Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] said they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Germany 's employer , trade and industry associations said they had formed a committee to fight xenophobia , which is now said to be putting off foreigners from investing in the country 's impoverished East . |
| 2 | College officials said they could not recall any previous speaker receiving such an enthusiastic welcome . |
| 3 | It was the sort of set Haute Epoque specialist dealers said they never expected to see again in their lifetimes . |
| 4 | According to the survey , one-third of home helps said they had received no training at all . |
| 5 | Home helps said they were finding it difficult to cope with the extra responsibility . |
| 6 | Focus groups said they would pay more taxes if the cost of the Federal machine was cut , and so Clinton announces with great fanfares a 25 per cent cut in White House staff . |
| 7 | But in a recent annual survey of 150 top UK advertisers , conducted by sponsorship consultants Granard Rowland , part of Saatchis , 50 per cent of marketing directors said they believed sponsors should influence programme content . |
| 8 | This could be because , in flexibility of choice , these two credit types are closer to using cash ; 17 per cent of cash buyers said they had spent less than expected , compared with only 6 per cent with other types of credit ( see Appendix 1 , Table 25 ) . |
| 9 | Health and safety cour training courses according to these reports these are poorly attended with a majority below forty percent but more worrying than that is that nearly half of G M B safety reps said they 'd not received a copy of the safety rep 's kits . |
| 10 | Only 14 per cent of registration officers said they had taken positive action to get information to the half million people in homes or hostels . |
| 11 | In a similar survey , Welsh hill farmers said they lost , on average , one lamb to a fox every two years . |
| 12 | But British Transport Police said they were satisfied the rest would leave shortly . |
| 13 | On marketing , while branch managers said they believed interest rates were the biggest attraction to new customers , for the customers the key was close proximity to a branch . |
| 14 | Interior ministry sources said they suspected ultra-rightwing groups were responsible for the murder . |
| 15 | For example , 80% of female personal service workers said they could not design and plan important parts of their work ; 96% said they could not decide their starting and finishing times ; and 63 % said they could not initiate new tasks during their work . |
| 16 | Some taxi firms said they did not want blood in their cars . |
| 17 | It was only in the case of lonely clients that the development officers said they thought the person would be happier in an institution . |
| 18 | AN election candidate was last night accused of abusing democracy after some of the people who signed his nomination papers said they were not told he was standing for the far-Right British National Party . |
| 19 | In their encampment in the square , the hunger strikers said they would continue their protest against a new administration they describe as merely the old regime under a different name . |
| 20 | Hundreds of television employees said they would strike if prevented from reporting the demonstration . |
| 21 | Hundreds of television employees said they would strike if prevented from reporting the demonstration . |
| 22 | Darlington borough council , Wear Valley and Sedgefield district councils said they were worst hit by the spending limits . |
| 23 | She had assumed they were going to his friend 's colourful flat but they had been on the motorway for several miles and the road signs said they were travelling north . |
| 24 | Many retailing organizations said they gave fixed-term contracts to seasonal workers brought in to cope with the Christmas peak . |
| 25 | Health union negotiators said they would refuse to accept the award for Britain 's 600,000 nurses , midwives and health visitors . |
| 26 | But last night union officials said they were optimistic that negotiations could soon re-start to resolve the dispute . |
| 27 | Jailed with her were Jeremy Hoskins , 32 , from Wells , Somerset , the man police said they saw unload nearly 300lb of hashish from her yacht , and George Helaine , a Belgian , accused of organising the shipment from Morocco . |
| 28 | Not one of the many East Berliners I spoke to at several crossing points said they meant to stay in the West . |
| 29 | Younger cohabiting men said they might have enough sex with their girlfriends , but would ideally like more sexual partners . |
| 30 | As a result of the increase , some banks and building societies said they expected to raise mortgage rates by between 1 and 1.5 per cent , probably from 1 November . |