Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] say [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got out of bed , packed a suitcase , wrote a note for Richard saying I was leaving him , and walked to the station . |
| 2 | A Hollywoood spokesman for Kidman said she could not be contacted . |
| 3 | A spokesman for LEEL said they wanted the event to continue , adding : ‘ However , our involvement was in helping to establish the feasibility of the first event . |
| 4 | Steve White of Swindon says they 've still got some tough teams to play but they are in good form and if they do n't get into the play-offs it will be their fault |
| 5 | Andrew Collins of NME said it was ‘ A bold experiment with verve and fresh breath ’ Mr Spencer at Sounds said it was ‘ spellbinding ’ and Tim Nicholson at Record Mirror thought it was ‘ Riotously enjoyable and uniquely stupid . ’ |
| 6 | Stewart Purvis , editor in chief of ITN said he was delighted with the new look . |
| 7 | • The mayor of Phoenix said he was encouraged by the positive response to the grand prix from the city . |
| 8 | The makers of Lamisil , Sandoz Pharmaceuticals of Surrey say they tested the drug for 5 years before using it on humans . |
| 9 | PRESIDENT NAJIBULLAH of Afghanistan says he has no intention of resigning and the United States and Pakistan should accept reality and negotiate with him . |
| 10 | Both the ECGD and Bank of Scotland said they would not comment until the programme had been shown . |
| 11 | A leading social work official in another part of Scotland said he was concerned that their staff were not properly trained , particularly in the field of disclosure work with children . |
| 12 | The Royal Bank of Scotland said it had pulled out because it saw no continuing need for its participation . |
| 13 | In response , the Bank of England said it did not accept the conclusions the committee had drawn from the Bingham Report . |
| 14 | It came on a day of positive signs for the British economy , with the Bank of England saying it thought inflation would remain below the Government 's target of 4 per cent for the next two years , and cautious indications of a pick-up in high street spending . |
| 15 | The estranged wife of the Marquis of Blandford says he 's making a real effort to get back on the straight and narrow . |
| 16 | as two apostles of Jesus said we 've been declared righteous now by his word , the boy of Jesus God 's son |
| 17 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 18 | Near the end of Hakim 's disturbing testimony — bakhshish , back-scratching , dedicated bank accounts — Senator Trible of Virginia said he found it ‘ part James Bond and part Jimmy Durante , and it would be very laughable , but for the consequences for people and policy . ’ |
| 19 | Frank Judd chairman of Oxfam says he would like to see a number of new developments in the Cambodian situation . |
| 20 | The next anyone heard from him was a post card from the south of France saying he wanted to start a fresh life . |
| 21 | The govenor of Bullingdon says it 's been a very rough patch . |
| 22 | Mr Bob Worcester of Mori said it was ‘ the worst result for the opinion polls since they were invented ’ . |
| 23 | Quality Beef Growers of York says it will be supplying 30,000 carcasses a year to retailers . |
| 24 | The alternative vision is the one that I subscribe to , and along with me , most historians in this country and in America , and indeed increasingly erm a young generation of German historians , and this is that things began to go wrong well before nineteen fourteen , and that the Germans in fact deliberately started the First World War as the Treaty of Versailles said they did , that nineteen eighteen was not therefore the beginning of the evil , but merely a hiccup in erm a German attempt to conquer Europe , erm as it were , a play with two acts , the first act being nineteen fourteen to eighteen , and then the second act being nineteen thirty-nine to forty-five , two attempts to dominate the continent of Europe by military force . |
| 25 | Askari Security Services of Norwich said it was for poor work rate . |
| 26 | A spokeswoman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said it had a network of volunteers ‘ monitoring the situation ’ throughout the province . |
| 27 | The organisers of Telethon say they do consult disabled people about the event and feel such an opinion is a minority one . |
| 28 | THE Archbishop of Canterbury said he would be amazed if there was any large scale defection from the Church of England after last week 's decision to ordain women . |
| 29 | The suggestion that er we should join this er , I mean first of all I think that 's if they would allow us to join it , and obviously we realise why they want to join this , rather to the Archbishop of Canterbury saying he would like to join er sit in his cabinet and , and , this , this that sort of level of discussion . |
| 30 | THE Prince of Wales says he really valued his chats with the Queen Mother and his late uncle , Lord Mountbatten . |