Example sentences of "saying [conj] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Ware telephoned me five weeks after her husband died saying that she felt her children should be taken into care and she should be hospitalized because she could no longer cope . |
| 2 | She found herself saying that she felt her father was going to ‘ drop down ’ in some way . |
| 3 | The son of a Jat farmer outside Delhi , by the age of thirteen she was already refusing to work in the fields , saying that she felt more like a woman than a man . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you saying that she killed herself ? ’ |
| 5 | She had written to her mother giving no address , saying that she had left her husband and was going abroad , that she could do nothing more for her mother and had her own life to live . |
| 6 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 7 | It had come out of the blue : a brief note from her , saying that she had to undergo a surgical operation . |
| 8 | He would not report her fate to the Police , and he could divert enquiries by saying that she had gone to friends in the country . |
| 9 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 10 | When we arrived she greeted us kindly , her first honeymoon couple , showed us round the cottage , then excused herself , saying that she had 600 lettuces to plant out before tea . |
| 11 | Again , in October 1281 , Edward I wrote to her , saying that she had always striven to keep the peace between Henry III and Louis , and between Philip III and himself . |
| 12 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 13 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 14 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
| 15 | She lied to Dr Wyn , saying that she had wrenched her shoulder , since although there was nothing inherently shameful about noises in the head she did not wish to confide in him . |
| 16 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |
| 17 | Then she took me to the centre by saying that she had asked my husband and had given permission . |
| 18 | Senator Juan Ponce Enrile , leader of the Nacionalista Party , the main opposition party , called for her impeachment , saying that she had violated the Constitution by allowing US forces to stay without a treaty . |
| 19 | She too was saying that she had an urge to go down with her broom and sweep up the these building works . |
| 20 | He did n't say it nastily , he just said that they were all saying that she had thunder thighs , he did n't say I thought , I mean him personally . |
| 21 | One of the girls , today , she wasn' say she was n't sure , but she was saying that she heard that perhaps the exam structure you have to incorporate all three phases of the |
| 22 | Those letters would be bound to point out to Gina how badly she 'd treated him , telling her to reform and to save her marriage if they were religious , or else saying that she deserved it if he got someone else . |
| 23 | Aunt Emily said , ‘ If you read it , dear child , it will take away your fear , ’ and Alexandra , stubbornly remembering Michael Swinton 's saying that she seemed to be working out her own salvation and feeling that the decision to read the journal must be part of that working out , shook her head and sent her needle stabbing in and out of the canvas . |
| 24 | Eve had written a very neat correct letter saying that she accepted the invitation with pleasure . |
| 25 | In the morning , she 'd ask Marie-Christine to take him a note , saying that she 'd had to make other plans . |
| 26 | Saying that she 'd had |
| 27 | Wolfgang fell into the trap and signed the document , whereupon Constanze dramatically tore it up , saying that she trusted him and needed no written assurance of his intentions . |
| 28 | what she 'd collected by saying that she has n't really gone to any |
| 29 | Saying that she hated most of her childhood memories , Penny , now in her late 30s , referred to the five children in the house — including three girls . |
| 30 | I think I 'm right in saying that she drew a very short straw and is the first reading in the Lords of the bill to privatise the railways . |