Example sentences of "[pers pn] said that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am in everyone 's bad books because I said that it was only a shop . |
| 2 | I said that it was , and they were welcome to come in . |
| 3 | So , I gave you two examples and I said that it was often |
| 4 | I said that it was all right , because I 'm not a Catholic either but if you wanted to talk , I was willing to listen . |
| 5 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 6 | And I said the Leeds have told her I said that it was you know something might come this afternoon . |
| 7 | One of the handful of paid staff , a young woman of about seventeen , was full of energy and enthusiasm , but she said that it was very difficult to keep enough volunteers to teach . |
| 8 | She said that it was a time for prayer and especially for prayers of protection against evil of any kind and , sending for her holy book , quoted me the following passage : |
| 9 | " When the Madam gave me the keys and deeds of this house in Easter week , 1916 , she said that it was mine , that she had no further use for it . |
| 10 | She said that it was partly because of drink — that all the Stavangers drank , and that her father knew he was drinking too much , but that he never drank at sea . |
| 11 | I asked if it was foreign and she said that it was . ’ |
| 12 | She said that it was increasingly important that people had easy access to information . |
| 13 | And she was saying about the , she said that it was right wa , what was , it was quite bad in the car cos you right , like laughing , joking things like that . |
| 14 | So as soon as she said that it was in use Monday Wednesday I sort of |
| 15 | No , no , you said that it was , you said that because it was not always in there maybe because the socket 's too shallow |
| 16 | You said that it was important because of the national economy . |
| 17 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 18 | I understood it in fact from what you said that it was a decision of the sub-committee . |
| 19 | You said that it were n't on anyway . |
| 20 | In Chapter 1 we said that it was the job of a financial system to channel funds from surplus to deficit sectors . |
| 21 | We said that it was a first step , not the last word . |
| 22 | They said that it was in everyone 's interest that he got caught . |
| 23 | They said that it was of himself and that the parcel contained a gun which had been taken to pieces so that he could carry it inconspicuously . |
| 24 | But they said that it was a different matter over in the west , around Appleby way , where they generally paid more money but worked you very hard and gave you little meat . |
| 25 | They said that it was impossible to abandon the 20 per cent . |
| 26 | It said that it was an impossible system , inside which able teachers had become imprisoned — a system that thwarted those who genuinely care about pupils and education . |
| 27 | It said that it was difficult to use insurance mechanisms to cut car crime , but two years on , it is now using insurance premiums formidably well . |
| 28 | But he said that it was too early to make firm forecasts about demand . |
| 29 | But he said that it was too early to make firm forecasts about demand . |
| 30 | He told me about Piero della Francesca 's mysterious Flagellation in the Ducal palace in Urbino , and he said that it was ‘ probably the greatest small picture in the world ’ , a line which I was able to use in a novel set in Tuscany . |