Example sentences of "say that [pers pn] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too many of us now say that they did n't know what was going on , and that they were long opposed to what was happening . |
| 2 | Some try to explain the miracles away and say that they did not happen . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course , we must believe you when you say that you did n't change Mrs Hampton into a wolf , ’ said Clovis politely . |
| 4 | ‘ Now do you believe me when I say that I did n't touch you in order to prove some theory about your boyfriend meaning nothing to you ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm very disappointed not to be doing the film , ’ Crawford added , ‘ but I would rather that people remember enjoying my performance in the play than say that I did n't quite pull it off in the film . ’ |
| 6 | Oh , no , never say that he did not like them , after all her hard work and the writing of them in the small hours after her demanding duties as a dogsbody had already tired her ! |
| 7 | For example , if someone says that they did not have time to read the material and asks for a summary from the author or chairman , politely refuse . |
| 8 | But might not be the best thing because if for any reason the buyer says that they did n't they 're not going to pay |
| 9 | Lynda says that she did think long and hard about changing careers — not least about the fact that as a Stoy 's partner she could soon be drawing a six figure profit share , compared to the substantially lower salary she would get at C&R . |
| 10 | Yasmin says that she did n't start out to be a model . |
| 11 | And er she says that she did n't want summat expensive when she could be buying summat for kitchen , you know , like a microwave or summat like that . |
| 12 | But in the very next poem he says that he did it for a change of diet , a bout of ‘ physic ’ as it were , needed after over-indulgence : ‘ being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness , /To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding ’ ( 118 ) . |
| 13 | He says that he did not kill you or your companions because you were unarmed , and anyway he thought that the two he killed intended to use their weapons on you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But another says that he did n't notice the rose and simply rode away . ’ |
| 15 | His wife Anne says that he DID drink in Saudi , but would never have committed the more serious offence of running a still and selling its produce . |
| 16 | I have talked to lady presidents of prior years who have said that they did not experience any difficulties . |
| 17 | But , although Park and the Chicago School recognised these two levels of human behaviour , it should be said that they did still engage in some largely unhelpful metaphors between the social and the natural worlds . |
| 18 | Our customers tend to be left out of these reports , but it must be said that they did part cheerfully with over 13,000 and that we enjoyed meeting them . |
| 19 | She had also said that she did not want an epidural . |
| 20 | I was happy because I was now ‘ on the inside ’ , doing war-work and feeling , for the first time , that we were really a partnership ; and I was proud that I had grown more confident , and mature enough to take Leslie as he was , and no longer demanded — as he had once said that I did — that he be the White Knight . |
| 21 | My father was the sweetest man in the world and there was nothing I could fight him for , or do against him , or he against me , because nothing was said that I did n't agree with , or he did n't agree with , because I was a very easy child . |
| 22 | Just do n't let it be said that I did n't warn you , that 's all . ’ |
| 23 | Well I disagree in as much as I have said that I did n't have a shotgun and ignoring that fact then that I did n't have a shotgun she certainly did not make a lunge at me . |
| 24 | If it was simply a matter of the operating system , I 'd have said that it did n't much matter which of the two you chose to go with . |
| 25 | But if it could be said that he did have a weakness for something , it was for Ireland and the Irish . |
| 26 | He had said that he did not want a solicitor when he first arrived at the police station , at 2 p.m . |
| 27 | He had once said that he did n't know whether his passion for water-power was a result of meanness or had some deeper Freudian significance . |
| 28 | It has often been said that he did not really have any very clear idea of what he wanted from his Council ; and as far as content goes , that may be true . |
| 29 | Sartre is reported to have said that he did not feel free without a thousand francs in his pocket ; this is clearly a freedom which can only be enjoyed by a few . |
| 30 | in which C had affirmatively said that he did not want a solicitor . |