Example sentences of "to say [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rang to say I had arrived and a car came from Fulmer to meet me . |
| 2 | On the Green that night I was ready to say I had backed a loser , and to be graceful in defeat , a gentleman to the end . |
| 3 | I promptly forgot about the audition , considering it a waste of time , so was astounded when John phoned four days later to say I had passed the audition and would be hearing from Les Cox when he 'd decided which show I 'd be on . |
| 4 | Then , a few days after I got back from Oxford , I got a telegram to say I had a scholarship . |
| 5 | I hated to disappoint her , but I had to say I had n't . |
| 6 | It sounds crazy to say I had n't noticed it before , as we must have driven by ten or a dozen times , but you really do n't notice that much when you 're trying to keep your balance and play at the same time . |
| 7 | I think it was fair to say I had his attention , though the fountain pen he was strangling would never be the same again . |
| 8 | ‘ Next thing I knew was the letter to say I had been fined £720 . |
| 9 | Erm I wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turning I think was the answer but there was no reason to say I had problems finding you or I was held up I 'm sorry for that or , or anything , there was no , there was no actual acknowledgement or reason for being late . |
| 10 | Plans were at an advanced stage when Hamnett , having vacillated for some time , phoned the BFC to say she had decided in favour of Paris after all . |
| 11 | She phoned me in my room to say she had slipped in the bath and badly bruised her face . |
| 12 | Six months before her husband died in April 1803 , she had a letter from Coutts her bankers to say she had outstanding bills for £700 but her current account balance stood at 12s 11d . |
| 13 | That I did n't tell Richard , was partly for Sophie 's sake — to say she had become interested in politics would have been stretching his credulity too far — but also for my own . |
| 14 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
| 15 | The ex-chauffeur , who ferried bosses from site to site , told how panic broke out when a woman phoned Balfour 's head office to say she had found the blueprint on a rush-hour Jubilee Line train . |
| 16 | In those twenty minutes , Luke had told him that he had found part-time employment at the Old Rectory , Anna had told him that his mother had found employment at a Windsor gift shop , and his mother-in-law , Laura , had telephoned to say she had landed three lines in a television commercial for an Irish stout , dressed as a pearly queen . |
| 17 | Duncan did n't feel the need to say she had also been naked . |
| 18 | In addition to explaining she was in Australia on business , Ashley had meant to say she had not broken the news , that Simon had guessed — but the moment seemed to have gone . |
| 19 | However she phone a Worcester radio station this afternoon to say she had arrived by plane and she was in London consulting legal advisors . |
| 20 | A reader called to say she had a postcard dated 1910 which showed the fire with a notice saying : ‘ This fire has n't been out for over 200 years . ’ |
| 21 | I says you 've just wasted it , er tried to say she had n't had it like , yeah I I 'm not in turn it off you been hospital ? |
| 22 | It was not so much the escape itself that mattered but being able to say you had done it . |
| 23 | ‘ My mother used to say you had scaly green skin and terrible halitosis . ’ |
| 24 | And what we 're going to do is to say You had your water tablet this morning have n't you ? |
| 25 | Asked to say who had ‘ campaigned most impressively ’ , 32 per cent named Mr Ashdown and the Liberal Democrats , 27 per cent Mr Kinnock and the Labour party and only 23 per cent Mr Major and the Conservatives . |
| 26 | He refused to say who had made the complaints ; they included inattention to patients , negligence as to cleanliness , and lack of supervision by the superintendent nurse . |
| 27 | Self , Mrs. , and children except Katarina got into No. 1 1st class carriage just to say we had been there ’ . |
| 28 | In the early days it had looked as if the directors would be the key men in Hollywood and from all over America men anxious to use the format to say something had been attracted to the movies . |
| 29 | And people stressing a cost factor as important were relatively likely to say they had had at least some choice between different credit arrangements , whereas people stressing convenience were relatively likely to say there had been only one possibility ( though differences were small ) . |
| 30 | There was a call to say there had been an accident involving a lorry which had careered off the road spilling its load of drums , some of which were leaking an unidentified liquid . |