Example sentences of "said he [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.

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31 He said he would love to make the Man Utd game .
32 He said he would appoint a new ambassador to Moscow and new members to a team dealing with outstanding issues between the two countries to increase the emphasis on economic questions .
33 At one point during the campaign , he said he would appoint a peace envoy to Northern Ireland if elected a controversial idea which drew a sharp response from Ulster Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew .
34 Just to think , he said he would dance every dance with me if only I would stay .
35 Shackel became indignant and said he would fetch a magistrate and complain about the Chief Constable 's attitude , which he did .
36 Because her sleep was still disturbed and her consequent lack of energy was making her job and domestic chores more difficult , the therapist said he would advise her general practitioner to prescribe a mild hypnotic , but that this would be for a strictly limited period .
37 Said he would pay TWO HUNDRED guineas for it .
38 I said that we would make the trip to Montparnasse one night and sing around the " Coupole " and the " Dome " for Reggie , my parents and their friends , but my father said he would pay us a lot of money to stay away .
39 Several delegates expressed disappointment at the delay in the electricity privatisation timetable , but Mr Wakeham said he would make no apology .
40 He said he would make an announcement about his plans on Wednesday .
41 After the show , he said he would make me one and so I said that I would really like a sort of Gibson 355 , like BB was using in the mid-'60s and I would like my name on it and all sort of things .
42 I rang Winston and he said he would make an enquiry at the Foreign Office .
43 The friend said he would make some enquiries and ring back later that day .
44 He said he would make arrangements for Mrs Bean to be taken to hospital , but that he would prefer to talk to her son first .
45 Mr Hattersley , in Darlington to meet Labour 's northern candidates , said he would make extra police manpower a top priority .
46 Back at home they lay out on the terrace on the spread quilts and Rufus said he would sleep there .
47 Roger Lyon , assistant general secretary of the Manufacturing Science and Finance union , said he would demand that Ferranti should discuss all takeover plans with the workforce first .
48 Labour 's Derek Foster said he would lobby Agriculture Minister John Gummer to overturn a decision by the Intervention Board to take away the licence for certifying steers castrated bulls .
49 I went back to court seven days after that , there was a bail application put forward and the magistrate said he would grant bail with a surety of £500 .
50 Lipski said he would repeat the offer to Colonel Beck in Warsaw , but that he was sure the answer would be ‘ no ’ .
51 Mr Patten said he would welcome a management-employee buy-out bid for both .
52 Crosby tried to land Porter on loan earlier in the season and the 26-year-old — transfer-listed this week — said he would welcome a return to his home-town club .
53 He said he would welcome the widely anticipated dissolution of the county council by the Government but would not now insist that Yarm was administered by North Yorkshire County Council .
54 Mr Churchill said he would welcome a change in the law to steer the market in favour of coal .
55 One of them said he faced a possible ban from International footie ( playing for France I assume , and any matches the scum have in Europe — nyuk , nyuk ) , the other said he would face a ban from the game — AS A WHOLE .
56 He said he would appear in court today charged with theft and forgery after he admitted changing £90,000 worth of forged travellers cheques .
57 Mr Healey said he would go round quoting that example to people .
58 — My Auntie said he would go far Apparently
59 But he said he would go if fellow MPs wanted him to .
60 As soon as the meal was over Tony said he would go for Sarah .
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