Example sentences of "say that [pron] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramesh K says that he had not met Mr Uppal before , and his brother , Kewal K , says that he briefly met Mr Uppal some years ago . |
| 2 | Dr. Kerr had said that they had not done so — but he was ‘ too wordy and declamatory for a witness ’ . |
| 3 | In fact , those who retired prematurely were less likely than those who waited until pension age to have said that they had ever thought seriously about early retirement ( 24 per cent compared with 44 per cent in the age-group 60 and over ) . |
| 4 | Some would have said that he had not taken even the first step , since he had been invested irregularly with his pastoral staff by the king . |
| 5 | He would have said that he had as reasonable an acquaintance with sorcery as anyone in Ireland . |
| 6 | It was widely said that he had long resented the Shah 's great oil wealth and the independence that it gave him . |
| 7 | However the representatives of NEC and Fujitsu reserved comment , saying that they had not received official notice of their position and that they looked to the future to reveal this . |
| 8 | Members of the Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) , led by Rachid Ghanouchi , were reported as saying that they had not put up candidates because of the government 's continued refusal officially to recognise the party . |
| 9 | And he commanded and requested the Christians that they should show great honour to the Moors , and respect them , and greet them when they met : and the Moors thanked the Cid greatly for the honour which the Christians did them , saying that they had never seen so good a man , nor one so honourable , nor one who had his people under such obedience . |
| 10 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 11 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |
| 12 | Again , in October 1281 , Edward I wrote to her , saying that she had always striven to keep the peace between Henry III and Louis , and between Philip III and himself . |
| 13 | On Sept. 24 the Deputy Prime Minister , Tariq Aziz , justified the detention of the team , saying that it had wrongfully seized personnel records . |
| 14 | Enterprise 's managing director Ted Tuppen defended the supply deal , saying that it had not been a condition of the sale that Enterprise take its beers from Bass . |
| 15 | Downing Street sought to explain the decision by saying that it had not been on his diary anyway . |
| 16 | But London Ambulance Service categorically denied that it had plans to cut off phone lines , saying that it had only authorised one disconnection at Park Royal Ambulance Station , West London , because crews had locked themselves in . |
| 17 | The order , issued at the end of talks between IAEA and Iraqi officials in Vienna on March 20-25 , was described as " unfair " by the chief Iraqi negotiator , Khalid Ibrahim Sa'id , who had reportedly argued against Al-Atheer 's destruction , saying that it had originally been conceived as a civilian facility and should be allowed to continue operating as such . |
| 18 | Doreen , loyal to her role of concubine , had tried to cheer him up by saying that it had never been so good . |
| 19 | Chipenda had earlier resigned as election organizer for the MPLA [ see p. 38949 for his election to MPLA central committee and political bureau ] , saying that he had not been given sufficient funds for the campaign and citing a " lack of the necessary trust and openness " in the party . |
| 20 | He began talking about the state of the world , saying that he had n't even looked at a newspaper all day , when one was enjoying oneself one too easily forgot everything that was not on the personal level : and yet how desperately the economic situation was deteriorating everywhere week by week , it could not end well , it might lead to anything . |
| 21 | Mr Braithwaite wrote to Douglas saying that he had n't been contacted since February . |
| 22 | For those of us who ca n't make Goodison I think R5 has full commentary on the match … infact they interviewed Wilko last night who was saying that he had n't thought about whether or not anyone could catch Scum , but he was only interested in how many points we could get ‘ it 's like the Grand National ’ , he said , ‘ plenty of favourites fall the seconf time round ’ . |
| 23 | The Mukhabarat demanded he sign an affidavit accusing his brother of all sorts of other crimes and saying that he had always been a traitor at heart . |
| 24 | He wound up his reply to the delegation by saying that he had only put the £30,000 for the foundations into the estimates for the present session and would ask Scott for elevations in a different style . |
| 25 | The Grosvenor Estate 's management blamed vandalism for the spill from the outset , saying that someone had deliberately opened a valve in the 1,000-gallon tank at Aldford Hall Farm and allowed the diesel to leak into the river . |
| 26 | A leading member of the music panel said that they had not been informed in advance that the future of Kent Opera would be discussed in November . |
| 27 | But other members said that they had not known of plans to attack Mr Reagan . |
| 28 | A survey of retired people by MORI revealed that nearly half of those questioned said that they had not made sufficient allowance for inflation . |
| 29 | Carrie asked them anxiously , and they only said that they had not seen him without saying how ridiculous the question was . |
| 30 | By the end of the day , many of them said that they had not talked to so many people since the last Newbury Rally ! |