Example sentences of "say [pers pn] had [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because yo di I said I had to send that agreement because you 're failing to meet the standard agreement , you 're not paying within the twenty eight days or the thirty days ! |
| 2 | ‘ The boy drove the whole way to Dublin on his half day to bring you home and then drove straight back and said you had to see another doctor . |
| 3 | Because of this she felt generous and said she had realised some time ago that a really beautiful man was very much more beautiful than the most beautiful woman , and was n't that interesting . |
| 4 | At one stage , she said she had experienced some conflict ‘ like being in two places at once ’ but soon realized that her real attachment was to her adoptive parents . |
| 5 | ‘ You said we had to avoid each other . ’ |
| 6 | This is not often mentioned in the documents , but two of the surviving women compositors I was able to interview said they had started this way . |
| 7 | It is only if someone can do , has learnt , is master of , such-and-such , that it makes sense to say he had had this experience . |
| 8 | American Express , which has put a ‘ fraud alert ’ warning on its April statements , said it had refunded all complainants in full . |
| 9 | American Express , which has put a ‘ fraud alert ’ warning on its April statements , said it had refunded all complainants in full . |
| 10 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
| 11 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
| 12 | He said he had to conduct some business with the grain merchant . |
| 13 | Michael Goodman , spokesman for the Lower Ormeau Residents ' Action Group , said he had hoped any problems would have been ironed out following a meeting with Laganside , the DoE and the contractors last month . |
| 14 | He said he had made several attempts to persuade the developers , Peter and Reay Campbell , to alter it . |
| 15 | He said he had asked many times before , but he needed to tell me something first . |
| 16 | People said he had broken many hearts already . |
| 17 | Manor said he had given this dispensation on 40 occasions . |
| 18 | Fletcher said he had spoken several times to Ramprakash this winter in an effort to help point the highly talented player in the right direction . |
| 19 | One said he had spent some time in South Africa : ‘ The whites used their Bible to do down the black people . ’ |
| 20 | As an example of US energy inefficiency , he said he had spent more time going to and from meetings during the Houston summit than in the meetings themselves . |
| 21 | ‘ He said he had to meet another woman . |
| 22 | Trawler boss Alan Ayres , who has accused the Navy of a cover-up , said he had found some schoolchildren who could help him prove the Pescado was sunk by a submarine 18 months ago . |
| 23 | ‘ If Selwyn intends to go to the Colonel 's this afternoon , I could say I had to go that way myself and offer him a lift on the motorbike . ’ |
| 24 | I could say he had lost some documents , needed the dates and times of his attendance — patients visited , doctors consulted and so forth — to complete his records . |