Example sentences of "said [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham Greene , for example , said that he wrote The Confidential Agent in record time under the influence of benzedrine . |
| 2 | An old man with only one eye said that he saw the Virgin Mary standing behind Gabriel , dressed in purple and green . |
| 3 | I asked Gennaro how he came by the letter and he merely said that he knew the right people to approach . |
| 4 | Michael Jopling , standing just two feet away as the tale unwound , said that he knew the feeling . |
| 5 | The Minister said that he understood the points that we were making and would undertake a close examination to find out what information could be made available . |
| 6 | He said that he thought the attack arose out of a personal dispute . |
| 7 | He said that he thought the proposal could well be what they wanted and promised a definite decision within two days . |
| 8 | The Shah said that he thought the US was " perhaps spending too much in other countries such as Vietnam although he recognized that was important . |
| 9 | Ever fair-spoken , Malekith said that he desired the kingship not for himself but in honour of the memory of his father . |
| 10 | On a more positive note , I remind the House that my right hon. Friend said that he sought the redirection of money and that available funds should be much more centred on the environment . |
| 11 | A United Kingdom Foreign Office spokesman welcomed the development and said that he expected the European Communities ( EC ) to move " swiftly " to lift its bans on the import of South African iron , steel and of gold coins . |
| 12 | Akashi , during a visit to Japan on March 11 , said that he expected the Japanese government to contribute a third of UNTAC 's estimated total cost of US$1,900 million . |
| 13 | In his speech at the opening Tom Motherwell , director of Wood Group Gas Turbines , said that he felt the expansion was an important move for the Company . |
| 14 | He said that he respected the views of his colleagues at SO , but added that they obviously had taken their decision on the information they had , while the SSO was still in the process of getting information from the management about the proposal . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister said that he had the resignation of his Cabinet in his pocket , but the King replied that he trusted there was no question of the Prime Minister 's resignation : the leaders of the three Parties must get together and come to some arrangement . |
| 16 | Shamir said that he regretted the US decision , but that Israel could not , under any circumstances , " go along with the principle that Jews have no right to live in this or that part of Greater Israel " . |
| 17 | After reviewing the procedure which had been in force since 1983 , he referred to the decision of the Divisional Court in Ex parte Handscomb and said that he accepted the conclusion of that court : ‘ that there are strong arguments for carrying out this consultation exercise as soon as practicable following the imposition of a discretionary life sentence . ’ |
| 18 | Now the point about this measure is how will the Secretary of State for home affairs , respond to this proposal because this is a re-run , this ten minute ruled bill , of the bill that I introduced last year under the private members bill procedure in which the er junior minister that is currently at the despatch box , said that he accepted the principals of seeking to achieve full registration but felt that the measure itself was premature , premature in that the Home Office were investigating er numbers and matters concerned with the electoral registration and electoral provision , arising from experience at the last general election but I think it was beginning to be accepted that the poll tax had had a serious impact upon the electoral register although there were many other er elements that provided great difficulty . |
| 19 | The hon. Member for Gordon ( Mr. Bruce ) said that he met the consortium today . |
| 20 | Mr Simpson said that he rejected the footage , which purported to depict ‘ the greatest single-day defeat for Soviet troops since World War II ’ , as untrustworthy after reviewing it frame by frame . |
| 21 | Speaking at a rally in Budapest , the Hungarian Prime Minister , Jozsef Antall said that he condemned the treaty " historically speaking " , but noted that Hungary had signed the 1975 Helsinki Final Act renouncing the violent changing of frontiers . |
| 22 | Rev Eric Shegog , Director of Communication for the Church of England , said that he hoped the working party would be able to report back in the autumn of 1992 . |
| 23 | Martin Lee , W H Smith product group manager for adult hardback and paperback books , said that he hoped the promotion would become an annual event . |
| 24 | Looking ahead , Mr Jordan said that he hoped the Chancellor would at least decide to retain the 40 per cent capital allowance in the autumn budget . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman said that he suppports the wish of the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) for a good environmental assessment . |
| 26 | But if we study the use of religious language in Wordsworth 's poems between 1798 and 1820 we see a gradual change from what might be meant metaphorically or ‘ poetically ’ ( Wordsworth said that he employed the pre-existence theme in the Immortality Ode ‘ as a Poet ’ ) towards language that is used literally and in an orthodox Christian sense . |
| 27 | Branson himself said that he welcomed the ruling , if it accepted that the fare proposals were predatory , but that he was ‘ obviously disturbed ’ if the decision had been taken as a political move to stop Virgin applying in the US courts for remedies under the anti-trust laws . |
| 28 | The Hon. Member said that he welcomed the Minister 's positive response . |
| 29 | This was discussed at Public Transport at its last meeting , and there 's quite a lot of preamble , but basically erm in response to this request , erm Mr Townsend said that he reported the bus and coach council was looking at the question of pollution and green issues generally , and was about to produce a document suggesting ways forward . |
| 30 | In a recent interview , Greenaway said that he hated the idea of a shot in a film being only a preposition , linking what went before and after . |