Example sentences of "thing he [verb] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wanting the wedding-dress was an excuse for saying all the things he 'd said . |
| 2 | The terrible things he 'd said still haunted her . |
| 3 | She still went cold inside when she remembered the things he 'd said . |
| 4 | His behaviour , the things he 'd said , trying with her new knowledge of him to find flaws in his reasoning , and then wondered drearily why she bothered . |
| 5 | The worst part lay in facing up to the fact that some of the things he 'd said were true , much as she might try to deny it . |
| 6 | The things he 'd said , the things she 'd said … it had all gone round and round inside her head a hundred times . |
| 7 | She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before . |
| 8 | Until , in the end , Carrie began to think she must have made it all up , that she had just dreamed all those things he had said . |
| 9 | The row that followed had left her deeply shaken , as much at her own blindness to the kind of man he really was as by the dreadful things he had said . |
| 10 | Before , on the landing , the things he had said to her , thought of her … |
| 11 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 12 | And memory , too , came crowding back , recalling the harsh things he had said with no sign of regret or subsequent apology . |
| 13 | But there were obviously still more things he had to say . |
| 14 | By then Cameron 's mind was rousing itself from shock , there were many things he wanted to say to James , but the moment they stepped down under the massive archway of the prison they were hustled in opposite directions . |
| 15 | ‘ They break the rules because Bawden cares less for rules than for the things he has to say about the feel of a summer morning , the watery sunshine of an April afternoon , or the flurry of a February snowstorm . ’ |
| 16 | It was the first thing he 'd said , all afternoon . |
| 17 | It was the first thing he 'd said the whole twenty miles . |
| 18 | It was probably the truest thing he had said so far that morning . |
| 19 | — the most interesting thing he has to say is that sadism and masochism are always present in the same person : a masochist is a frustrated sadist , and a sadist is a frustrated masochist . ’ |
| 20 | The first thing he wants to say is that he will sponsor the Leukaemia Research Fund wicketkeeping effort . |