Example sentences of "say that [pers pn] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was at her , trying to make her say that she loved him better than she did me . |
| 2 | ‘ They say that he said he would never come again . |
| 3 | Dad says that he thinks he has the answer to my problem but he will have to consult with the Pastor tomorrow . |
| 4 | No one had ever said that they liked him . |
| 5 | Sheldon had become much attached to her during his time at the Lock Hospital and it is said that she asked him to embalm her body after her death , which he did . |
| 6 | She could not have said that she found him dull , because she did not know it , and was conscious only of her own failure , and her misery at her own personal inadequacy quite drowned any sensation of boredom . |
| 7 | Ben Hogan has said that he wished he had learned the importance of left forearm rotation earlier in his career , as it became one of his keys in his later years . |
| 8 | It 's like everything e but th s saying that we had him . |
| 9 | Are you saying that we bundled him down to the waterside and had him hanged ? |
| 10 | I was surprised by the number of people who were saying that they disliked him , and by the degree of bitterness and the spiteful determination that he had to go . |
| 11 | I delivered what was to be my longest speech of the evening , saying that I gathered he was keen to talk about his role , to talk about Gary . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm saying that I think he could have done . ’ |
| 13 | Wolfgang fell into the trap and signed the document , whereupon Constanze dramatically tore it up , saying that she trusted him and needed no written assurance of his intentions . |
| 14 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 15 | McCurbin died of asphyxiation from pressure applied to the neck , but the police who arrested him said that they thought he was faking as he struggled for life . |
| 16 | The C.C. said that they called him in to look at the body . |
| 17 | Oh right , I see when you said that I thought he was going to an army regiment that they put up in Gloucester |
| 18 | It was not so much by what Basil said that I remember him but by what he did . |
| 19 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 20 | NO SNOW fell during the night and at 10.00 , after Erika had run her five kilometres under a dazzling blue sky , Karl ran and said that he thought he rather did that a brief tour of Berlin would be possible and that he would be waiting in the lounge of the Palast at 11.00 ; adding that Paul should meet them at the television Tower at 1.00 |
| 21 | He said that he thought he was being arrested in connection with the fight . |
| 22 | In his office the manager said that he thought he might have a part going , and then looked at Arthur for a long time . |
| 23 | He also said that he thought he and Strach could play in the same team . |
| 24 | Mr Browning , who believes the bronzes were smuggled out of the country and later bought by the galleries , said that he felt he had been ‘ led up the garden path ’ . |
| 25 | Fagin described the hanging in terrifying detail , and said that he hoped he would never have to tell the police about Oliver — and see Oliver with a rope around his neck . |
| 26 | When they announced that Hodge was playing , this Leeds ‘ fan ’ behind me groaned and said that he hoped he 'd have his leg broken ! |
| 27 | Commenting on the incident , Nguza said that it confirmed him in his decision to suspend the conference . |
| 28 | After the cremation , while the few mourners were looking gloomily at the flowers , his uncle 's solicitor , a partner in the Ipswich practice , spoke to Lewis simply to say that he believed he already knew the contents of the will . |
| 29 | Otherwise a very ‘ macho ’ man might feel embarrassed at having to say that he feels he is living as a fragile teenage girl . |
| 30 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |