Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last spring he had said , |
| 2 | When they said he could n't have a parrot he 'd said ‘ Well , mice , then , white ones , ’ but his Dad had said he could n't have them either . |
| 3 | When he left Odd-Knut told us he was Lappish , and that when asked if the trail to our campsite was piled high with snow he had said yes it was , but that he would break it for us if we were willing to pay . |
| 4 | As Robert was trying to remember whether that was the college he had said he had attended , Mr Malik went over to the far wall and began to pin up the league table of exam results . |
| 5 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
| 6 | ( A famous actor interviewed recently on the radio said that , when he had learned his part in a play , he did not just know the words he had to say but where the new paragraphs came and when he had to turn the page of the script . |
| 7 | ‘ He buys me panties , bras and garter belts that are really sexy , ’ she said before going on to reveal , ‘ When I was designing underwear he kept saying , ‘ Make sure there are some sexy bits . ’ ’ |
| 8 | tight trousers he kept saying . |
| 9 | There was something of importance he wished to say that would affect them all . |
| 10 | And er would have erm perceived that he was n't greatly hampered by it , but once you 've got a surgeon who is going to get a fat fee he did say to him are you sure you want this done |
| 11 | His wanting the wedding-dress was an excuse for saying all the things he 'd said . |
| 12 | The terrible things he 'd said still haunted her . |
| 13 | She still went cold inside when she remembered the things he 'd said . |
| 14 | His behaviour , the things he 'd said , trying with her new knowledge of him to find flaws in his reasoning , and then wondered drearily why she bothered . |
| 15 | The worst part lay in facing up to the fact that some of the things he 'd said were true , much as she might try to deny it . |
| 16 | The things he 'd said , the things she 'd said … it had all gone round and round inside her head a hundred times . |
| 17 | She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before . |
| 18 | Until , in the end , Carrie began to think she must have made it all up , that she had just dreamed all those things he had said . |
| 19 | The row that followed had left her deeply shaken , as much at her own blindness to the kind of man he really was as by the dreadful things he had said . |
| 20 | Before , on the landing , the things he had said to her , thought of her … |
| 21 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 22 | And memory , too , came crowding back , recalling the harsh things he had said with no sign of regret or subsequent apology . |
| 23 | But there were obviously still more things he had to say . |
| 24 | By then Cameron 's mind was rousing itself from shock , there were many things he wanted to say to James , but the moment they stepped down under the massive archway of the prison they were hustled in opposite directions . |
| 25 | ‘ They break the rules because Bawden cares less for rules than for the things he has to say about the feel of a summer morning , the watery sunshine of an April afternoon , or the flurry of a February snowstorm . ’ |
| 26 | There was a psalm he wanted to say before he went , but he could only remember the beginning of it , so he repeated the words over and over again : " Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee , O Lord : Lord hear my voice … " |
| 27 | Earlier on in the same piece of writing , in the same letter to the Philippians he had said that for him to die was gain . |
| 28 | The place for the people of Dynmouth he 'd said , was in their coffins . |
| 29 | As he disappears behind a safety curtain of blue smoke he starts to say something , but he coughs on the smoke . |
| 30 | On this aspect of his collection he has said : ‘ Within this field , I try to obtain beautifully bound copies that belonged to a royal library , to a prince , or to a famous bibliophile . |