Example sentences of "[pers pn] said that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said that I understood she came from the Continent , and she told me that she was born in Denmark . |
| 2 | I said that I thought they were wrong ; but that if that was their reason for declining to serve I could only accept it and be sorry . |
| 3 | Back in Britain writing my last newsletter to the Group in Scotland I had loved and brought together , I said that I thought we had to be much bolder , taking an a priori stance on the fact that there could be no discrimination against women . |
| 4 | I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come . |
| 5 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |
| 6 | But he said er , and I said that I gather you 're seeing Lynda the weekend if you do find anything perhaps you could pass it on to her . |
| 7 | I said that I believed it would now be right to give some indication of the Government 's attitude to the building of a tunnel . |
| 8 | I said that I think you 'll find , Ron that Trudy if she married would have to give up her late husband 's occupational widow 's pension so that the way you 're going on now , where you go and stay with her for two or three days at a time is far better oh no , no , no , she 'll be able to keep her pension I said I very much doubt it then I said people are so jealous that if she does marry you and he does n't tell the firm I bet that one of her dear neighbours will oh no they 're all very nice people round where she lives , I thought there 's no good arguing with Ron ! |
| 9 | ‘ If I said that I trusted you , ’ she whispered , forcing the words to form , ‘ if I told you that , come what may , I trusted you , would you still be confused ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I said that she believed it , ’ she persisted furiously . |
| 11 | when I spoke to about it she said that you told her to hand it over to my department cos it was a national account |
| 12 | No , because she said something , she said that I said something did n't she ? |
| 13 | And she said that she keeps her dog indoors now because she wo n't You know their big alsatian ? |
| 14 | ‘ I read a very good piece by Candida Crewe , in which she said that she felt her life had been made richer by having had step-parents . |
| 15 | And they talked to her , most politely : the Martin man asked her when she was doing her Finals , and she told him , and he asked her what she was going to do then , and she said that she thought she would do a teacher 's training course . |
| 16 | As she pulled the dress over my head she said that she thought it would still fit her , that she could see the hole at the neckline where my grandmother had pinned a pearl brooch as something old , that the classic line never dated . |
| 17 | But then you see , she said that she thought it was too many so she put it |
| 18 | from Pilkingtons and there 's little , she said you would n't notice it but there 's little like , little things on and when he did the grouting yesterday she said that she said it was awful , she did n't like it at all so she told him this morning |
| 19 | She said that she penalized her cos of her weight . |
| 20 | In the same speech she said that she wanted her government to be remembered as one ‘ which decisively broke with a debilitating consensus of a paternalistic Government and a dependent people ; which rejected the notion that the State is all powerful and the citizen is merely its beneficiary ; which shattered the illusion that Government could somehow substitute for individual performance ’ . |
| 21 | He was full of inconsequential but amusing chatter and Louise had been right when she said that he knew everybody . |
| 22 | You said that you got it for a bet , well a bet is usually something like swimming in the North Sea on Christmas Day , I mean something sharp and brief , while working for a degree , however brilliant you are , takes years . |
| 23 | Did y you said that you had your purse stolen , did someone actually break into the flat ? |
| 24 | And apart from the garden that you said that you made it lovely while you were there , what other things did you do to make it look like a home ? |
| 25 | Oh right , I see when you said that I thought he was going to an army regiment that they put up in Gloucester |
| 26 | And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong . |
| 27 | They said that he awarded his decisions according to the spontaneity of an appeal . |
| 28 | McCurbin died of asphyxiation from pressure applied to the neck , but the police who arrested him said that they thought he was faking as he struggled for life . |
| 29 | Er again after you do that very same thing erm you know jingle your change and one of them he said that I reckon you got three pound eighty . |
| 30 | He said that he heard something like and mum and dad said he saw you and he said , hope she 's gon na tape it . |