Example sentences of "quote [conj] say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this means attributing to Athens an uncharacteristic desire for land empire , we should not hesitate to do so — Thucydides ( i. 111 ) after all records an expedition to Thessaly as well ; and if any individual was responsible it was surely Pericles , whom Aristotle ( Rhetoric 1407 ) quotes as saying that the Boiotians tended to ‘ cut each other down ’ — that is , they were weak because internally divided . |
| 2 | The England hooker , who has already said that he would have accepted only the usual expenses had he undertaken this summer 's tour of the Republic marking the South African Rugby Board 's centenary , has now been quoted as saying that ‘ remuneration was mentioned . ’ |
| 3 | The foreman was quoted as saying that the woman in question had shown ‘ everything she had ’ . |
| 4 | Fighting erupted in Beirut yesterday shortly after President Elias Hrawi was quoted as saying that Syrian troops would leave parts of Lebanon as soon as he had overcome the resistance of troops of General Michel Aoun in the Christian enclave . |
| 5 | Mr Beregovoy has been quoted as saying that he is not ashamed to be called a social democrat . |
| 6 | The FDA was quoted as saying that the asthma drug Intal , which accounts for about half of Fisons ' pharmaceutical sales , was still on sale despite ‘ violations ’ only because of its medical necessity . |
| 7 | Robert Malpas , chairman of the privatised power company Powergen , was quoted as saying that he would like to ‘ get away ’ with fitting FGD at just one of his power stations . |
| 8 | During the summer of 1985 there was evidence of increasing tension , and a prominent member of the Hornsey Police Federation was quoted as saying that rank and file officers ‘ desperately wanted to go in hard and sort out the criminals ’ . |
| 9 | I have been quoted as saying that it is not birth , marriage , or death , but gastrulation which is truly ‘ the important event in your life ’ . |
| 10 | A senior official in the Zambian Ministry of Planning was recently quoted as saying that development aid has to be spent more on sustaining than developing . |
| 11 | Colleagues were quoted as saying that Heber was rarely seen on campus . |
| 12 | She apparently told her sometime lover , Marlon Brando , ‘ I do n't know if I do it right ’ and Norman Mailer , another to enjoy her favours , was quoted as saying that the screen goddess was ‘ pleasant in bed , but receptive rather than innovative ’ . |
| 13 | But I 've heard him quoted as saying that one of the reasons he did n't come was because they did n't have a venue large enough , because people would want to come from all over Europe . |
| 14 | Watergate co-star John Ehrlichman was quoted as saying that Nixon got ‘ pie-eyed ’ at least once . |
| 15 | Alexander ‘ I am in control ’ Haig , Nixon 's last national security assistant , was quoted as saying that he sometimes had to act as president when ‘ Nixon was drunk . ’ |
| 16 | A solicitor from Wellington in New Zealand was quoted as saying that Ofahengaue had agreed to terms and was 99 per cent sure the forward would sign a three-year deal worth $800,000 . |
| 17 | The PR dangers were summed up early on when one analyst was quoted as saying that the bid was akin ‘ to mugging an old age pensioner ’ . |
| 18 | The PR dangers were summed up early on when one analyst was quoted as saying that TI 's bid for Dowty was akin to ‘ mugging an old age pensioner ’ |
| 19 | Unnamed friends of the prince were quoted as saying that he would never be involved in a slanging match with Diana . |
| 20 | Earlier Wittgenstein was quoted as saying that psychological verbs are ‘ characterized by the fact that the third person of the present is to be verified by observation , the first person not . ’ |
| 21 | The publicity spoke of there being no lesson in the film : Bogart was quoted as saying that ‘ if there is one thing that has no place in theatrical show it is an attempt to preach ’ , but no member of the audience could miss the point of this film . |
| 22 | In a recent article in a Dutch newspaper ( NRC Handelsblad 25.3.92 ) , Keune was quoted as saying that the paint was ‘ an industrial product with good properties for objects which have to endure a lot of wear and tear , but that it was not something to be used in restorations . |
| 23 | In an interview soon after his appointment as Director General , Joe Pilling , a senior civil servant , was quoted as saying that the transformation of the Prison Service into an executive agency would help to distance it from the Home Office and achieve greater operational freedom , adding : |
| 24 | The current Prince of Wales has been quoted as saying that ‘ something as curious as the monarchy wo n't survive unless you take account of people 's attitudes … after all , if people do n't want it , they wo n't have it ’ ( quoted in Rose , 1985 : 75 ) . |
| 25 | A colleague of Dr Maden 's is quoted as saying that nothing was done because ‘ nothing really terrible had happened … |
| 26 | Gorbachev , arriving in Ottawa ( Canada ) on May 29 for an official visit , was quoted as saying that he was " somewhat worried " by Yeltsin 's victory . |
| 27 | Pérez de Cuéllar was quoted as saying that he welcomed the decision of the government to undertake reforms . |
| 28 | The CNI itself had nominally been disbanded in March 1990 , but the Defence Minister was quoted as saying that it was preferable to keep former CNI agents " in the establishment than in the street " . |
| 29 | However , the New York-based human rights group Middle East Watch was reported on Dec. 17 to have estimated the deaths at 1,000 and arrests at 5,000 ; its director , Andrew Whiteley , was quoted as saying that there was no wish to overstate human rights abuses in order to " whip up war fever " . |
| 30 | On Feb. 20 the Information Minister was quoted as saying that Kuwait will have to be " purified of intruders … who seek to sow doubt in the unity of Kuwaiti ranks " . |