Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] say [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of this week a girl phoned up and said that erm the chap he normally deals with is away |
| 2 | Bilal came down and said that Tom would be next , which was , of course , meaningless . |
| 3 | Half-way through one driver came in and said that the Minister for Human Resources had spent half an hour longer than he had agreed . ’ |
| 4 | That waitress just came over and said that we were in love . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ One farmer came back and said that employing 300 Kenyans cost one-fifth as much as weedkiller , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ She came back and said that the people had arrived for my early morning meeting . |
| 7 | It used the allocation , came back and said that its original estimate was entirely wrong and it required an extra £48 million — the original estimate was £48 million out . |
| 8 | The ‘ sheriff ’ came out and said that Customs wanted us to fly to Darwin for clearance , but we begged for mercy and he let us stay and gave us a ride to a lodge in the police wagon . |
| 9 | But anyway I flared up and said that sort of remark was what we were supposed to be fighting the war about and I went for him . |
| 10 | Erm then er I introduced somebody on the seventeenth for this teaching post , for the sewing club which Noel unofficially told me and Donald also rang up and said that we were going to get the money so I I 've already employed somebody , I have n't got the letter yet . |
| 11 | and she rang up and said that she wanted to go and would I go with her ? |
| 12 | He went further and said that the prosecution bore that burden whenever the issue of prejudice through delay was raised . |
| 13 | The courts went further and said that natural justice itself was not applicable . |
| 14 | My mum wrote back and said that she did n't have that kind of money . |
| 15 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 16 | Yet he then stood up and said that he would be making a statement in the valleys tomorrow . |
| 17 | Also , I 'd like to come over all clichéd now and say that it seems that you do get what you pay for , and while the Hohner is a very capable bass I would personally bypass this mid-price level and put the money to something else . |