Example sentences of "they said it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they said it goes up erm ten centimetres every kilometre . |
| 2 | They said it does n't matter what it 's for |
| 3 | They said it meant the latter ; they said they were ‘ prepared to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 4 | They said it meant death . |
| 5 | They said it had been captive but had escaped . ’ |
| 6 | And they said May which we thought was it a bit really but they said it had the the Spring wood but not the Summer wood on it . |
| 7 | He says we tried to persuade the Council to let us have it , but they said it had to be leased so now we have no where to go . |
| 8 | ‘ They said it looks OK but they 've towed it off somewhere to search for clues . |
| 9 | They said it gave people ideas , Dorcas gathered , which were not a good thing unless they were the right kind of ideas . |
| 10 | I mean erm the , I mean , erm the closest I ever get to sort of news design is redesigning the Oxford University Press Gazette , and one of the first things when they said it 's got to go A four was well in that case you 've got to staple it , because you ca n't have thirty-two , sixty-four pages A four sort of doing that . |
| 11 | They said , they said it do n't give you a hangover but do n't believe it cos I had a you have a |
| 12 | They said it comes from apes . |
| 13 | They said it appeared the death was not suspicious but they would like to hear from anyone in the area between 7am and 8am yesterday . |
| 14 | Suppose they said it shrinks as well . |