Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had preached a sermon in which he had said these words : ‘ It is dangerous to be a Christian in our nation . |
| 2 | Before the originating summons was served upon the mother the father had not made her aware of his intention to ‘ go back ’ upon his letter of 23 September 1991 in which he had said that he did not intend to seek to have the children returned to Australia . |
| 3 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 4 | And ‘ Some would say I lived alone ’ : I remembered the scarcely concealed contempt with which he had said that . |
| 5 | The report also drew attention to a recent interview given by a Vice-President , Seyed Ataollah Mohajerani , to the Iranian news agency IRNA in which he had said " because the enemy has nuclear facilities , the Moslem states too should be equipped with the same capacity " . |
| 6 | She repeated Miguel 's words , which he had said to her only moments before . |
| 7 | The former economics professor conceded that his plan to replace six indirect taxes with a 15 per cent goods and services tax ( GST ) , which he had said was essential to make Australia competitive , had been unpopular . |
| 8 | The immunities which he does say the Director is wrongfully seeking to infringe are the second and third in the list , which protect the citizen from being compelled to answer questions on pain of punishment ; and these are not concerned specifically with the question whether the citizen has or has not been charged with an offence . |
| 9 | A pewter pot and clean cups and saucers were on the table , and there was a rag mat in front of Paddy 's chair which he 'd said he had carried on his back from Hungerford Market . |
| 10 | In the house which their son had accused them of boringly christening Sweetlea the Dasses continued the lives which he 'd said were boring also . |
| 11 | But the BBC was confused last night over Birt 's comments to a Sunday Times journalist in America , in which he appeared to say that Eldorado would not survive under his tenure as director general . |
| 12 | In this case , the Secretary of State has today issued a public statement disputing various parts of the report in The Independent and he has sought to quote from other aspects of the internal review which he has said is so far confidential . |
| 13 | That is the only case of the thousands of cases that I have raised with him to which he has said yes . |
| 14 | Not fooling me do you mind mind you he does say mama now when he 's moaning , it 's definitely mama , he says now , if he wants something , mama , er , er , mama |
| 15 | He watched her thinking that as he spoke , and then he saw everything he 'd said being summarily dismissed . |
| 16 | Despite everything he 'd said to the contrary , he might retain tender feelings for Doreen , and the fear of this caused jealousy to writhe and twist in Lucy 's mind until her face became pale and her hands shook . |
| 17 | Everything he had said was the truth , and against her will , soft tears slid down her cheeks . |
| 18 | ‘ Certainly promises were made when Michael Knighton came to the club and doubts have now been cast on his ability to fulfil these , but if he does everything he has said who is to complain ? ’ |
| 19 | There was something he feared to say yet needed to confide . |
| 20 | They burnt on occasion a couple of Popes , or perhaps the same Pope twice ; it was n't anti-Catholicism , teenage daughters just objected to something he had said . |
| 21 | One of Dana 's reactions was very characteristic : he bent double with laughter at something he had said that made all the others laugh , too . |
| 22 | Something he had said or somebody had said , something … |
| 23 | He announced this in English , an explanation of something he had said that Ward had not understood . |
| 24 | Every time she shouted at him or reacted to something he had said , it seemed to reveal something she had never meant to let him see . |
| 25 | Rebecca was smiling , responding to something he had said . |
| 26 | Of course Cathy Carne was being difficult , already there had been an outburst over something he had said . |
| 27 | ‘ Listen , ’ Francis 's tone sharpened ; he 'd remembered something he had to say . |
| 28 | I thought back to something he 'd said earlier . |
| 29 | It was n't what I wanted — even then I did n't feel it was right to get Ebert thrown out of the force for something he 'd said in a heated moment . |
| 30 | In particular situations the speech of , say , an academic , particularly if he is saying something he has said or thought about before , may have a great deal in common with written language forms . |