Example sentences of "said [conj] on " in BNC.
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1 | One woman who grows some big vegetables , but is normally more interested in quality , said that on no account would she touch one of the big pumpkins . |
2 | On the swings and roundabouts of crew changes , Grant Dalton , skipper of the New Zealand ketch Fisher & Paykel , issued a denial that Britain 's Chris Law would be joining the crew , while Lawrie Smith , skipper of Rothmans , said that on 20 October he would announce that David Powys would boost the crew to 14 , plus one or two others . |
3 | Dr Peter Stefanini , managing director of Coalite Chemicals , said that on reviewing its business activities , Anglo took ‘ a new view on the chemical division and the liquid fuel division ’ and now considers them to be non-core businesses . |
4 | One gentleman said that on his 65th birthday his sole thought had been , not the hope that his grandchildren would send a card , but that never again would the manilla envelope summoning him to do jury service tumble through his letterbox . |
5 | Earlier I said that on the whole our food was not bad : salads , fruits and nuts were plentiful but I had taken on my parent 's tastes . |
6 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
7 | Allowing the Crown 's appeal , and dismissing the taxpayer 's cross-appeal , Lord Justice Scott said that on a first reading of s 72 it was natural to read subsection ( 4 ) as one of a group of subsections dealing only with cases where the amount of capital distribution was comparatively small . |
8 | Mr Owens said that on further investigation the RSPCA officer found a terrapin in a glass tank with no food . |
9 | Again , when Jews were refused ordination in the national protestant church in Germany during the Third Reich , the church split , for there were those who said that on principle ( whatever might be the case in the state ) this could not be in the church . |
10 | ‘ She said that on Monday , 26 July 1982 she was asked by her husband to go to the bank at 3 p.m . |
11 | Further and/or alternatively , the judge said that under the provisions of article 13 of the Convention he considered that there was a grave risk that the return of the child would place him in an intolerable situation , and said that on that ground also he would have declined to order the return of the child . |
12 | In this memoirs he said that on 15 March he learned that Hassan was pressing Washington to admit the Shah . |
13 | And you said that on twenty first of June , Stanley , was |
14 | He said that on one of his voyages , he passed a floating island thronged with demonic blacksmiths who forged and hammered the evil souls of assassins ! ’ |
15 | Henry Yaxlee said that on Friday night he 'd done the accounts till quite late , made a round of the stables about eleven-thirty and gone to bed soon after . |
16 | Mr. Bikov said that on those secret sites , nuclear weapons were still being built . |
17 | The chairman said that on that matter he could not give Mr. Bulmer an assurance . |
18 | He said that on that day he had 70 pupils at the West Lothian college and Oatridge agricultural college , and the links between the colleges were excellent . |
19 | Anthony Butler , technical officer for the British Parachute Association , said that on leaving the Cessna plane at 10,000ft , Mr Tipping was required to deploy a throw-away pilot chute packed so it would not open , to give the impression of trailing behind . |
20 | Now it says on average for , and then essentially we looked at the three main support of erm protectionist powers , like the E E C , U S A and Japan right , and they said that on average alright for every one dollar benefit alright for every one dollar benefit , one agricultural support , right it actually costs right one one fifty dollars of the general statistics in order to give a pounds worth of support to domestic farmers , we er have to find one pounds fifty right . |
21 | He said that on Donna Simpkin 's death , mantack stood to get £90,000 from a life insurance policy that had been taken out just days before the killing . |
22 | The Irish-Americans said that on their return to the United States they would be reporting their findings to ‘ public and private officials ’ . |
23 | Mr Johnson said that on a previous occasion , Mr Chittenden had asked him to deliver flowers to her in her office . |
24 | Mr Lighten 's widow , Anne , said that on March 25 , Mr Lighten left for work . |
25 | Susan Montgomery , a food service assistant at the hospital said that on the day Mrs Gilfoyle , 33 , was found , Gilfoyle was unusually reticent . |
26 | He said that on the issue of whether parents in such circumstances could claim damages , he had reached a different conclusion from Lord Prosser . |
27 | Chester Central and Westminster councillor Derek Bateman said that on Sundays calls were sometimes answered in Gateshead . |
28 | She said that on the morning of September 18 her husband got up about 6.30am . |
29 | She scared me witless when she said that on Thursday about coming in |
30 | Who said and on which occasion : ‘ In church on Sunday it was lovely , and the sun was coming through the stained glass window and falling on some flowers . |