Example sentences of "[conj] he says that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well Else read out this bit from a book by Billy Graham , The Secret of 'Appiness it 's called , where 'e says that a man told 'im 'e only took a bath once a week , and Billy Graham told 'im there was something wrong with 'is purity of heart . ’ |
| 2 | One hopes that reading it may have good effects , of the kind described by Wordsworth in the 1800 Preface , or more succinctly summed up by Lewis in the conclusion to An Experiment in Criticism , where he says that literature heals the wound without undermining the privilege of individuality . |
| 3 | I quote there a sonnet by him , where he says that with him it is the language which creates the poetry . |
| 4 | He does n't seem to be embarrassed by anything , except when you try to provoke him by telling him that surely he must thump his desk once in a while , or that although he says that a record company exists ‘ to guide your artists ’ most of them must hate him at some point . |
| 5 | Although he says that he intends to keep an open mind , Montagnier has criticized the government in the past for not supporting more research outside the mainstream and for not paying more attention to Africa . |
| 6 | It is true that he says that he has checked " difficult readings " against the Oxford text ( p. 9 ) . |
| 7 | Hi Mike , so he says that I 've got to say hello to you , alright |
| 8 | Qaddafi says that nations are likely to have a greater proportion of written members than tribes generally do ( III , ‘ Merits of the tribe ’ , ‘ The nation ’ ) ; and he says that shared experience can forge a common solidarity , a sense of belonging . |
| 9 | And he says that the European Commission , which has been trying to break down trade barriers in pharmaceuticals since 1975 backs him . |
| 10 | And he says that the company has tried , since 1980 , to get approval from the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate to slacken the regulations on how much radioactivity is allowed on clothing . |
| 11 | A friend of mine in Holland runs a psycho-geriatric hospital and he says that approximately twenty per cent of the patients sent to him suffering from seeming senility , i.e. confusion , some incontinence , and anxiety attacks , are in fact suffering from prolonged overdoses of tea . |
| 12 | I met Herman at the FitzGeralds ’ [ the writer Kevin FitzGerald and his wife Janet — the latter had been Herman 's producer on the occasions when he broadcast on Woman 's Hour ] , and he says that there is less of Ivy every time he sees her . |
| 13 | And he says that the registers will not just impact on companies owning the land included . |
| 14 | He has been careful to hide most of its nine-storey bulk underground , which suits its other use , as the town library , and he says that the gallery courtyard , with generous cascading staircases linking all the public levels , has been inspired by the hill towns of the region , with their steps and terraces . |
| 15 | My husband is a minister and an artist and he says that the cannon of the female figure is various and he sees beauty in all types |
| 16 | Anyway , she talked to her doctor about it , unbearably , and he says that this is quite a common male reaction to pregnancy . |
| 17 | And he says that the incinerator has broken down . " |
| 18 | This criticism does n't appear to worry him , and he says that the proof is in the pudding , patting his film case . |
| 19 | On the local front , Peter Spratt refers to the company 's recent work on behalf of Mace , and he says that there is early evidence that the Mace ‘ Gerry Anderson ’ campaign is conveying something of the pleasure of grocery shopping , as well as making an important statement about branded merchandise and value for money . |
| 20 | Saw Dennis Law on T V , and he says that when he first played against Danny , he kicked him all round , all , all over the park . |
| 21 | He was the one that got me pregnant and he says that I ca n't come home at all now and I phoned the hospital , yes , and they said that come in and if I go in then you 're going to arrest me and then you 'll just call my dad like you always have done every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 22 | is about the expected wage , and he says that people erm , base their decision , a rational mind would base his decision on erm , probability of getting a job times the erm , urban wage rate , equals the expected rate , wage rate , and he 's saying that , because urban wage rates are so much higher , erm , that unemployment rate can also be quite high , and the expected gains can still be positive . |
| 23 | Now I , I think that , you know , if Mr 's got any complaints about that , and he says that that is n't privileged , well I think he can only blame his own administration as well as anybody else 's . |
| 24 | and he says that he used to used to trap them . |
| 25 | And he says that experience has helped him understand other 's disabilities . |
| 26 | Fossils fascinate him too , and he says that he might even look to a career in palaeontology . |
| 27 | Well here 's the Director General of Fair Trading , and this is someone who 's had quite a bit of experience on this , Sir Gordon Borey and he says that motorists should ensure that any cover they buy is in the form of an individual insurance policy in their name . |
| 28 | Even as a child , Russell describes himself as having found this intellectual , religious background as intolerable , and he says that he spent endless hours meditating on the supposed rational grounds for Christianity . |
| 29 | But he says that he now has an Olivetti ‘ spelling disk ’ that holds 80 000 words and space For another 30 000 . |
| 30 | I 'd like my fiancé to do the traditional thing and ask my father for his permission to marry me , but he says that no one does this any more . |