Example sentences of "[art] [noun] said [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a spokesman for the board said they could no longer afford the costs of the small schools and the transfer charges were the lesser of the two . |
| 2 | The tiler said it could n't be done . |
| 3 | Today , the department said they could n't answer that until they review the case . |
| 4 | But the priest said she could not live till morning , so I could not leave her . ’ |
| 5 | Later , the girl said she could n't remember how long she was trapped . |
| 6 | The boss said we could n't go outside because employment inspectors would catch us , and so everyone was fed and slept in the factory . |
| 7 | The bailiff said he could n't use it . |
| 8 | GREEN SHOOTS of recovery were what the Chancellor said he could see last year , but the rest of us are still waiting for them . |
| 9 | Representatives at the conference said they could n't give any details . |
| 10 | Although the CEGB said it could happily live with these new limits , the situation at Sellafield , where radiation doses were much higher , was far less certain . |
| 11 | And if the lad said he could n't borrow it . |
| 12 | In the 1911 census , the most recent complete record of Gaelic-speaking , only 2% of the population said they could speak the language . |
| 13 | But the minister 's travels between Moscow and Baghdad , by way of Tehran , and back again , partly overland since the Americans said they could not guarantee his safety in Iraqi airspace , seemed dilatory . |
| 14 | A fire brigade spokesman said they had fed the name of the compound into a computer and the print-out said it could be toxic if it caught fire . |
| 15 | The writing was on the wall last year when the Government said it could not continue funding . |
| 16 | And there was a big and eh , the farmer said I could have all of this , his wife wanted to , so I , I gathered amount towards wife . |
| 17 | But the time came when he reached the age when the farmer had to pay sixpence a week for his insurance stamp , and he was sent back home because the man said he could n't afford it . |
| 18 | ‘ The doctor said it could have happened at any time . |
| 19 | ‘ The police said they could not guarantee the safety of our officers or ensure public order was maintained , ’ said a spokesman from the firm . |
| 20 | Auctioneer Jean-Claude Binoche handling the sale said he could have raised FFr300 million had international buyers been involved . |
| 21 | Most of the children said they could n't remember any bits they liked ; eventually , with much prompting and nagging , everyone came up with something . |
| 22 | By lowering the nitrogen content , the company said it could cut the amount of nitrogen deposited on the land by pigs by 23 per cent . |
| 23 | The company said it could no longer afford the £320,000 membership fee and claimed open systems standards were widely enough accepted for it to leave . |
| 24 | The patient said he could feel a surge of energy run through his body ‘ like a tingling sensation ’ . |
| 25 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
| 26 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
| 27 | Even the nurse said she could see it . |
| 28 | The presenter said she could only recall a few people , and volunteered the story of David Parkin throwing a glass of wine at his wife and how she had watched Maggie Parkin stalk out of the room trying to pretend that nothing had happened . |
| 29 | But nasty rumours at the time said she could have been helped in . |
| 30 | A spokesman said they could have been trying to race the MG . |