Example sentences of "said that [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 An agency spokesman said that with the exception of the tropical zones , depletion of the ozone layer has been occurring at a " significant " rate throughout the world .
2 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 !
3 said that at the beginning of the year , I do n't know what way they predict this or whatever way they it goes you know
4 Er Foster and Allen are here and when I said that at the beginning of the programme it started a flurry of phone calls as to where they were .
5 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 :
6 As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon .
7 Antonia , talking in London , said that at the end of the day ‘ you are responsible for your own actions ’ .
8 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 .
9 Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made .
10 Yesterday , the advocate-depute , Elizabeth Jarvie , said that at the time of the incident , the line would have been used by freight trains carrying petroleum products from Grangemouth as well as by the London sleeper .
11 Further and/or alternatively , the judge said that under the provisions of article 13 of the Convention he considered that there was a grave risk that the return of the child would place him in an intolerable situation , and said that on that ground also he would have declined to order the return of the child .
12 Mr Bradley said that under the Treaty of Rome , British publishers have no protection against the importation of American books — published as open market editions for Continental Europe — into the UK .
13 SCO business development vice president , Jim Wilt , said that under the terms of their technology exchange pacts still in force , DEC could license pieces of ODT from SCO .
14 Perhaps he said that for the benefit of Signor fragolli , so I just said , ‘ OK . ’
15 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 .
16 He said that on the issue of whether parents in such circumstances could claim damages , he had reached a different conclusion from Lord Prosser .
17 She said that on the morning of September 18 her husband got up about 6.30am .
18 Mr Gregg said that after the success of shows like Cats and the recent record-breaking Me and My Girl , Apollo was planning to present musicals at the Playhouse for even longer runs .
19 And you said that by the end of next week you will you will have done those and know whether you want them and whether the companies probably yes ?
20 Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard .
21 The court said that in the circumstances of that case the auditor could not have been expected to act as a specialist valuer , and was therefore not liable for failing to reach that higher standard .
22 It said that in the run-up to an election , it would comment on planning opportunities based on pronouncements by political parties .
23 Mr Ram said that in the interests of press freedom he was offering The Hindu 's reports to rival newspapers .
24 On Slovak television on Aug. 21 Czechoslovakian Defence Minister Imrich Andrejcak said that in the event of a division of the federation , the army would be split up " in an organized manner under a combined command " .
25 Lord Justice Watkins said that in the case of the six officers , where two years — less 12 days — elapsed before the officers were summonsed , Mr Bartle exercised his discretion ‘ without any flaw ’ .
26 Lord Hodson said that in the case of agreements between commercial companies for regulating their trade relations the parties are usually the best judges of what is reasonable .
27 You said that in the nature of things you 've always needed the money almost as of yesterday .
28 Mum said that in the opinion of Gran , it was God 's judgement — as whilst the bridegroom was almost sixty years of age , his bride was in her early twenties .
29 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 .
30 Belkheir said that in the unrest since January 103 people had died ( a revision of the previous figure — see p. 38790 ) and 414 had been wounded .
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