Example sentences of "said that [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board said that they deserved their percentage because they had put me in the position to attract the money . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Did y you said that you had your purse stolen , did someone actually break into the flat ? |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You also said that you liked our colour pages . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But then you see , she said that she thought it was too many so she put it |
| 15 | ‘ I read a very good piece by Candida Crewe , in which she said that she felt her life had been made richer by having had step-parents . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Mrs. O'Brien said that she believed what her husband told her about the company doing well and having good potential , but she was concerned for her son and felt that it was only for three weeks , and if it would do the trick , she would sign . |
| 19 | ‘ I said that she believed it , ’ she persisted furiously . |
| 20 | The Dundee deaconess , who helped us with advice about children 's books an her own delightful design for a Chalet School sampler , said that she hoped our efforts together would bring ‘ help , food and life to many . ’ |
| 21 | In the same speech she said that she wanted her government to be remembered as one ‘ which decisively broke with a debilitating consensus of a paternalistic Government and a dependent people ; which rejected the notion that the State is all powerful and the citizen is merely its beneficiary ; which shattered the illusion that Government could somehow substitute for individual performance ’ . |
| 22 | She said that she penalized her cos of her weight . |
| 23 | No , because she said something , she said that I said something did n't she ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Oh right , I see when you said that I thought he was going to an army regiment that they put up in Gloucester |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come . |