Example sentences of "he say that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that transporting cannabis across the north sea in such a small dinghy could have resulted in disaster . |
| 2 | He says that getting fatter may be the result of a build-up of eating even as little as 200 , 100 or 50 calories a day more than you expend as energy — over a period of months or years . |
| 3 | He says that getting the children out quickly was a priority — fires in houses tend to spread very fast and he did the right thing . |
| 4 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 5 | my Lord that that 's with respect right , erm certainly what , what he says that does n't necessarily lead to that conclusion all it does is have void what maybe authority between |
| 6 | Repeatedly , he says that to brush a vicious old woman aside like a swatted fly and get on with life is to prove oneself a Napoleon — not Napoleon himself who lost whole armies and forgot about them , but a Napoleon . |
| 7 | Sulentic is not exaggerating when he says that understanding the nature of the link between NGC 4319 and Mrk 205 ‘ is surely one of the most important problems facing extragalactic astronomy ’ . |
| 8 | He says that registering care agencies would create ‘ an unnecessary bureaucracy ’ and would be counter-productive . |
| 9 | I was amused by J. Lipton 's letter in the November issue , in which he says that having driven a nail in the wood , if it splits , he knows he should have used a screw . |
| 10 | He says that going to Bosnia is hardly a holiday . |
| 11 | He says that illustrating this book was ‘ one of the happiest times of my life . ’ |
| 12 | Had n't he said that to express it would be just empty words ? |
| 13 | He said that developing a " European doctrine " on nuclear defence would " soon be one of the major questions " to be addressed by the European Communities ( EC ) in the movement towards political and economic unity . |
| 14 | He said that support for the opposition was growing , but many were still afraid — not surprisingly , as opposition leaders have already had officially-inspired warnings that , when the weekend 's official jubilation is over , there could be a new clampdown . |
| 15 | He said that looking out from the platform towards the town reminded him of the late President Kennedy looking out over the Berlin Wall . |
| 16 | He said that stamping on the head of players on the ground was not acceptable to his team . |
| 17 | He said that bringing in internment would be a very serious step , the consequences of which would be difficult to predict . |
| 18 | He said that went against new Department of Transport guidelines . |
| 19 | But he said that does not mean the administration has ruled out the use of force in future efforts to oust the general . |
| 20 | And the Chief said that does n't compare he said that does not concur with a visit I had last night in Glasgow whilst asleep when he awoke to a gleaming light at his bedroom and he said who are you and this figure said I am God and the Chief Fire Officer said well God , all I want to know is one thing , will I get my southern fire station ? |
| 21 | Elbowing his way through the crowd at the ‘ colonial streetfair ’ inside the Loews Glenpointe Hotel , he said that having paid $500 to get in , he was n't about to leave without being photographed with the next governor of New Jersey . |
| 22 | He said that ending the agreement would jeopardise the future of small or family-run shops , lead to fewer books being published and increase prices of all but a few best sellers . |
| 23 | He said that permitted grain imports since March had totalled only 100,000 tonnes , half the normal monthly grain requirements , and " only 15 per cent of our people can afford to buy food on the free market " . |
| 24 | I was never much use at school work , but he said that did n't matter , what was important was finding something and doing it so that you became good at it , better than the others , and that made you a person , gave you something they did n't have . |
| 25 | He said that returning to Sam might be best for her and her child . |
| 26 | He said that going into double figures must be marked . ’ |
| 27 | The main reason for the better than expected results appeared to be a delay in expenditure by the regional governments but in the longer term he said that cuts in public expenditure had helped to reduce the budget deficit from a peak of almost 13 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) in 1982 to 7.8 per cent in 1988 and 6.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 28 | But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler . |
| 29 | There was nothing about the man 's voice , nothing about what he said that cast any doubt on his motives . |