Example sentences of "say that [pers pn] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It quoted a Polish couple who arrived in Hungary yesterday as saying that they were in a large shop on the main square when two or three thousand people began chanting anti-Ceausescu slogans outside . |
| 2 | The DTI objected to both the picture of Gazza and the reference to Armstrong 's suicide , saying that they were in bad taste . |
| 3 | Some gave him their life history , then came round to saying that they were in bed , in the back of the villa , in the bath , already gone to work . |
| 4 | ICI welcomed the new limits , saying that they were in line with its own aim of cutting discharges by half by 1995 . |
| 5 | Only two per cent said that they were at all dissatisfied with the arrangement : to put this in perspective , about ten per cent of buyers ( credit or cash ) were prepared to admit to being dissatisfied in some way with the goods they had bought . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , despite having thus declared its relative impotence , more than three-quarters of the teachers who had seen the booklet said that they were in favour of self-evaluation schemes of this kind . |
| 7 | Now , just over two years ago , when it was first mooted that the Rockhill site would become a permanent gipsy site , we did then erm conduct erm interviews in the town , and we interviewed something like two and a half thousand people , of which ninety five per cent said that they were against a site in that particular place . |
| 8 | Well David said that we were at the end , everyone believed that they were that the time has come that we was at the end of the world . |
| 9 | That waitress just came over and said that we were in love . ’ |
| 10 | You said that you were in operational control . |