Example sentences of "he said [that] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He brings with him his radio and prepares for — his — match with Lierse listening to BBC hoping for Leeds goals … and after the Wembley match he went straigth to Batty for changing shirts — i think he said that for the couple of last minutes that was the main thing — not that he had made a great goal or Norway getting a draw . |
| 2 | Perhaps he said that for the benefit of Signor fragolli , so I just said , ‘ OK . ’ |
| 3 | He said that despite the delay Devonport was still confident that , if ‘ logic , common sense and value for money prevail ’ , it would be chosen as the site for the nuclear refitting work . |
| 4 | He said that as the world 's biggest gold producer , the Soviet Union might consider using its gold stocks to guarantee the value of the rouble and of Soviet government bonds . |
| 5 | He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off ! |
| 6 | I asked him for more but he said that with the family allowance we had the same . |
| 7 | He said that on the issue of whether parents in such circumstances could claim damages , he had reached a different conclusion from Lord Prosser . |
| 8 | I ONCE read a book by Bertrand Russell in which he said that at the age of seven years ( as I remember ) he got up one night to see whether there were , in fact , four angels round his bed : |
| 9 | He said that at the party conference , those who feared they had a weak leader , could take comfort from the belief that there was a strong man waiting in the wings to take over . |
| 10 | He said that at the end of the day the appeal court was concerned with the proper interpretation of the act and the issue turned on the words used in it . |
| 11 | He said that during the war things like that happened . ) |
| 12 | And he said that in the daytime you had landmarks to go by . |
| 13 | In researching this book I read a quote from a well-known doctor working with girls with eating disorders : he said that in the West , if you are female and do not have hang-ups about your body , you are abnormal . |
| 14 | He said that in the business of insurance and insurance broking , a successful enterprise depends upon a number of factors which vary according to the nature of the customer , or client , with whom business is done . |
| 15 | He said that in the absence of such evidence such allegations were " unwise , unfair and dangerous " . |
| 16 | Some weeks beforehand , I think perhaps when we were in Japan , I had read an article that Carl had written in which he said that in the Zurich race in August , when he had trounced Ben , he had not deliberately tried to race anybody but had gone out on to the track to run his own race , do his own thing . |
| 17 | After Caldwell Lord Roskill in Seymour spoke of a very high risk of death , but he said that in the context of manslaughter caused by a car ( " motor manslaughter " ) in order to distinguish that offence from causing death by reckless driving , or at least such is the construction put on his words in Kong Cheuk Kwan v R , and Lord Roskill did uphold the trial judge 's direction which included a reference to an obvious and serious risk of physical injury . |
| 18 | Preferably by retaining the two-thirds majority , but at least ensuring as my Noble Friend Lord has suggested , a clear majority and I myself will go on reiterating the principle , enunciated by Professor in the er and also much commended by some elements in the Conservative Party and he said you can not have real effective democracy without real effective local self government , and he said that in the light of his experiences in pre-war Germany . |