Example sentences of "say that his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only close family members attended the service , some of whom say that his body showed signs of torture . |
| 2 | His critics say that his main contact with his Chicago district is a fond wave from the aeroplane as he travels from Los Angeles to Washington . |
| 3 | Friends of Dr Owen say that his farewell advice to the nation — he has now stood down as an MP — is intended to avoid damaging the chances for his two remaining SDP colleagues , Rosie Barnes and John Cartwright , who are fighting to hold on to their south-east London seats . |
| 4 | Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there . |
| 5 | Donald Wilson 's business , Ward and Son , of High Street , Aldeburgh , faces closure because trading standards officials say that his petrol pumps , which swing out over the pavement , are a hazard . |
| 6 | I remember being shocked at one time when I heard one of my predecessors say that his objective as chairman was to retain our position as a private company operating on a world basis in the chemical sector . |
| 7 | Some local people say that his spirit still walks among the hills , searching for lost travellers . |
| 8 | Albert would no doubt shrug philosophically , and say that his analysis concedes that the hare will sometimes run ahead of the tortoise . |
| 9 | Senator Moynihan now says that his plan is dead . |
| 10 | The owner of a competitive jumping horse says that his horse has a good temperament because it is ‘ consistent and courageous ’ . |
| 11 | John was then no more than fourteen , perhaps younger , but John Wright says that his interest in ballet and in puppets was already apparent . |
| 12 | Parker says that his sensor succeeds where others have failed in that it works under conditions resembling those found in physiological samples . |
| 13 | More specifically , he puts the young reader in touch with the French impressionists in his rich illustrations for Charlotte Zolotow 's Mr Rabbit and the lovely present ( although , strangely , he says that his main influence here was the American naturalistic painter , Winslow Homer ) , and with the pop art of cinema and food packaging in In the night kitchen . |
| 14 | If the second person says that his cards are in the first and last row you know that they are at the t in mutus and the t in dedit . |
| 15 | Ross says that his team searched for ‘ the sort of things you would never find here , both to Britain 's credit and to my great sorrow ’ . |
| 16 | Erich Thomsen says that his ‘ 1988 visit is remembered so fondly ’ and the staff at Ravenglass will be doing their best to make sure that this is another memorable weekend . |
| 17 | Afonso Dhlakama , Renamo 's leader , says that his fighters will give up their arms only when the camps are ready to receive them . |
| 18 | Frank Kirwan , director of strategy at RBS , says that his bank is deliberately locating its automated teller machines ( ATMs ) away from its branches . |
| 19 | Jolitz , interviewed by Unigram.X last week , says that his 386BSD , at least in its initial versions , was encumbered . |
| 20 | says that his facility , which employs some 50 robotic DNA sequencers , is finding between 500 and 1,000 new gene sequences a day , including partial sequences . |
| 21 | Gy François says that his people regard the chimpanzee as a brother , and on a special day every year , still celebrate the relationship . |
| 22 | The laibon says that his father saw the sense in it . |
| 23 | The laibon says that his family had offered forty-nine cattle in restitution , but the British took Tepilit to the coast and hanged him there . |
| 24 | Peter Snyman at Random Century says that a third South African lawyer telephoned him offering the autobiography ( he also says that his company never signed a contract with Ayob , though they did try to work out a deal ) . |
| 25 | He says that his afternoon in the arcade was the most exciting of his lie . |
| 26 | He says that his data showed that those businesses with low investment intensity did indeed start off with high ROI , as the earlier cross-sectional studies discovered , but that this often led managers to over-invest . |
| 27 | He says that his ancestors came over here from Brittany in the seventeenth century , fleeing from Catholic persecution . ’ |
| 28 | Professor Glennerster says that his research shows that none of the alleged scares about the scheme could be found to be true . |
| 29 | Compare the way that his brother may be part of the " given " starting situation , or part of the allegation in : ( 77 ) Wally says that his brother is an arms dealer Does this imply that there is a possible interpretation of ( 76 ) where red-haired is the " given " and her the item that is not solidly established ? |
| 30 | Suppose that Moriarty says that his watch broke , and from this Sherlock Holmes infers that he perpetrated the crime : although the information may have been indirectly conveyed , we should be loath to say that Moriarty communicated it . |