Example sentences of "quoted [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world . |
| 2 | Subsequent reports quoted them as saying that an atmosphere of panic pervaded the town , with a rebel assault expected daily , food running low , and government troops shooting civilians who attempted to flee . |
| 3 | The eve-of-talks optimism of the Sacu president , Geoff Daikin , was not even dented by the state-run television , which quoted him as saying that Sacu would push for the tour at all costs . |
| 4 | Brucan 's additional claim that public opinion was being formed by a one-time Ceausescu collaborator was taken to be a reference to one of the NSF 's most public critics , Octavian Paler , editor of the newspaper Romania Libera , who had published an interview given by Brucan to the Independent which quoted him as saying that only intellectuals were fit to run the country . |
| 5 | Mario Buracchia , the commander of Italian naval forces in the Gulf , resigned on Jan. 30 after the magazine Famiglia Cristiana quoted him as saying that war could have been avoided " with a little more wisdom " and the continuation of the economic embargo . |
| 6 | It quoted him as saying that " if the Iraqis had given a positive response to our call sooner , the situation would be different now " , but also as adding that it had become " evident " that " the USA and its allies are pursuing wider aims than Iraq 's withdrawal from Kuwait " . |
| 7 | Interviewed in the Beirut newspaper An Nahar on Sept. 1 , Aoun called Lebanon 's leaders " marionettes who should be tried for high treason " ; the French magazine Paris Match on Sept. 7 quoted him as saying that the Syrians would only last a year and that he was the future saviour of Lebanon . |
| 8 | A newspaper interview with the very successful American actress Brook Shields quoted her as saying that she constantly worries ‘ that I 'm not pretty enough , that I 'm too fat , that I 'm not smart enough and that I 'm not a good enough actress ’ . |