Example sentences of "say [conj] he [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 And , second , there is a sentence in Plutarch 's Life of Artaxerxes ( chapter iv ) about the revolt of the younger Cyrus ( for which see p. 184 ) : ‘ some say that he revolted because he was not given enough rations . ’
2 He says that he hopes that whoever buys the site will realise the historical significance of ths site and at the same time maintain the buildings .
3 He says that he hopes that there will be a meeting of minds on how to deal with traffic problems .
4 He also says that he fears that he and his family , as members of the Bengali community , would be in danger of racial harassment if they lived in Carradale House , and this he supports with an affidavit on the subject of such harassment sworn by a former employee of his solicitors .
5 Is that what the Prime Minister means when he says that he believes that Conservatives want to use the national health service ?
6 It is said that he advised that the centre should be incorporated , and a company ( ‘ C.M.C. ’ ) was duly formed on 29 April 1983 .
7 The European Commissioner for the environment has said that he believes that there has been a failure to carry out a proper environmental impact assessment .
8 Pooh only believes what Rabbit says because he believes that Rabbit believes it too .
9 But there was something Forster had said before he died that Delaney had to check out first .
10 I 'm disturbed with what Phil says as he argues that we should trust staff but we would not like them knocking on doors .
11 During 1964 a backbencher asked about the amount of news broadcast by TBC , saying that he thought that the Voice of Kenya broadcast more .
12 And he had tried to be helpful about the blotter , staring at it with almost painful intensity before saying that he thought that the black markings had n't been there when he had last seen the blotter on Monday evening .
13 When I detained him by a greeting , he looked up a little puzzled , saying that he thought that we lived in Cornwall Gardens .
14 Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven .
15 The writer is saying that he understood that the church was not really interested in helping the poor , just in attracting new members to the church for its own glory and ultimate gain .
16 Sir Keith Joseph has recently gone on record as saying that he wished that examiners could be more objective in their assessment of what children know .
17 On the teletext today it had a few words from Fergie saying that he reckoned that the no. of points they need to win the league is 84 .
18 As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed .
19 The right hon. Member for Blaby may not like the idea of a European central bank , but he is clearly on record as saying that he believes that in this country 's economy an independent central bank would be a guarantee against inflation .
20 The problem with the Minister 's logic is that his colleague , the other Under-Secretary of State for Employment , the hon. Member for Wantage ( Mr. Jackson ) has recently gone on record saying that he believes that women should have pay parity with men in accordance with the law .
21 Yeltsin had given a dramatic description of tanks closing in and said that he believed that he had not much time left .
22 UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd on a visit to Turkey on April 21-22 said that he believed that Turkey should be included in the Matutes plan ( the EC 's development programme for the Mediterranean basin ) .
23 He said that he thought that the wife entered into the charge of her own free will but that he would probably not have mentioned the question of undue influence to her at the time she executed the charge .
24 The chief executive of Coats Viyella said that he thought that there were 10,000 jobs at risk in his firm from the Labour party 's proposals for a statutory minimum wage .
25 At a press conference on May 2 President Vaclav Havel said that he thought that racist attacks by groups of skinheads on Romanies , Vietnamese guest workers and other members of racial minorities were being provoked by supporters or agents of the former communist regime , who were also engaging in disinformation about the situation in the country .
26 The Head of Department , however , said that he thought that the effort had been worthwhile and that he could not imagine any other means as effective .
27 He acknowledged that the students may at first find difficulties in adjusting to the Scottish education system , the language , the weather and life in Edinburgh , and said that he hopes that these awards will remind overseas students that the University has confidence in them .
28 Mr. Newman said that he felt that the threatened closure of magistrates courts would mean there is no longer going to be a system of local justice in the country .
29 At a press conference on Aug. 3 , Baker said that he felt that " the commitment to genuine reform is real " .
30 In retrospect he said that he felt that the review had been a good thing for the department .
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