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Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun pl] say " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	During the struggle police said Annie Murphy injured her foot , although she later refused medical treatment .
2	In the letter to the Times , the board members say : ‘ The controversy surrounding the employment arrangements of John Birt has obscured the major issue in British broadcasting — the future of the BBC beyond 1996 when its current Charter expires .
3	but they did n't explode , so the RAF lads said they were made of macaroni .
4	As I work as a mechanic on diesel engines I had the opportunity of testing the output of the ‘ W ’ terminal , and it was , as the text books said , 7 to 8 volts .
5	The computer men said , rubbish .
6	Dad scowled at Mum when one of the removal men said to him , ‘ Yow 've got a right one theea mate .
7	The drug companies say that .
8	The words of Hansard speak little , but the Division lists say it all : they are padded with payroll .
9	‘ None of the Chelsea lads said anything to me .
10	An advertisement had appeared on one of the university noticeboards saying that Benghazi University in Libya was looking for a lecturer in engineering .
11	One of the university students said she had brushed past him in the corridor and gone out into the street .
12	The Building Societies say they 're often unaware that tenants have moved in to properties until they 've been repossessed .
13	But the banking unions say the job losses are unjustified .
14	The course owners say they could compromise .
15	The course owners say extra bunkers may do the trick .
16	Contrary to what the course books say , we do distinguish between familiar and formal modes of address in English , between tu and usted .
17	However , the WO statisticians said this county practice of estimating higher than the ‘ base estimate ’ population growth did not add up — there simply will not be enough people to reach the higher estimates , even with the historically high levels of inward migration being predicted .
18	One aide let into the secret of the wedding plans said : ‘ All we have been told is that the question was asked on board her new boat .
19	What was it he had overheard that woman in the Lydsett stores saying ?
20	It was the first time they had met although he had known of her existence as he had of all the handful of people who lived , as the Lydsett villagers said , ‘ t' other side of the gate ’ .
21	In response to a further telephone call from the police station at 1.17 a.m. the ambulance services said that an ambulance would be at the scene in five to seven minutes .
22	She levered his arm up and down like a pump handle , then turning to the card players said : ‘ Bob , Joe , Mr Loveitt , Dr Plumb , ladies … you know Mr Godschalk from Bretyard and Pope Insurance Office . ’
23	The car makers say they 're confident there 'll be no shortage of buyers .
24	‘ The programme notes said you 'd been in Cats . ’
25	The programme makers say the alleged fraud not only crippled the Ghanaian economy by taking £30m out of the country , but also caused an environmental disaster .
26	The plaintiff vendors sought to set aside the expert 's decision and to have the court decide the matter , but the defendant purchasers said that the plaintiffs could not do that because the contract bound them to accept the expert 's decision .
27	Until this visit he had preferred the instruments of Franz Jakob Späth , but he now acknowledged the superiority of the Stein instruments saying that the escapement action meant that the damping of the keys was so much cleaner .
28	The cafe owners say they 've never caused an accident .
29	The cell members said that four of them read papers regularly ( that is , once a week ) , four read them seldom , and the rest very rarely .
30	All told , the Warwick researchers said that the compensation effects could increase employment by 420000 — more than cancelling out the destruction of jobs in factories or offices that take on board the new technologies .