Example sentences of "said [that] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nevertheless Dr Neil encouraged Rose to help ; he said that he really needed two pairs of hands now that Effie was fully dilated . |
| 32 | Giving his height as six-foot , he said that he always wore glasses except when playing football . |
| 33 | An example of this was given by a liaison group teacher who said that he always asks his classes for their height and weight : he had yet to come across one pupil who used the metric system . |
| 34 | Dr Mumby , supported by his staff , said that he always asked patients ' permission before giving their names to journalists . |
| 35 | The hon. Gentleman said that he personally does not want a fourth boat . |
| 36 | Mr Murray [ John Murray , the publisher ] said that he once asked Ivy if she had ever found any actual conversation of use in her writing . |
| 37 | He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week . |
| 38 | Do I take it from what the hon. Gentleman just said that he now has figures for every local authority under his proposals ? |
| 39 | Concerning videotapes , the Head of Department said that he only held two which were shared with another department ( i.e. were constantly reused ) and that he could not afford to build up a library of them . |
| 40 | He said that he much preferred the money they could afford for clothing to go onto the boys ' backs , and onto her . |
| 41 | He said that he too had lost an election ; he had felt very bad when the people of new York rejected him , and he could empathize with what the Shah now felt . |
| 42 | Jeremiah experienced God as a pain that invaded his every limb , and Muhammad said that he never received a revelation without feeling that his soul was being torn from his body . |
| 43 | And when in 1937 a questionnaire was distributed to authors about their attitude towards the Spanish Civil War , he sent the reply ( which he said that he never expected to be published ) that , " While I am naturally sympathetic I still feel convinced that it is best that at least a few men of letters remain silent " . |
| 44 | If Craig Charleston said that he never wanted to see another Spitfire project , I would not be surprised , I 'll wager that he does though ! |
| 45 | Timothy Hutton was looking uncomfortable and McLeish said that it just seemed a lot to him . |
| 46 | His department said that it only kept records of strikes lasting more than three days and involving more than 100 people . |
| 47 | On Nov. 7 the newly elected Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church , Pieter Potgieter , confessed his church 's guilt at the role it had played in establishing apartheid and said that it now considered that policy to be wrong . |
| 48 | Formed in 1960 as a national liberation movement , SWAPO led the struggle against colonial rule , and in April 1990 Nujoma said that it now faced the challenge of transformation into a political party , geared to political campaigning and fighting elections . |
| 49 | She said that it never occurred to her or her husband that her village would be harmed or its people endangered . |
| 50 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |