Example sentences of "said that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong . |
| 3 | For the present , we can simply note that many of the women felt that relations between themselves and the staff were less formal than relations between the male students and the staff ; the women said that they found it quite easy to ‘ get round ’ the male staff , whereas several men complained that staff were quite unhelpful . |
| 4 | Chief inspector Walter Walker , who helped organise the survey , explained , ‘ Many said that they wanted us to be more friendly and caring , and give more information to visitors . |
| 5 | The C.C. said that they called him in to look at the body . |
| 6 | And apart from the garden that you said that you made it lovely while you were there , what other things did you do to make it look like a home ? |
| 7 | when I spoke to about it she said that you told her to hand it over to my department cos it was a national account |
| 8 | You said that you got it for a bet , well a bet is usually something like swimming in the North Sea on Christmas Day , I mean something sharp and brief , while working for a degree , however brilliant you are , takes years . |
| 9 | And they talked to her , most politely : the Martin man asked her when she was doing her Finals , and she told him , and he asked her what she was going to do then , and she said that she thought she would do a teacher 's training course . |
| 10 | Julia put the desolation that suddenly thrust itself into her mind down to her cold and said that she thought she ought to go bed . |
| 11 | As she pulled the dress over my head she said that she thought it would still fit her , that she could see the hole at the neckline where my grandmother had pinned a pearl brooch as something old , that the classic line never dated . |
| 12 | But then you see , she said that she thought it was too many so she put it |
| 13 | As far as Simon knew , the late-night callouts were an occasional part of the job that she did n't much like , but said that she felt she had to do . |
| 14 | from Pilkingtons and there 's little , she said you would n't notice it but there 's little like , little things on and when he did the grouting yesterday she said that she said it was awful , she did n't like it at all so she told him this morning |
| 15 | ‘ I said that she believed it , ’ she persisted furiously . |
| 16 | She said that she penalized her cos of her weight . |
| 17 | We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world . |
| 18 | I said that I thought they were wrong ; but that if that was their reason for declining to serve I could only accept it and be sorry . |
| 19 | Back in Britain writing my last newsletter to the Group in Scotland I had loved and brought together , I said that I thought we had to be much bolder , taking an a priori stance on the fact that there could be no discrimination against women . |
| 20 | I answered my own question , and said that I thought we must be middle class , and reflected very precisely in that moment on my mother 's black waisted coat with the astrakhan collar , and her high-heeled black suede shoes , her lipstick . |
| 21 | Oh right , I see when you said that I thought he was going to an army regiment that they put up in Gloucester |
| 22 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |
| 23 | I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come . |
| 24 | I said that I understood she came from the Continent , and she told me that she was born in Denmark . |
| 25 | It was not so much by what Basil said that I remember him but by what he did . |
| 26 | But he said er , and I said that I gather you 're seeing Lynda the weekend if you do find anything perhaps you could pass it on to her . |
| 27 | I said that I believed it would now be right to give some indication of the Government 's attitude to the building of a tunnel . |
| 28 | ‘ By God , Sally-Anne , your mother said that I spoiled you rotten , and I think that she 's right . |
| 29 | ‘ If I said that I trusted you , ’ she whispered , forcing the words to form , ‘ if I told you that , come what may , I trusted you , would you still be confused ? ’ |
| 30 | Er again after you do that very same thing erm you know jingle your change and one of them he said that I reckon you got three pound eighty . |