Example sentences of "said [pers pn] had be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Taylor said she had been urging the Government for months to make public a report by Mr Ponsford confirming the morale problems . |
| 2 | Labour frontbenchers said they had been shown a note written by Sir Terence Heiser , Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment , to Nicholas Ridley , the then Secretary of State . |
| 3 | The director of policy of the Consumers ' Association , Stephen Locke , said it had been pressing the Government to introduce the measures for some time . |
| 4 | Mr Major said he had been given a report on the particular material that was on show in a Commons committee room . |
| 5 | On Wednesday County Coun. Colin Grant , who represents the Catterick area , said he had been alerting the Army , parish councils and schools to the apparent threat of about 140 additional lorry movements one every four minutes for a ten-hour day through the garrison . |
| 6 | Mr MacArthur said : ‘ The pilot said he had been told the weather was bad on Mull and that he might fly on to Tiree . |
| 7 | There was a lengthy pause before she said he had been allowed no choice . |