Example sentences of "[coord] say [that] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 2 | Peter and say that if you do n't do this you 're going to lose that , because that would n't be being |
| 3 | Jo 's lesbianism is also important to the way she dresses ; she does n't want to look what she calls ‘ too femme ’ , and says that when she wears a skirt she gets a lot more hassle from men . |
| 4 | Brutus compares Caesar to a snake and says that as it is bright day which brings forth the adder it will be Caesar 's crowning that would bring out his bad personality . |
| 5 | In the end I agreed to do this but I remember leaving the meeting literally , I am afraid , in tears and saying that although I would obey the majority I would resign from the Government afterwards as quietly as I could because I should have failed to uphold an almost lifelong conviction … |
| 6 | Is it not time that the Government stood up and were counted by telling the Turkish Government to remove their troops from occupied Cyprus and saying that if they do not do so the British Government will veto any attempt by Turkey to join the EC ? |
| 7 | When the man eventually got home that day he told the assembled villagers of our meeting , and my warning , and said that after he had watched me go round a bend in the road a hundred yards away he started to light the cigarette I had given him . |
| 8 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 9 | Martin Hyman of British Aerospace got five enquiries and said that though he could have wished for more , those that he had talked to had , he felt , benefited considerably . |
| 10 | She looked at me and said that when I walked in this morning . |
| 11 | So then I got back on to Gwyllam and said that if we provided our own caravan , would you someone there be willing to do the from site to site and he said that would n't be a problem . |
| 12 | Her husband then became extremely emotional and said that if she did not sign , the whole company would go bankrupt and their son John would lose his home as well . |
| 13 | A Belgian cycling union official confirmed that an unnamed rider had tested positive and said that if it were Yates , he would receive a 10-minute penalty that would lose him the race . |
| 14 | He made notes and said that if he had a key to the house he 'd be able to plan what was needed in a shorter time . |
| 15 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |
| 16 | The man came back to the telephone and said that if I was Linford Christie I was to go in and see them . |
| 17 | Anyway , she was very tired and said that if I did n't tell her she was going to go to sleep . |
| 18 | He was n't put off and said that if I would please stay he would dance every dance with me . |
| 19 | It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once ! |
| 20 | But saying that if you want a decent wage in here you have to work a lot of overtime . |
| 21 | She agreed , but said that before he began work with Brian Harley — after the Safari circuit but before the European Tour began — he had gone off for several days ’ training . |