Example sentences of "say they would [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked whether Labour 's tax plans would reduce incentives for managers and executives , 22 per cent say they would work less hard . |
| 2 | Those who remain in the area say they 'd go back and restore the houses again tomorrow , given the chance . |
| 3 | Many of them say they 'd like rather more variety . |
| 4 | Secretary of the SL Board , Neil Perera , states : ‘ We have told the TCCB specifically that we are not interested in one-off Test matches and they have said they would reply shortly ’ . |
| 5 | They decided to go outside and slug it out but Swanson stopped them , saying they would draw too much attention . |
| 6 | On a visit to Scarborough with Janet Rigby , they walked over a bridge and said they would meet up again on it one day . |
| 7 | Defying the last minute predictions of a BBC exit poll which said they would hold only three seats , the Tories won Aberdeen South from Labour and regained Kincardine and Deesside from the Liberal Democrats . |
| 8 | The judges handed the Tobacco Institute of Australia something of a pyrrhic victory when they said they would set aside Justice Morling 's injunction on the further publication of the advertisement on the legalistic basis that the Tobacco Institute of Australia had previously indicated to the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations that it would not republish the advertisement anyway . |
| 9 | ‘ Undoubtedly if the justices had proceeded to adjudicate on the case either by convicting or by acquitting the defendant , that would have afforded ground for a good plea to the indictment , but I can not see why the fact that the justices at first said they would deal summarily with the case and afterwards changed their minds should be said to have deprived quarter sessions of jurisdiction . |
| 10 | They said they would follow later , perhaps , once he was set up in America . |
| 11 | Wickham said they would know soon enough because he had sent someone to ask Ayling . |
| 12 | At a meeting with the consortium more than a week ago , Caledonian directors said they would help only if they were given a controlling interest in the pit . |
| 13 | So they said they would come back the next week and see what I thought . |
| 14 | We decided to return to the Crot and ran into the Bruton brothers , Ron and Reg , who said they would come along with us . |
| 15 | His sentence was terminated when Sahara officials bailed him out and said they would pick up the tab for the room but he would have to pay for his food and drink himself . |
| 16 | Kasparov and Short said they would spend up to two weeks carefully examining them . |
| 17 | I 'm told it 's the 43rd single release off the album they said they 'd split up after if it did n't outsell Guns N' Roses ( or something ) . |
| 18 | I thought you said they 'd take about four hours . ’ |
| 19 | In the end they said they 'd come round . |
| 20 | I phoned them last week and said you know have you got any suggestions , and they said they 'd come back to me and they have n't . |
| 21 | Their first tactic was to say they would take away the licence of any striker : their second was to say all striking drivers were in breach of contract and fire them . |
| 22 | Did did they say they 'd come today yeah ? |