we wish you well in this project . |
| 7 | We 've often spoken about her and said that something has got to happen . |
| 8 | He just came to me and said that he was unhappy and I said OK . |
| 9 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 10 | We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further . |
| 11 | After a cursory examination , he turned to me and said that we must get the boy to hospital quickly . |
| 12 | However , the er holder came to me and said that they , he would like to invest a considerable sum in new equipment , refrigerators blah blah blah . |
| 13 | Er , can I say that it 's been a great pleasure coming er , to you and to say that erm that there 's far more to say , of course , about Canberra er , but I hope that that taster will help you to try and appreciate what went on there . |
| 14 | The Emperor spoke to him and said that as long as he did not speak to anyone in that underground place , nothing would happen to him . |
| 15 | He says I 'd better go and check the money so he said erm but what he could n't understand was they wrote to him and said that they have n't paid the cheques but they did n't say anything about freezing his account ! |
| 16 | Afterwards , she ventured to go up to him and say that she was my sister : to which he replied kindly — ; ‘ I can see that you are ’ . |
| 17 | Emboldened by this , he had gone straight up to her and said that he had heard she had called him and wanted him . |
| 18 | I have never eaten brawn — no doubt I should do so — so can not comment on it except to say that it is made from the pig 's head which is simmered with herbs and spices ; the resulting meat is set in the naturally produced aspic . |
| 19 | We went down to The Marquee the following morning and I think Ralph came up to us and said that we could have the money for all the gigs , including the Brummel Club , but after that we were finished . |
| 20 | If Tipton Scouts have written to us and said that under the grant that we 're trying to give tonight , towards . |
| 21 | She looked at me and said that when I walked in this morning . |