Example sentences of "but he [verb] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had said nothing , only looked subdued , and Adam realized why . |
| 2 | She had tried to explain this fleeting instinctive comprehension to Peter , but he had said , ‘ I think you are confusing faith with emotion , ’ so she had not tried again . |
| 3 | But he had said it already . |
| 4 | It was true that he had never said he would marry me , but he had said that when the war was over he would write to me and try to come back . |
| 5 | But he had said nothing , and his silence was beginning to hurt her . |
| 6 | That 's what he normally does , but he had said |
| 7 | But he declined to say whether the inspectors — two teams acting together for the first time in Iraq — had found any of the Scud missiles the United Nations thinks Iraq is hiding . |
| 8 | Mrs Beavis had said he could use the bed at nights , if he wanted , but he 'd said no , he did n't want three rooms to look after , he was n't as domesticated as that . |
| 9 | But he does say that mind is nothing essentially different from body , and is , in fact , ‘ nothing but the motions in certain parts of an organic body ’ . |
| 10 | But he does say Mass when invited , often by people with AIDS who are not Catholic , but would like spiritual support from a like-minded person . |
| 11 | But he came saying , ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 12 | But he refused to say what role the controversial Frenchman will play in Sunday 's Manchester derby at Old Trafford . |
| 13 | Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd blames a 5% fall in profits before charges for closure of some telecommunications operations on losses at the UK telecommunications subsidiary , Reuter reports , but the group will still commit another £200m to the UK unit this year , group chairman Li Ka-Shing said : ‘ I 'm not happy with the results , but we 'll still continue our commitment to the UK operation and pump more money into it , ’ he said — ‘ I 'm not sure the worst is over yet in the UK , which ate up all our Hong Kong profits this year ; ’ he said Hutchison will have invested over £500m in the loss-making UK unit , including the £200m that is earmarked for this year , but he refused to say at what point he will say enough is enough — ‘ It 's too early to say ; you can never tell when business will pick up . ’ |
| 14 | The Napoleonic Society of America begged to snap it , but he refused saying : ‘ I want it handled with dignity . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Tebbit has consistently made clear his opposition to large scale immigration but he has said he is in favour of ‘ attracting immigrants who are well educated and highly skilled … regardless of race ’ . |
| 16 | He has given very little account of how he spent his time , but he has said he spent the majority of that time with a travelling circus , both in this country and in the Irish Republic . |
| 17 | Macari will bring at least two of his Stoke City backroom staff to Parkhead , but he has said that Frank Connor will be retained . |
| 18 | and he is n't in my opinion really considering half the other jobs , but he has said that he wants that and by the mercy of providence this business of Lee being flung out by Andy and being put back onto the into the job centre coincides with my being very tight on money . |
| 19 | He was not prepared to preach to the British — ‘ I do n't really know too much about them ’ — but he did say that no one could expect success without putting in a great deal of hard work . |
| 20 | But he did say : ‘ I do n't understand the backlash . |
| 21 | ‘ I know how much we have already put in up to the end of 1992 and I know what we could be asked for for 1993 , ’ Longuet said , but the size of the sums is to embarrassing for him to reveal them — but he did say they were incompatible with what the European Commission would allow and what French taxpayers wanted . |
| 22 | Erm but he did say that he 's actually writing a leaflet which they can run to seven or eight pages . |
| 23 | But he did say he wanted to talk . |
| 24 | But he did say that er it 'll take three weeks before he can get back to me about sending me to the Law |
| 25 | But he did say there was a possibility that and could in time be made into a parish of their own . |
| 26 | But he did say that February 's increase was significantly lower than that recorded in January . |
| 27 | Yeah I know but he did say that even though agents I 'm not giving you this and then he showed me all the things you know to sort of prove that he was doing it . |
| 28 | But he did say that , er , it 'll take three weeks before he could and send along . |
| 29 | No but he 's said |
| 30 | He wishes to reject the idea that Christ took upon himself our guilt but he wishes to say that Christ identified with our sin and weaknesses . |