Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will also gather information on why individuals join groups ( in defiance of the free rider prediction that says that collective action is illogical ) . |
| 2 | There is a mathematical theorem that says that any theory that obeys quantum mechanics and relativity must always obey the combined symmetry CPT . |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Londonderry , East quoted the experts waste recovery association and said that the first priority should be waste minimisation . |
| 4 | A joyful Lou called Melissa to thank her for her kindness and to say that Rick was now reconciled with his parents . |
| 5 | During talks with former leaders Noboru Takeshita and Shintaro Abe and with leading industrial figures , Zou promised to improve further the domestic environment for foreign investment and said that China 's repayment of its foreign debt was guaranteed , adding that the lifting of martial law on Jan. 11 was a sign of stability . |
| 6 | She 's always nervously brushing the hair out of her eyes and saying that she ca n't come out with Howard because she has to go and see a client . |
| 7 | He just sat there jiggling his bloody spectacles and saying that as far as he knew it was n't . ’ |
| 8 | Amid mounting criticism of the French government 's failure to speak out against the killings , French Foreign Ministry spokesman Daniel Bernard on Jan. 13 condemned the attacks on the opposition and said that France would only continue to support the government of President Idriss Déby if he pressed ahead with democratization . |
| 9 | Layfield ( 1976 ) criticised this confusion and said that the centre must make up its mind whether it wanted to adopt a centralist or localist view . |
| 10 | Moreover since he did not wish to have preying on his mind any malice or grudge by reason of which his father might later be offended , he revealed that he had pledged himself to support the barons of Aquitaine against his brother Richard and said that he had done this because Richard had fortified the castle of Clairvaux though it really belonged to the Angevin patrimony which he should inherit from his father . " |
| 11 | He also indicated that he had disagreed with other members of the government on the running of the education department and said that he had been " gradually marginalized within the government " . |
| 12 | England came away from Australia shaking their heads and saying that it was impossible to defend against those moves . |
| 13 | Seminar participants accused international journals of attracting all the best papers from Indian authors and said that the resulting ‘ paper drain ’ ( besides the brain drain , of course ) deprives Indian medical journals of material that is rightfully theirs . |
| 14 | Could you offer her a cup of tea and say that I 'll be er about fifteen minutes or so ? |
| 15 | He remembered waking up in the middle of the night , and then he remembered Miss Tomm walking into the dormitory and saying that the headmaster wanted to see him and Cartwright saying : " Eee , what 's Fleming done ? " |
| 16 | In evidence to the UK House of Commons select committee on foreign affairs on July 11 , 1990 , Francis Maude , then a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with special responsibilities for Hong Kong , stated that with regard to the influx of Vietnamese " boat people " into the colony , he did not exclude mandatory repatriation in future and said that the voluntary scheme was working well . |
| 17 | He rang the managing director of Downton and said that if the other two players did n't have their contracts cancelled immediately he and Mary-Ann would call a Press Conference , tear up their contracts with his company , and tell the world 's Press why . |
| 18 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 19 | Some are inclined to shrug their shoulders and say that Thailand , like an unruly adolescent , is just ‘ going through a phase ’ . |
| 20 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 21 | Meanwhile Sawyer announced the appointment of six Cabinet ministers to his interim administration and said that it did not intend to stay in power for more than a year . |
| 22 | It 's increasingly difficult for the voluntary sector to make provision of this kind , to offer those opportunities without proper partnership with the state , so I do n't actually accept if you 're posing an alternative and saying that it 's either or , I do n't think that 's correct . |
| 23 | In December the joint forestry committee of Indonesia and Malaysia called for retaliatory action and said that it was " unfair " for Western environmentalists to blame Association of South East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) countries for global problems , and said that Indonesia and Malaysia had both taken steps " to sustain forest resources " . |
| 24 | He denounced function as an irrelevance and said that we needed to set up a structure . |
| 25 | A Johnson Matthey spokesman dismissed any suggestion of a boardoom rift and said that the two departures were ‘ not particularly connected ’ . |
| 26 | A Johnson Matthey spokesman dismissed any suggestion of a boardoom rift and said that the two departures were ‘ not particularly connected ’ . |
| 27 | In his first interview with American television , President Saddam Hussein told C B S News that he did n't want war with the west , but he claimed that God was on his side and said that Iraq would come out victorious in any conflict . |
| 28 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 29 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 30 | At an April 18 press conference in London , Hamdi declined to describe the crisis as a " famine " — a point of contention with donor countries — but he did go further than previous official statements in referring to the need for emergency aid and saying that the UN World Food Programme had a free mandate to organize the operation . |