Example sentences of "say that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we have is what the Gospels say that He said . |
| 2 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 4 | We say that he has done enough damage in bringing about the birth of this child , in giving him a father who does not know he is his father , a mother who is so ice-cold a scientist that she willingly abandons her own child to the researcher in the laboratory , where he will inevitably be regarded in the same light as any other laboratory animal . |
| 5 | According to Virginia Cowles , he dropped with Lewes 's party , but others say that he was left at Kabrit as a result of injuries during training and met up with the survivors later . |
| 6 | To interview only one club member and then say that he could be taken as representative of the whole club membership — perhaps several hundred in number — could not be substantiated . |
| 7 | Police say that he was kicked and punched by four people and struck about the head with a wooden object . |
| 8 | Afterwards he got in touch , not to sign me but to offer encouragement and say that he liked the album . |
| 9 | ‘ It is not pleasant for a human being to pass judgment on another and say that he is evil through and through without any redeeming features , but that is the conclusion I am forced to come to about you . ’ |
| 10 | I overheard him say that he lost his desire , lost his drive and everything . |
| 11 | There was no doubt in my mind at the time that Ferrari wanted him and that negotiations had reached a fairly advanced point : perhaps exactly the point Mario wanted , the point where he could go to Chapman and say that he 'd like to stay at Lotus but that Chapman had to be able to match Ferrari 's money . |
| 12 | ‘ They say that he is very tall and very thin , but no-one is really sure , ’ I said . |
| 13 | ‘ They say that he said he would never come again . |
| 14 | The staff there say that he is hyperactive and aggressive . |
| 15 | The staff there say that he is hyperactive and aggressive . |
| 16 | No , I do n't , and I get very cross when people say that he wasted his talent . |
| 17 | Mr Fuchs 's champions say that he made no attempt to hide the financial problems that had arisen during his previous post when he was employed by The Hague . |
| 18 | Some records say that he dismissed the White Lions and the rest of his retinue , claiming that he wanted a moment alone to contemplate the blade that had done his people so much harm . |
| 19 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |
| 20 | Others say that he was unwilling to move while BNP remained in state hands . |
| 21 | But erm they say that he had used to go and collect it and that was what was fed to the pigs . |
| 22 | Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . " |
| 23 | We will not , for example , say that he ‘ refers to ’ my uncle . |
| 24 | And , second , there is a sentence in Plutarch 's Life of Artaxerxes ( chapter iv ) about the revolt of the younger Cyrus ( for which see p. 184 ) : ‘ some say that he revolted because he was not given enough rations . ’ |
| 25 | Bystanders say that he was conscious and aware of what was happening and was asking for help . |
| 26 | And I heard Monks say that he 'd seen Oliver in the street , and that he knew at once Oliver was the child he was looking for , although I could n't hear why . |
| 27 | Believe me when I say that he has an unexpected side to him . |
| 28 | During this time of testing , a sufferer from alcoholism mat say that he or she can not be alcoholic because he or she does not drink in the mornings or is still in regular employment or still has a home and family or perhaps only drinks wine and beer but never spirits or only drinks at the weekends . |
| 29 | ‘ The English police report that Basil went to Paris on the midnight train on the ninth of November , but the French police say that he never arrived in Paris at all . |
| 30 | ‘ They also say that he was murdered because he was the father of Cissie Jordan 's baby . ’ |