Example sentences of "say he [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst expensive flop Peter Barnes , Allan Clarke says he needed to buy eight players and was only allowed four , one of which cost a lot , well Allan , you bought the WRONG ONE ! 30,000 |
| 2 | I got a DOPACS report saying he 'd worked thirteen shifts out of fourteen . |
| 3 | Dr Woodall , 32 , denied this , saying he had produced 80,000 bottles of the non-alcoholic elderflower drink without anyone confusing it with champagne . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Last May just days before his finals he telephoned his mother in Singapore to say he 'd taken 200 pills . |
| 6 | He gave himself up to police later that night and said he had drunk two cans of lager . |
| 7 | He said he had to conduct some business with the grain merchant . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At Daimler 's annual meeting on May 26th , Deutsche Bank said he had received confidential information about Daimler 's accounts before he speculated in related shares . |
| 10 | He said he had received five calls from angry parents or grandparents who had similar problems to the child portrayed on television . |
| 11 | He said he had made several attempts to persuade the developers , Peter and Reay Campbell , to alter it . |
| 12 | Mitigating , Howe 's solicitor said he had suffered domestic problems and the incident had brought shame on his family . |
| 13 | He said he had asked many times before , but he needed to tell me something first . |
| 14 | Mr O'Donnell said he had seen other men whom he named in court . |
| 15 | PC Broughton said he had seen one youth in a distinctive T-shirt whom he later identified as Hardy throw a missile . |
| 16 | People said he had broken many hearts already . |
| 17 | Manor said he had given this dispensation on 40 occasions . |
| 18 | Mr Trotter said he had approached various church funds without success . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He said he had spent four days taking rock samples in the area of the dam and had found that there were interconnected limestone layers above and below the dam site through which the water might leak away . |
| 21 | One said he had spent some time in South Africa : ‘ The whites used their Bible to do down the black people . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mr Lynch said he had taken legal advice on whether the 1912 Protection of Animals ( Scotland ) Act could be used against anyone found harassing the whales . |
| 24 | ‘ He said he had to meet another woman . |
| 25 | One boy said he had found six ways with 1 at the front . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Timothy Langdale , QC , counsel for Guppy , said he had had high expenses in recent years and it should not be assumed ‘ that there is some pot of gold stuck in some foreign country ’ . |
| 28 | SOME CONTROL But Coun. Dave Lyonette ( Lab ) said he had counted 43 vehicles parked between Binns and the gas showrooms on High Row last Friday displaying orange badges . |
| 29 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
| 30 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |