Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun prp] [conj] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galileo did the [ free fall ] experiment in Pisa and said they [ falling objects ] reach a speed limit . |
| 2 | He approached me in the Limes Club in Sheffield and said if I signed with him , he would fill my book and raise my fee — a promise which he fulfilled . |
| 3 | Will the Minister commit himself and the Government to the development of the coal industry in Scotland and say more about the Government 's intentions for Monktonhall , lest Yorkshire face the same problems as Scotland , as the Bishop of Durham made clear this weekend ? |
| 4 | Austrian television quoted a witness in Timisoara as saying he had seen lorries carrying away ‘ cubic metres of bodies ’ . |
| 5 | Granada has a £63million stake in BSB and said there had been several approaches for Alan Bond 's major stake in the venture . |
| 6 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 7 | However the report by the trust — Buildings at Risk — highlights the threats to 11 prime examples of Thomson 's work in Glasgow and says the situation is an ‘ embarrassment which we can no longer ignore ’ . |
| 8 | The coach was an Embassy staffer in Rome and said that it was twice as good having helpers who were n't parents . |
| 9 | A communiqué issued by the HCS on Feb. 5 referred obliquely to " excesses that reportedly occurred " during the army 's intervention in Batna and said that measures would be taken to avoid their repetition by the security forces . |
| 10 | Denmark plans a second referendum in May and says it will quit the EC if its citizens vote ‘ No ’ again . |
| 11 | Itar-Tass news agency later quoted the defence ministry in Moscow as saying the report was groundless . |
| 12 | He admitted that some people in Hong Kong had been alarmed by reports of carnage in Peking but said this was only because they ‘ misunderstood ’ or had been misled by the ‘ false reporting and even rumour of some news media ’ . |
| 13 | On Dec. 26 the Iraqi News Agency ( INA ) quoted a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) spokesman in Baghdad as saying that " the justifications for maintaining economic sanctions against Iraq no longer existed " . |
| 14 | The Chicheley-Smythes have bought an absolutely super villa in Sardinia and say we could rent it if we 'd like to . |
| 15 | But once I asked him why he was in prison , and he muttered about his days at Le Coq d'Or tavern in Paris and said he was a prisoner because he could ‘ count the days ’ . ’ |
| 16 | Microsoft Corp has been banging the drum for its forthcoming Windows New Technology operating system in Europe and says it has won ‘ broad support ’ for it from ICL Plc , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG . |
| 17 | ‘ He came across this seed in Cumbria and said : ‘ I wonder if we ought to invest in a bit ? ’ . |
| 18 | Tass also quoted the Georgian embassy in Moscow as saying the plane was an Il-29 of the Confederation of Highland Nations , which groups small ethnic groups in the Caucasus and supports Abkhazia in the conflict . |
| 19 | He warned his players to expect a hostile reception in England and said : ‘ We came mentally prepared for a hard time and determined to give our answer out there on the field . |
| 20 | In other words , you could n't stand for office in Harlow and say for instance erm if erm if we er win the election we 're gon na stop the sale of council houses . |
| 21 | The former Metrologie unit was Santa Cruz Operation Inc 's first partner in Europe and says that the relationship will continue . |