Example sentences of "say that he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baldirzade and Ismail Belig , in addition to giving information about Molla Yegan 's burial place , say that he died in 878/1473–4 , for which date there appears to be no firm evidence , though equally there is nothing to show it to be improbable . |
| 2 | He responds to us all in different ways , to his sister , Amanda , he 's always smiled at her and we say that he looks at her at her in his cute way . ’ |
| 3 | Wipo , the biographer of the emperor Conrad II of Germany , says that he burst into tears after hearing a sermon delivered to him at his coronation in 1024 . |
| 4 | He says that he seemed like a nice chap . |
| 5 | She says that he thinks of her as Mum . |
| 6 | el-Kefevi likewise says that he came in the reign of Mehmed I and adds " during the decade of the 820s ' , which would mean that Fahreddin Acemi arrived in the early 820s . |
| 7 | Mecdi , in his article on Molla Husrev , says that he went in 877/1472–3 but gives no indication of the date of his return . |
| 8 | If a person goes to the town hall and says that he qualifies for a discount , the authority will need proof . |
| 9 | His mother says that he talked to her about it and she tried to convince him that he was misinterpreting what he had seen and heard , but as far as I can learn John never mentioned it to anyone else until late in life , when telling Dr Schäfer about the thoughts which led him to make his ballet Spuren . |
| 10 | She says that he pushed past her and said he 'd lost somthing in her garden . |
| 11 | He says that he worked at Emma 's request to produce a record of the deeds which touched upon the honour of her and hers , and the oldest surviving manuscript , which is very close to the author 's original , may be the copy she received : it contains a miniature which shows an ecclesiastic presenting a book to a woman while two figures , presumably her sons Harthacnut and Edward , look on . |
| 12 | Steve Chapman says that he comes from the Shennington club and Nigel was a member there … he jokes that mansell was a big an idiot as all of them … breaking in the wrong place and that sort of thing |
| 13 | For him it must be said that he went at once to report the death to authority , and then came back to us and again told the same story . |
| 14 | It was said that he travelled to Europe and established the Merovingian dynasty of kings which ruled France until displaced in 679 AD , by which time the dynasty had become enfeebled . |
| 15 | It is said that he stood before the altar and for a moment the Blade called to him . |
| 16 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 17 | Goff recollects him saying that he felt in danger of being left behind because whilst exciting things were happening in art he was not being allowed to develop . |
| 18 | To be sure , God 's Spirit is at work in the East and everywhere , but that is different from saying that he contributes to beliefs which deny the truth that he has inspired . |
| 19 | But if he lied , saying that he came to Parfois with no felonious intent , and attacked only when he was surprised and frightened , Isambard would have won a better victory . |
| 20 | In the summer of 1905 , Robert Connolly , a groom aged thirty-eight , applied for admission to the casual wards , saying that he came from Wellingborough , and was on his way to London . |
| 21 | The court admitted that it was giving an unusual meaning to the word , for a historian who described the end of Rizzio by saying that he met with a fatal accident in Holyrood Palace would fairly be charged with a misleading statement of fact . |
| 22 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 23 | Clinton spoke in a hoarse voice , saying that he wanted to ‘ bring our people together as never before so that our diversity can be a source of strength in a world that is ever-smaller ’ . |
| 24 | Just before his release from this five-year sentence , he sent a threatening letter to Terry saying that he intended to ‘ get him ’ . |
| 25 | Mr Patten also said that he believed in the validity of the present system for predicting what housing needs will be . |
| 26 | The judge said that he took into account McKie 's age in sentencing him . |
| 27 | He said that he took to writing novels to support himself and his family and to enable him to devote himself to his religious writings and poems . |
| 28 | Graeme said that he ran along the line , and pulled the trolleys off . |
| 29 | He got him to hospital and the doctors said that he lived for 70 minutes , but he was dead by the time we got there . |
| 30 | Yesterday , though , the resilient Dunwoody said that he hopes to be back in action at Ascot on Wednesday . |