Example sentences of "said [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , that 's right and they 've got all the hassle of the airport , mind you they ought to be able to get a local airport I do n't know who they 're going , going with , who the erm Gavin said , I think Gavin said or somebody said something the , the original company have gone bankrupt |
| 2 | he said or you know |
| 3 | matter what you said or you know , you could n't put them off like . |
| 4 | Th you said or you implied that the women were surprised that er that they could have power and you use it effectively . |
| 5 | The Queen commending his work , not only for the pains therein taken , said that nothing had given her so great delectation . |
| 6 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
| 7 | We 've often spoken about her and said that something has got to happen . |
| 8 | ‘ That doctor , she said that ye worry too much . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You just said that nobody suspected . ’ |
| 10 | He said that everyone knew that clubs were involved in too many matches but no-one did much about rectifying the situation . |
| 11 | Alexander said that everyone wants to be right but no one stops to think whether their idea of right is in fact right . |
| 12 | And 32% said that they set up because they saw ‘ an opportunity too good to miss ’ , compared with only 25% of men . |
| 13 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 14 | Western diplomats who witnessed the violence said that they saw security force members place explosives in the car belonging to Laurent Gbagbo , the FPI leader , and set it on fire . |
| 15 | As far as the organisation of their work was concerned , only four said that they spent all their time with the ‘ named ’ child , half worked with other special needs children or undertook general duties and 92 per cent said they also worked with normal children . |
| 16 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 17 | Both students and lecturers said that they felt that lectures gave an opportunity for personal contact . |
| 18 | About fifteen of the boys said that they felt some need to prove themselves to the others and to become known to them by name . |
| 19 | Staff said that they felt more inclined to offer services if they were not assuming sole responsibility for an individual 's welfare but could ‘ share the burden ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Most said that they felt guilty about taking time off , even when they were ill . ’ |
| 21 | Bush said , however , that he would use his executive discretion to modify or suspend US sanctions when two more of the five conditions were met ; administration officials said that they expected the freeing of political prisoners and the lifting of the state of emergency in Natal to be regarded as adequate moves . |
| 22 | In Staffordshire the jurors said that they knew ‘ by the evidence of old people , and by those who best know the truth of the matter , and by perambulations previously made ’ . |
| 23 | He said that they lacked Bibles and any kind of literature and hopes to arrange some provisions from Christian publishers in surrounding countries . |
| 24 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 25 | Appealing for calm in Lebanon , the State Department spokesmen said that they had no indication who was responsible . |
| 26 | Yet they also said that they had managed to increase output without increasing the workforce and had been able to grow more effectively . |
| 27 | A leading member of the music panel said that they had not been informed in advance that the future of Kent Opera would be discussed in November . |
| 28 | An expert on ladybirds from Cambridge University said that they had begun their egg-laying two months early , in time to double the usual crop of adults this summer . |
| 29 | One panel member said that they had been ready to ‘ throw out ’ the whole study until the notebook with this new data was produced . |
| 30 | The man talked a lot about karma and said that they had obviously been together in a previous incarnation , but now their birthdates were not synchronized . |