Example sentences of "said [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children are not unfamiliar with situations in which they tell , or are told , what someone else said or thought ; or in which they tell what they themselves said or thought at some point in the past or think at the time of speaking . |
| 2 | In the interviews most of the lead clinicians said that day to day relationships with patients had changed very little . |
| 3 | A communiqué said that government measures would ( i ) crack down on groups smuggling refugees across borders : ( ii ) standardize border controls ; ( iii ) deploy forces in remoter border areas ; and ( iv ) apply heavy fines for airlines failing to check travellers ' papers adequately at their point of departure . |
| 4 | He said that government measures on a pro rata basis might affect only 140 unemployed people in each of Scotland 's parliamentary constituencies , even though they have , on average , more than 4,000 out of work . |
| 5 | He also said that BOSS had established an office " with the specific purpose of servicing Chief Buthelelzi 's Inkatha office " . |
| 6 | The plaintiffs said that interpretation of the agreement could only be a matter for the court . |
| 7 | Shares in mobile phone operator Vodafone Group Plc rose fivepence to 379p yesterday after the company said that subscriber figures for April gave the company its best month in three years for connections to its network , with net new connections standing at 18,766 ; for the first time since LowCall was launched in October , net new connections to the business base exceeded net new LowCall connections . |
| 8 | ‘ Angy and I had supper together on the Monday evening but she never said that girl had been here , or that Rick was corning to see her . ’ |
| 9 | Mr. Blacker said that council officers who had met the committee were aware of problems in the area . |
| 10 | Younger LJ said that severance was only permissible where the covenant is not really a single covenant but is in effect a combination of several distinct covenants . |
| 11 | At the time of the acquisition insurance analysts said that AMP had aspirations to expand , and since it controls one third of the Australian life insurance market its opportunities were limited in that country . |
| 12 | He said that guerrilla attacks would henceforth be directed at military targets , state companies and economic installations among others . |
| 13 | They said that shortage of staff at the HSE meant that all the officers working on implementing the advisory committee 's proposals , which were published in October 1979 , were switched in 1980 to work on the EEC scheme . |
| 14 | SunPics spokesman Kevin Olsen said that Adobe technology would be integrated within the four layers of its NewsPrint system , particularly the imaging and font layer where X11/News and its own well-established F3 scalable font format standard already reside . |
| 15 | The North Korean side presented information on 12 Japanese wives , but said that home visits could only be considered before full normalization of relations if the talks progressed smoothly . |
| 16 | In a banquet speech on Nov. 13 , South Korean President Roh Tae Woo said that APEC should not become an exclusive regional economic bloc , and warned against the development of competition between east Asia and north America . |
| 17 | A spokeswoman for Equity said that management and the dancers will discuss pay and terms of contract later this week . |
| 18 | The factory 's Solidarity union leader Janusz Sciskalsi said that management and the ministry had ignored warnings about the condition of the business . |
| 19 | He said that licensing justices at Flint , Mold and Hawarden were endeavouring to only grant licences to experienced people and those who had completed various licensing training courses and had passed the British Institute of Inn Keeping examination . |
| 20 | The NDF , which wanted a nationwide truce , said that peace talks with the government would be useless unless Aquino set an agenda to solve the problems of US economic domination , inadequate redistribution of farmland , poverty and government repression . |
| 21 | Lord Boyd-Carpenter said that criticism was unhappily ‘ not confined to the other side ’ and it would be many years before the scheme would bear fruit . |
| 22 | But 29 per cent said that credit was ‘ never a good thing ( you should save up or buy only what you have the cash for ) ’ . |
| 23 | Preaching to the converted , he said that credit was the best indicator of forthcoming recession , or the end thereof . |
| 24 | He said that credit costs had been rising partly as a reaction to global inflationary fears , but that the current high interest rates were necessary and appropriate and were a way of keeping inflation in check . |
| 25 | Charlton Curry , the second placed Liberal , said that Conservatism had ‘ departed once and for all ’ from Co Durham and ( with a nod to Mr Fallon and one or two of his predecessors ) was just about right . |
| 26 | The store manager said that core staff motivation was a problem because after a while the job becomes highly repetitive . |
| 27 | Among correspondents over 65 , 40 p.c. said that English should be the official language of Europe . |
| 28 | Seventy-five per cent of respondents said that sex was the same or better now than when younger . |
| 29 | Now you see why I said that sex was the easy bit ! |
| 30 | Cheshire police said that message was relayed to them as the bombs exploded in Warrington 's Bridge Street at about 12.25pm . |