Example sentences of "said he would [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flier , smiling reassuringly at an old lady , roused by the excitement from her bed , said he would prefer a glass of water . |
| 2 | At one point during the campaign , he said he would appoint a peace envoy to Northern Ireland if elected a controversial idea which drew a sharp response from Ulster Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew . |
| 3 | Shackel became indignant and said he would fetch a magistrate and complain about the Chief Constable 's attitude , which he did . |
| 4 | He said he would make an announcement about his plans on Wednesday . |
| 5 | I rang Winston and he said he would make an enquiry at the Foreign Office . |
| 6 | Mr Churchill said he would welcome a change in the law to steer the market in favour of coal . |
| 7 | Crosby tried to land Porter on loan earlier in the season and the 26-year-old — transfer-listed this week — said he would welcome a return to his home-town club . |
| 8 | One of them said he faced a possible ban from International footie ( playing for France I assume , and any matches the scum have in Europe — nyuk , nyuk ) , the other said he would face a ban from the game — AS A WHOLE . |
| 9 | The health secretary , Kenneth Clarke , said he would examine a proposal to pay people to look after frail elderly relatives instead of putting them in homes . |
| 10 | Keating , who crushed the pro-monarchy conservative opposition in national polls last Saturday , said he would create a panel of eminent Australians to study how the country could become a republic by 2001 . |
| 11 | So Mr Burgreen , doing all that he could , said he would add a civilian to his internal review board . |
| 12 | He said he would like a plant or two of Gale with spleenwort leaves ( i.e. Comptonia peregriaa var. aspleniifolia ) and dried specimens of the male and female plants , having only seen the former . |
| 13 | He said he would seek a meeting with senior planning officers to establish if anything more is known about the company behind the proposal . |
| 14 | ALA housing chairman Pete Challis said he would seek an assurance the Government will renew the Rough Sleeper 's initiative , the scheme to provide 15,000 hostel bed spaces , when it expires next year . |
| 15 | David said he would contact a solicitor to find out what his position was with regard to access to his children . |
| 16 | Coun. Peter Jones ( C ) , a member of the policy and resources committee , said he would propose an amendment to make things easier for the disabled . |
| 17 | ITALY 's prime minister , Giuliano Amato , yesterday said he would call a vote of confidence as at least 26 more people were arrested in a corruption scandal that has forced a cabinet reshuffle . |