Example sentences of "[verb] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without it doctors said she 'd only live till she was about eleven or twelve . |
| 2 | I do n't know said the pendulum ! |
| 3 | I do n't want to know , I wo n't know said Sally as she put her hands put out her hands as if she was fending Daryl off , I hate you Daryl Rivers , you with , you with your mother who comes to see you often , sends you things and writes you long letters and comes to see you . |
| 4 | Sir Denys said the two new companies would each pay a dividend of not less than 27.5p each in 1993 . |
| 5 | Sven Hjerson has said it . ’ |
| 6 | The note has said simply : Merci pour Schubert . |
| 7 | The Parnham Trophy is open to both amateurs and professionals : as John Makepeace has said himself , ‘ the amateur can so often teach the professionals a thing or two ! ’ |
| 8 | However the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has said that less than one per cent of all tropical timber brought into Britain is managed sustainably . |
| 9 | He tacks on tendentious continuations to things Raskolnikov has said . |
| 10 | Nicolas Tredell has said of some New Accents contributors , ‘ despite their ostensible Gallic sympathies , they crash down on French jouissance like a ceiling-full of cold showers . ’ |
| 11 | Ferranti has said that its revised net worth will have to be reduced by £185m forcing the company to abandon the final dividend payment for the year to March 1989 . |
| 12 | Although not exactly stuck for words , nothing that he has said has yet entered the language . |
| 13 | Mrs Aquino has said she is ‘ keeping her options open ’ on whether to renew the lease , but diplomats say the US is privately confident her administration will agree to a five-to 10-year extension . |
| 14 | But the Government has said public money will not be available for at least 15 years . |
| 15 | Keith Cresswell , the Richmond secretary , has said that his club will not allow the matter to be swept under the carpet . |
| 16 | Dick Hern , who announced the decision yesterday , would not elaborate on the reason for choosing the easier option of the Champion Stakes , but Willie Carson , Nashwan 's rider , has said he would be loathe to try the horse at Longchamp again . |
| 17 | He has said that the £15m on offer was either too little or too much — too little to pacify the bankers if Eagle was in trouble but if the group could be turned around a recapitalisation would not be needed . |
| 18 | Mrs Aquino has said she will bow to its decision but is confident it will again rule in her favour . |
| 19 | The congress , which will be attended by up to 2,000 delegates , is intended to re-make the Party in a ‘ European ’ image , as Party spokesman Jan Bisztyga has said . |
| 20 | The group has said the write-off against its reserves after tax relief will have to be £185m . |
| 21 | Shares worthless : The Inland Revenue has said that ordinary and preference shares of Sound Diffusion are of ‘ negligible value ’ for taxation purposes . |
| 22 | The party 's policy review has said that Muslims and other minority religious groups should be entitled to voluntary-aided schools ( for which nearly all the costs come from public funds ) provided they follow the national curriculum . |
| 23 | The company is controlled by a US group that is up for sale and has said it wants to sell AMI . |
| 24 | The British Medical Association has said that if the legislation does require authorities to keep to drug budgets , the association will see that as a cash limit and cry ‘ foul ’ after accepting assurances from Mr Clarke last week that budgets would not operate as cash limits . |
| 25 | These were underlined yesterday by the League 's decision to bar Owen Oyston , the radio station owner who has said he would be willing to back Knighton 's offer , from an interest in United . |
| 26 | Craven has said that Welsh players will still be chased by South Africa in spite of this vote , but the WRU is confident that they have shut off the avenue to the Republic . |
| 27 | Since the socialist government has said that it intends to pass this year 's defence bill anyway , it was the duty of the opposition to move a vote of no confidence . |
| 28 | The question is how this expansion can be paid for , given that the new Secretary of State has said quite candidly that his present view is that higher education can not expect a higher share of public spending than it currently receives . |
| 29 | South Africa has said it expects the UN to reduce its 4,000-strong military presence once the poll is over and a Constituent Assembly has been elected to draft a new constitution . |
| 30 | The new Polish manager , Andrzej Strejau , has said he noted faults in Terry Butcher 's game during the goalless draw in Sweden last month . |