Example sentences of "said [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amnesty International , in a report last December , said that nothing at home had changed ‘ to alleviate gross violations of human rights ’ . |
| 2 | The vet said that nothing could be done to save her and that she had to be put down . |
| 3 | Despite the well-deserved victory against the Premier League outfit , Cambridge chairman Reg Smart said that nothing would be announced for at least another 24 hours . |
| 4 | The family , poor , simple folk , took him to hospital in the city , but doctors there said that nothing could be done . |
| 5 | She said that nothing of the sort would ever happen in her country , that the British are quite civilized , thank you , and that they make the rest of the world seem simply barbaric . |
| 6 | The prosecuting counsel said that nothing would be heard to criticise the victim 's character , who was timid and nervous . |
| 7 | ‘ Much worse , ’ he said wisely , but Cathbad said that nothing could be worse than Medoc . |
| 8 | The Queen commending his work , not only for the pains therein taken , said that nothing had given her so great delectation . |
| 9 | SFE 's executive director , James Scott , said that no-one should be in any doubt about the importance of the financial sector to the country as a whole . |
| 10 | He said that no-one from Europe had moved from Formula One to Indycars and been consistently successful . |
| 11 | And she said that yous are really out of order not going she said because she wanted to sit in that close with |
| 12 | ‘ I said that something was set on fire today . ’ |
| 13 | We 've often spoken about her and said that something has got to happen . |
| 14 | Just over half ( 55% ) of all applicants said that something could have been done to help them . |
| 15 | Will the Minister confirm that it is now five years since the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized , with tremendous loss of life , and two years since the committee for the research programme into the safety of roll on/roll off ferries said that something should be done about the safety of existing ferries — those built before 1990 ? |
| 16 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
| 17 | Who said that thou were sold |
| 18 | Writing to Brook about the Palestine Committee , a survivor from the Coalition , he said that its nominal chairman was Herbert Morrison but that it had ceased to function , its work having shifted to the Middle East Ministerial Committee under Ernest Bevin . |
| 19 | The Illustrated London News said that its rich encrustation of sculpture would make the building ‘ a monument and record of the great military men and achievements of the British nation ’ with statues of eminent commanders and ‘ the names and dates of remarkable victories ’ . |
| 20 | The Institute said that its main concern was ‘ whether the existing reporting system itself is performing satisfactorily and , if not , what further assistance the accountancy profession can provide ’ . |
| 21 | In a public statement early in January , the DUC said that its primary task was to ensure the health of the people of Donegal and that their environment would not suffer from uranium mining and related activities . |
| 22 | In its conference call with analysts yesterday morning , IBM said that its outlook continues to be difficult and uncertain in light of the destabilisation of its hardware business , and that sales of mainframes declined in a ‘ high double digit ’ rate in the first quarter on a year-to-year basis and that sales the AS/400 declined in all major geographies . |
| 23 | The product shows what can be done without formal specifications , however just how much of a lead the company has given itself is debatable : IBM said that its network node specifications will be published at the end of the month for public scrutiny . |
| 24 | Erskine House Group Plc shares nose-dived 14 pence to land at 27 pence after it said that its final dividend for 1992 will , at most , be nominal , saying that January and February had been dire in the US . |
| 25 | In its conference call with analysts yesterday morning , IBM said that its outlook continues to be difficult and uncertain in light of the destabilisation of its hardware business , and that sales of mainframes declined in a ‘ high double digit ’ rate in the first quarter on a year-to-year basis and that sales the AS/400 declined in all major geographies . |
| 26 | IBM made the announcement at the Semiconductor Industry Association meeting in San Jose , where it said that its Technology Products unit would have to start shuttering plants if it did n't succeed in its new initiative of selling chips to other vendors and offering them on the merchant market . |
| 27 | It also said that its proposed flotation has been held back to late this year or early next . |
| 28 | It used the allocation , came back and said that its original estimate was entirely wrong and it required an extra £48 million — the original estimate was £48 million out . |
| 29 | It said that its study had not discovered any conclusive evidence on the damage done to humans by low-level exposure , but it stated that the lack of information and knowledge of the effects of exposure to low doses of the chemicals over a long period had led the working party to adopt the precautionary principle that absence of evidence was not evidence of absence . |
| 30 | The Mexico-based Human Rights Committee of Guatemala ( CGDH ) also said that its members had been threatened with death for participating in a " national dialogue " involving members of the exiled opposition , held in March 1988 [ see pp. 36927-28 ] . |