Example sentences of "he [verb] say " in BNC.

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31 Because He does not at once take wicked people out of the world , they seem to forget that He is angry with the wicked every day , and that He has said , ‘ Though hand join in hand , the wicked shall not be unpunished'' ’
32 He has said the change in diet and water would be calamitous and that he ought to rest where all is familiar for six months or more .
33 As he has said ‘ the man who throws a race is a crook for life ’ , it is fair to guess that Melges ' ’ day off ’ was for no other reason than that he wanted no part of any manipulation of points .
34 The famous American film star , W C Fields , has been known to earn as much as £1,000 a day and yet he has said that his greatest thrill in life is the luxury of stretching out at night between freshly laundered sheets .
35 Elsewhere he has said , ‘ all that the concept of subsidiarity boils down to is an expression of the national interest of member states .
36 The National Curriculum , ’ he has said , ‘ is leaving us free to question custom and precedent and to be imaginative in finding new solutions .
37 It is a conviction born of understanding , grounded solidly in the truth of who God is and what he has said and done .
38 On Prince Charles 's position he says : ‘ He has said he wo n't get divorced .
39 The next year , 1965 , he had his choice of three F1 teams competing for his services and chose BRM : as he has said , he wanted to be in a team ‘ where they would n't rush me , a team where I would n't be battling for my place every time I took the grid , a team where I could learn from a man like Graham Hill ’ .
40 ‘ You have to have the lows , the valleys , ’ he has said .
41 ‘ What he has said is so stupid .
42 He has said he lost something like £15,000 in potential earnings as a freelance builder and an injury suffered in the tournament has meant that he is unable to work — so he loses out both ways .
43 His own collection of miniatures was begun , he has said , because he could not afford to purchase entire illuminated manuscripts .
44 On this aspect of his collection he has said : ‘ Within this field , I try to obtain beautifully bound copies that belonged to a royal library , to a prince , or to a famous bibliophile .
45 However , he has said : ‘ If social services want to keep some kind of data about the additional services which may not immediately be necessary , I do n't think the process is going to open them up to a legal threat . ’
46 He has said nothing about the government 's economic package , with its plan for a FFr68 billion rise in taxes .
47 ‘ The aim is that the creative function , which is necessary for European identity will be protected ’ , he has said .
48 He has said enough to ensure that we will take his point .
49 For you know , this is what he has said ever since that day .
50 Dom João will be here in his own good time : he has said he will come to Ireland , and come he surely will . "
51 He has no permanent record of what he has said earlier , and only under unusual circumstances does he have notes which remind him what he wants to say next .
52 In particular situations the speech of , say , an academic , particularly if he is saying something he has said or thought about before , may have a great deal in common with written language forms .
53 When Goldsmith writes in The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ) of ‘ an elegant house , situate in a fine country , and a good neighbourhood ’ , or remarks of a room in an unusually magnificent mansion merely that it was ‘ perfectly elegant and modern ’ , he clearly feels that he has said enough , since every reader can gloss those adjectives himself .
54 In that time he has said 27 funeral masses for gang members who had died at gunpoint .
55 He has given very little account of how he spent his time , but he has said he spent the majority of that time with a travelling circus , both in this country and in the Irish Republic .
56 As I understood the submission , the Attorney-General was not contending that the use of Parliamentary material by the courts for the purposes of construction would constitute an ‘ impeachment ’ of freedom of speech since impeachment is limited to cases where a Member of Parliament is sought to be made liable , either in criminal or civil proceeding , for what he has said in Parliament , e.g. , by criminal prosecution , by action for libel or by seeking to prove malice on the basis of such words .
57 Maybe you do n't believe him but that , he has he has said this .
58 And soon , when I 'm old enough — he has said that I may have his camera , and take pictures for myself .
59 But something about him makes me feel that this time he will do what he has said .
60 He has said he can recognize the man , and is coming here tonight to make the assay .
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