Example sentences of "[noun pl] say that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 from the Conservatives saying that they believed in nursery education .
2 We also booked hotels in advance , since the guidebooks said that they tended to be busy .
3 Size of establishment is associated with number of training programmes ( see Table 4 ) as one might expect it to be , although there are differences to be noted within authorities of similar size : while none of the large libraries said that they engaged in no planned training programmes , they did not fall into Category I ( Category I was 30 or more programmes and was a very broad grouping , with several libraries mentioning well over 100 programmes ) .
4 He got him to hospital and the doctors said that he lived for 70 minutes , but he was dead by the time we got there .
5 It seems that the guardian ad litem expressed some reservations about that decision to move the children in advance of the hearing , but by a letter of 24 January the father 's solicitors said that it seemed to them that the view of the guardian ad litem was ‘ quite wrong as a matter of law . ’
6 Three out of four PMT sufferers say that they overspend in the days before their period starts — the average ‘ blown ’ is £39 — and some women spend more than £100 , premenstrually , on unnecessary extras .
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