Example sentences of "he [conj] say [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Emperor spoke to him and said that as long as he did not speak to anyone in that underground place , nothing would happen to him . |
| 2 | On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work . |
| 3 | At the morning coffee-break , one of his colleagues approached him and said that he practised acupuncture , and that he would relieve his shoulder tension for him if he wished . |
| 4 | I thereupon obtained from him the name of the solicitor instructed by Randolph , telephoned him and said that my own firm would accept service of the writ . |
| 5 | Howard Kendall has fined him and said that it 's all over . |
| 6 | He says I 'd better go and check the money so he said erm but what he could n't understand was they wrote to him and said that they have n't paid the cheques but they did n't say anything about freezing his account ! |
| 7 | And as th Jesus come into the house , the blind men came up to him and said and Jesus said to him , do you believe that I am able to do this ? |
| 8 | Afterwards , she ventured to go up to him and say that she was my sister : to which he replied kindly — ; ‘ I can see that you are ’ . |
| 9 | Findlay was arrested and according to the Crown made damaging admissions , asking who had ‘ grassed ’ him and saying that he was only concerned in one post office robbery . |
| 10 | The eve-of-talks optimism of the Sacu president , Geoff Daikin , was not even dented by the state-run television , which quoted him as saying that Sacu would push for the tour at all costs . |
| 11 | The Times for 24 September 1988 quotes him as saying that the Education Reform Act , far from signalling a return to traditional teaching , offers plenty of opportunities for continuing experimentation . |
| 12 | She has made much of statements made by Neville , and has quoted him as saying that ‘ the weapons of revolution are obscenity , blasphemy and drugs ’ and as further saying during the OZ trial that the whole point of pornography was to promote promiscuity . |
| 13 | Michael recalls him as saying that the notion was suggested by a detective story by R. Austin Freeman , which concerned a negro knocking his brow against a bar , so that the blood issuing forth was ‘ essential ’ . |
| 14 | Brucan 's additional claim that public opinion was being formed by a one-time Ceausescu collaborator was taken to be a reference to one of the NSF 's most public critics , Octavian Paler , editor of the newspaper Romania Libera , who had published an interview given by Brucan to the Independent which quoted him as saying that only intellectuals were fit to run the country . |
| 15 | Mario Buracchia , the commander of Italian naval forces in the Gulf , resigned on Jan. 30 after the magazine Famiglia Cristiana quoted him as saying that war could have been avoided " with a little more wisdom " and the continuation of the economic embargo . |
| 16 | It quoted him as saying that " if the Iraqis had given a positive response to our call sooner , the situation would be different now " , but also as adding that it had become " evident " that " the USA and its allies are pursuing wider aims than Iraq 's withdrawal from Kuwait " . |
| 17 | Interviewed in the Beirut newspaper An Nahar on Sept. 1 , Aoun called Lebanon 's leaders " marionettes who should be tried for high treason " ; the French magazine Paris Match on Sept. 7 quoted him as saying that the Syrians would only last a year and that he was the future saviour of Lebanon . |
| 18 | At a press conference in Alma Ata , the Kazakh capital , on Aug. 17 , Kazakh news agency qoted him as saying that the agreements included provisions for new border crossing points and visa-free travel ; Kazakhstan was prepared to provide China with assistance in geological prospecting , ore enrichment , the chemical industry , laser and biological technology , and in building hydroelectric power stations . |
| 19 | Reuters news agency cited him as saying that he and Klaus had agreed a timetable for moves towards the split and for preparing legislation at both federal and republic level to ensure a peaceful transition to two independent states . |