Example sentences of "say that [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ? |
| 2 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 3 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 4 | His daughter says that he had been ill — the slight differences in his signature might be due to illness . " |
| 5 | There they lived their lives , and prospered for a while ; but there was a disquiet amongst them , for it was said that they had been created with a purpose in this life , and that the purpose had something to do with the manner of their creation . |
| 6 | An interlocutory injunction was sought , but not granted by the court , where it was said that there had been a breach , but that an injunction would not be granted on a balance of convenience . |
| 7 | I really wanted to identify with him and wished that I could have said that I had been in the Falklands or in Northern Ireland , thereby establishing some sort of link . |
| 8 | Thus , whilst in 1953 Armed Forces support was invoked by the Party , in 1957 it might be said that it had been enlisted by a faction , albeit the First Secretary 's own . |
| 9 | Not only was he being fearfully indiscreet , but it was said that he had been foolish enough actually to marry her and to install her in a cottage in the palace grounds . |
| 10 | The Poles took the matter seriously , but the League of Nations , saying that no-one had been hurt and perhaps the revolver had not been loaded , took no action . |
| 11 | Mr Ben Ali had indicated some softening of his position towards the fundamentalists in an interview with visiting Arab journalists on Monday , saying that they had been offered the chance to open their own newspaper . |
| 12 | With the others I felt … on the same side as them because they were saying that they had been tortured themselves in a way , had been turned into animals , tools . |
| 13 | A few years earlier , Alessandro Conti wrote in similar vein of Fra Angelico 's frescoes at San Marco in Florence , saying that they had been permanently disfigured . |
| 14 | Differences emerged between the manufacturing and service sectors , however , with 44 per cent of the former saying that they had been affected by green concerns , as against just 29 per cent of the latter . |
| 15 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 16 | The Katsina police commissioner was later quoted as saying that there had been no deaths , contrary to media reports . |
| 17 | Earlier this year , however , the state minister for primary industries , Dr Kang Yaik , had been reported as saying that there had been a " phenomenal " increase in production and that there was no need to for reductions because " exploitation is carried out very properly on a sustainable yield basis " . |
| 18 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 19 | It is the equivalent of a British government refusing to appear for questions in the House saying that it had been elected and therefore did not need to defend its decisions before parliament . |
| 20 | Mr. Downham also presented the financial account , saying that it had been decided not to increase the parish council 's share from the community charge , by more than five percent . |
| 21 | By the week 's end the proctologist was saying that it had been the best goddamned vacation he had ever taken , and as we passed the bunkering moorings near McIllvanney 's yard I saw him take Ellen aside and I guessed he was offering her a job . |
| 22 | Helen asked no questions about Chris , only saying that it had been a lovely evening and Moira was still talking about the tinned peaches and jelly . |
| 23 | Aquino , who had insisted that foreign nationals were safe in the Philippines , criticized the decision to suspend the volunteer programme , saying that it had been made hastily and without consultation with the host country . |
| 24 | The Justice Ministry issued a statement denying that the Minister 's remarks were racist , but on Sept. 25 , after a US State Department statement describing his remarks as " offensive to the American people " , Kayijama apologized and retracted his statement , saying that it had been " completely inappropriate " . |
| 25 | They were on weak ground , for there were no precedents for this , and on 8 March the Cologne assembly , now meeting at Mulhouse , divested Philip of this title and denied the validity of his election , saying that it had been carried out in an unusual place and that the count Palatine and the archbishop of Mainz had been absent . |
| 26 | In October 1930 , ten months before the first National Government was formed , Sir Arthur Balfour , an industrialist and a member of the Economic Advisory Council , wrote to Ramsay MacDonald , saying that he had been forced to the conclusion : That our industrial and commercial economic situation is steadily deteriorating and if this continues , in a few months time , we shall be on the verge of a debacle . |
| 27 | Eye-witnesses denied this , however , saying that he had been engaged in a ‘ fair ’ stand up fight , but that when other people joined in he had fallen and struck his head on a tramline . |
| 28 | Ten days later he wrote to his sister saying that he had been asked to write an essay about Baldwin , but that he had refused , for he wished neither to lie nor to publish the truth , which he then proceeded to outline : |
| 29 | Also on June 9 , immediately after the close of polls , Jan Budaj , Deputy Chairman of the Slovak National Council ( parliament ) and a leading PAV candidate for the Council , announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy , saying that he had been registered as a collaborator with the StB in the 1970s . |
| 30 | Prime Minister John Compton defended Fostin by saying that he had been subjected to unjustified attacks in the press over the poor state of the country 's roads . |