Example sentences of "[pers pn] had say [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | District councillor S. Carmedy immediately sprang to his feet and proclaimed that what I had said was untrue . |
| 2 | When Miss Temple received a letter from Dr Lloyd , agreeing that what I had said was true , she told the whole school that I had been wrongly accused and was not a liar . |
| 3 | She seems a bit spiteful and not very bright but what she had to say was factual . ’ |
| 4 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 5 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 6 | The former economics professor conceded that his plan to replace six indirect taxes with a 15 per cent goods and services tax ( GST ) , which he had said was essential to make Australia competitive , had been unpopular . |
| 7 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |
| 8 | She soon realised that what he had said was true : taste and style were inborn . |
| 9 | She remembered Havvie 's last words when he had left her that afternoon , and knew that what he had said was true . |
| 10 | She thought that what he had said was likely to be either partially or totally untrue , but it was not her concern . |