Example sentences of "[subord] saying [that] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following their release , a police officer was quoted by a local newspaper as saying that he had been forced to sign a statement implicating them in the murders . |
| 2 | Malcolm Toon , a special US envoy inquiring into US prisoners of war still held in the former Soviet Union , was quoted on July 1 as saying that he had found no evidence to substantiate the claims made by Russian President Boris Yeltsin in June [ see p. 38986 ] . |
| 3 | The right hon. Member for Blaby may not like the idea of a European central bank , but he is clearly on record as saying that he believes that in this country 's economy an independent central bank would be a guarantee against inflation . |
| 4 | Pérez de Cuéllar was quoted as saying that he welcomed the decision of the government to undertake reforms . |
| 5 | No formal time limit appeared to have been set on the US military presence , although Bush was reported on Dec. 4 as saying that he wanted the troops out by Jan. 20 , 1993 , when he was due to leave office . |
| 6 | The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer , Norman Lamont , was also quoted as saying that he did not believe that the present position of the dollar had rendered it " uncompetitive . " |
| 7 | Bush himself was quoted as saying that he did not " want to get into a major harangue down there " . |
| 8 | He was on record as saying that he regarded the agonizing over Equal Opportunities on a paper which did not even exist as — at best — a red herring . |