Example sentences of "say [conj] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some records say that he dismissed the White Lions and the rest of his retinue , claiming that he wanted a moment alone to contemplate the blade that had done his people so much harm . |
| 2 | Bede says that he reduced the southern Saxons to a more grievous servitude on the death of Berhthun ( HE IV , 15 ) , and the situation in Kent may have been similar , the kingdom reduced to economic and political disarray.27 |
| 3 | Similarly , Simon had said that he detested the National Front , but it was always the left-wingers who started the violence . |
| 4 | ‘ Now there 's ane end of ane old song , ’ James Ogilvy , Earl of Seafield , had said as he signed the engrossed exemplification of the Act of Union . |
| 5 | Graham Greene , for example , said that he wrote The Confidential Agent in record time under the influence of benzedrine . |
| 6 | I asked Gennaro how he came by the letter and he merely said that he knew the right people to approach . |
| 7 | A United Kingdom Foreign Office spokesman welcomed the development and said that he expected the European Communities ( EC ) to move " swiftly " to lift its bans on the import of South African iron , steel and of gold coins . |
| 8 | Akashi , during a visit to Japan on March 11 , said that he expected the Japanese government to contribute a third of UNTAC 's estimated total cost of US$1,900 million . |
| 9 | Rev Eric Shegog , Director of Communication for the Church of England , said that he hoped the working party would be able to report back in the autumn of 1992 . |
| 10 | But if we study the use of religious language in Wordsworth 's poems between 1798 and 1820 we see a gradual change from what might be meant metaphorically or ‘ poetically ’ ( Wordsworth said that he employed the pre-existence theme in the Immortality Ode ‘ as a Poet ’ ) towards language that is used literally and in an orthodox Christian sense . |
| 11 | Mr Addy , aged 43 , who has run the pub for eight years , said if he signed the 20-year lease his rent would increase by £19,000 to £76,000 . |
| 12 | ‘ Si , ’ Franco said and he tried the English word : ‘ Pent . ’ |
| 13 | No one got him to expand on his Irish policy , just as no one got Mr Kinnock to say whether he followed the Tory policy on Ireland ( whatever that is ) or the policy of the last Labour Conference which calls for a United Ireland . |
| 14 | ‘ Bavduin is a timeless battle , ’ Wynne-Jones said as he surveyed the sombre gathering of the fallen . |
| 15 | ‘ Be nice up there today , ’ Selwyn said as he scanned the cloudless sky , ‘ but watch out for them bloody stags . |
| 16 | ‘ Rascals , ’ Fat Watt said when he noticed the far-off plumes of smoke , and stumbled off as though everything had been said that could be said . |
| 17 | As Piaget said when he reported the original finding , trying to explain the children 's behaviour away by saying that they ‘ misinterpret the question ’ is circular : of course they are misinterpreting the question and the next question is about cognitive determinants of this misinterpretation — this ‘ non-conservation ’ . |
| 18 | The government will help your son , but he must not say that he killed the white man on purpose . |