Example sentences of "said that [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff said that they felt more inclined to offer services if they were not assuming sole responsibility for an individual 's welfare but could ‘ share the burden ’ . |
| 2 | The Head of Department said that they had already started to implement the recommendations to them . |
| 3 | Almost three in four stated that for work purposes they bought good quality clothing to last , but almost half also said that they had completely ruined an item of clothing during working hours . |
| 4 | The man talked a lot about karma and said that they had obviously been together in a previous incarnation , but now their birthdates were not synchronized . |
| 5 | He said that they had never forgotten her ; nor had he forgot ten Slavko , with whom he used to play . |
| 6 | Responding to criticism from neighbouring countries , including Russia , the Chinese authorities said that they had always exercised restraint in nuclear testing and that China was still committed to a complete ban on nuclear testing within the framework of effective nuclear disarmament . |
| 7 | He said that they sounded all right , but that he would like to know what was happening in practice . |
| 8 | But I mean he was very interested and when I said that we 'd actually done a recycling directory and that I was thinking |
| 9 | CW said that we had only just discovered how inefficiently the network had been set up by the previous company , and that the speed would be substantially improved by the network upgrade . |
| 10 | Fareda , I 'd like to come back to you because you said that you had quite a bit of information from people currently in Kuwait . |
| 11 | Now you said that you 'd actually presented it in another way and were just , and , and had just changed it . |
| 12 | I feel as though I 'm on a plateau at the moment although sh sh when I said that she said well i it is getting better so the |
| 13 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 14 | More than once in cross-examination Miss Tucker said that she had since the police interview changed her statement , and had made ‘ a new one . ’ |
| 15 | I recently took the ‘ little people ’ along to my local Heron Knitting Club where they were much admired and one of our members — in fact my former knitting machine tutor — said that she had once made a whole Nativity scene with empty cones . |
| 16 | The American poet Marianne Moore said that she had sometimes to send a piece of work to forty different magazines before it was finally accepted . |
| 17 | She had never been to Ireland and said that she had never read anything about that country , and yet she was able to supply an abundance of detail about the way of life in that place at an earlier time . |
| 18 | For example , at first interview Mrs Kitchener 's daughter expressed a great deal of antagonism to her mother , talked at great length about the difficulties she experienced in caring for her mother and said that she had often told her mother — and other people — that she ought to be in a Home . |
| 19 | Prunskiene said that she had merely been forced to give the KGB an account of her foreign visits . |
| 20 | Her perception of physics as a discipline is one that is about ideas and concepts ; she said that she 'd always found physics much more ‘ dynamic ’ than ‘ static ’ subjects like chemistry and geography . |
| 21 | ‘ Azadi said that I had just twenty-four hours to provide him with the exact location of the ship — or else I would be executed . |
| 22 | I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary . |
| 23 | I then said that I had always looked forward to going to the Board of Education . |
| 24 | But he often said that he owed as much to Oscar Browning [ q.v. ] , who had to get his Baptist parents ' permission to take him to the theatre . |
| 25 | Williams said that he glanced away and suddenly heard several single shots . |
| 26 | Yet I knew a Wiltshire man who said that he burned hardly anything else ; and it was very fine , he said , when well seasoned . |
| 27 | When I said that I had read it , the hon. Gentleman said that he had also read it . |
| 28 | Giving government corruption and the violation of human rights as reasons for his decision , Njoroge said that he had also left the ruling Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) and was joining the opposition Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) . |
| 29 | It 's a symbolic embarrassment to have man in a graveyard outside a church , not getting any sanctuary , especially when you consider not only that background you 've mentioned , Jesus himself actually said that he had nowhere to lay his head . |
| 30 | Andrew Stavanger was not on board , and her Master said that he had certainly not sailed in her . |