Example sentences of "[pron] he said [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Terry was still talking to Frank , but Frank ridiculed everything he said to the point where they , too , hardly spoke .
2 Unfortunately for the government , it became clear that Mosley meant what he said about the scandal of mass unemployment and the greater scandal of Labour 's failure to do anything about it .
3 But what he said about the role technology would play in the war seems to have been as accurate as the laser-guided bombs shown on television .
4 Secondly , while I heard what he said about the fact that , in the case of Mr. Thorpe , the process in north Devon was not exhausted , the theoretical position remains that the treatment may not have been available in north Devon , but was made available in London by virtue of the fact that Mr. Thorpe had two residences and was registered in two places .
5 I agree with what he said about the Association of British Insurers , the insurance industry and the motor car industry , here , in western Europe and increasingly in central Europe — not to mention Japan and Korea .
6 Bunny buried his face in his beer and I only just caught what he said over the noise from the band .
7 ‘ I can not associate what he said with the action of killing .
8 When he spoke to her she could scarcely hear what he said for the thudding of her lovesick heart and the chattering of her teeth .
9 But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears .
10 I do n't know what he said to the lady of the house , but we were not invited to return .
11 The intent can best be proved by an admission from the accused or what he said to the female to whom he exposed himself .
12 Though I tried to read Marx I could n't connect what he said to the world I knew .
13 In response to his anxiety , perhaps he will send me quotations of what he said during the period of the last Labour Government when 30,980 jobs were lost in the mining industry in Wales .
14 Mr. Grist : The Hon. Gentleman , too , is repeating what he said in the debate .
15 A Member of Parliament may deeply regret what he said in the heat of a debate ; but he can never have the record changed on the plea of ‘ I did n't mean to say that . ’
16 He has allowed The Art Newspaper to republish what he said in the Dalmatian ( therefore Croatian ) periodical Nedjeljna Dalmacija last 5 September , because , he says , everything he said then remains true today .
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