Example sentences of "[conj] he said [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David showed prudence in doing the things committed to him by Saul ; Job exemplified simplicity ( in the good sense ) for it was said of him that he was a simple man ; Solomon , in Proverbs , highlighted patience , where he said that a prince is made mellow by patience . |
| 2 | At the same time he said that new rules would be drawn up on the ownership of property , in preparation for the privatization of numerous state enterprises ; in this context he demanded a cut in bank interest rates , from a typical level of 50 per cent to around 20 per cent , so as to encourage private investment in industry , where he said that productivity had fallen by 10 per cent since the start of the year . |
| 3 | This was explained by Lord Diplock in Pioneer Shipping Ltd v BTP Tioxide Ltd , AC 1982 724 at 736 , where he said that the English system treated the construction of written agreements as questions of law because of the legacy of trial by juries who might not all be literate . |
| 4 | He did say that he disagreed with the choice of John Hill 's ‘ Karen ’ for first prize in the PORTRAIT section , he reckoned that it was quite ordinary and not up to John Hill 's normally high standard , although he said that John Hill 's first and second prizes in the ARCHITECTURAL/BUILDINGS/RECORD were very well deserved and entirely right . |
| 5 | We had none of those commitments from the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East , although he said that education and training would be key priorities . |
| 6 | Does he recall that he said that if the business community took the first step he and the police would give it whatever support and back-up it needed ? |
| 7 | Peter Rogers , who produced all the movies , told me that he said that as long as he had enough money to keep himself and his mother he was happy . |
| 8 | What bothered me mo well wha one of the things that bothers me is the fact that he said that he would n't like to do hospital chaplaincy because he would n't like to go visiting because he 's got no small talk . |
| 9 | Oh yeah I mean you take now the erm , you could say nineteen twenty six bloke , I remember an old union bloke , he was on the railway and er , when they cleaned the fire out , cos he used to get all the out , and er these here firemen on cool it with a that 's when they first started to nationalize the docks and he said well , they er , he said waste that he said when nationalization come in , well there was a lot more wasted then after that . |
| 10 | But that was one case that he said and then he said it was getting quite dark by that time when the boat came in it was quite dark . |
| 11 | He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off ! |
| 12 | ‘ So he said that if he caught Springsteen in his back garden again , he would heave a half-brick at him . |
| 13 | So he said erm I said to the woman I went to the court this morning so he said when you explain to me he said I 've got money in my pockets cos I borrowed it from dad tha he said I owed sixty two pound so he said I said to the woman in the court how can I pay this the sixty two pounds when you 've frozen my account ? |
| 14 | but he 's , he give me a a print out , he said well here 's your print out look so he said as soon as |
| 15 | and years ago Doctor said to me if you start to lose weight and y and y and I said if you 're you 're a plump girl so he said if you start to lose weight and you ca n't understand why try to put some on he said |
| 16 | Yeah , but , no Anton had to make a phone call anyway and he said while he was on the phone |
| 17 | ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high . |
| 18 | Carl from upstairs got arrested too , and he said that Ibrahim was screaming all night in the room next to him in the prison , and when they opened the door in the morning , he 'd scratched all the skin off of his face . |
| 19 | And he said that the video was ‘ just a drop in the bucket of Neighbours memorabilia ’ . |
| 20 | He told me about Piero della Francesca 's mysterious Flagellation in the Ducal palace in Urbino , and he said that it was ‘ probably the greatest small picture in the world ’ , a line which I was able to use in a novel set in Tuscany . |
| 21 | There were a lot of dots and squiggles and he said that it was a picture of the crocodile eating Captain Hook . |
| 22 | And he said that I had perceived correctly , that he might do nothing without my goodwill which he would strive to gain , if I would allow it . |
| 23 | Boullee was the architect of the sublime , and he said that there should be poetry in architecture , and that men should be moved emotionally by it as they would be by a poem . |
| 24 | I explained this last point to one witch and he said that the same could be said for Christianity . |
| 25 | The season was short for tourists in Green 's time and he said that the expensively equipped inns made a frugal living in the two months of the year when they were busy , while for the rest of the year , no one came . |
| 26 | And he said that , since 1965 when the science Research Council took over the telescope , the observatory has been collaborating more closely with university researchers . |
| 27 | Hampshire county councillor Peter Maxwell was at the meeting and he said that the community charge had been set at £237 , which is £33 below the government guideline . |
| 28 | I remember reading an interview with Gus Dudgeon , who did the production on the Bluesbreakers ‘ Beano ’ album , and he said that you guys , and Eric in particular , gave him nightmares because it was so loud ! |
| 29 | I was talking to that presenter of that alternative-politics programme — what 's his name ? — and he said that he 'd got annoyed with a colleague because she criticized his pink bow-tie . |
| 30 | One man had asked him what his job was and he said that he was an author . |