Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] say that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think I 'd better say that the Steering Committee did n't seem to believe I saw an inspector . |
| 2 | If only I was this , if I 'd only said that , done the other — why always ME ? |
| 3 | He 'd only said that to get him out of Mrs Wright 's house . |
| 4 | And , while her heart raced that there was a hint in what he 'd just said that he might be prepared to sightsee with her that afternoon , ‘ You must be parched ! ’ she apologised . |
| 5 | Later during that same year , my father came home to say that a friend had a bike for sale . |
| 6 | She 'd never said that to him before — nor indeed to anyone in her whole life . |
| 7 | You may remember a few months before Christmas , I think , that the five District Councils in Oxford County joined together to say that they felt that Government housing policy was failing to deal with the growing housing crisis in Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | When she appeared in her finery at the door of his study he commented unfavourably saying that only people in mourning wore black . |
| 9 | Indeed , he went further to say that ‘ APPN is the commercial solution without any doubt , ’ and that ‘ We think that APPN will be the standard ; for routing SNA you will need APPN ’ . |
| 10 | Erm the Financial Times you showed er I think including the F T Group and Les Echo er in , in the profit analysis , but you did say that their operating profit was up ten percent th the F T Group which I take it to mean they made fourteen point three , leaving I think four point two to Les Echo You did also say that Les Echo had gone from strength to strength but f from my figures I think it 's a third successive decline in their profit . |
| 11 | Although the Select Committee on Energy did indeed say that some of the advantages that would flow from the privatisation of the electricity industry in Northern Ireland were not entirely dependent on privatisation for their achievement , we accepted that privatisation would accelerate that achievement , and in that sense , we certainly welcome the privatisation . |
| 12 | All but one of those who previously answered affirmatively said that the discrepancy was resolved . |
| 13 | Mhm , he did actually say that he thought it was highly unlikely |
| 14 | You , you did actually say that I only work on , yeah |
| 15 | This , I thought , rather an excessively sympathetic comment — I had only said that I was very sorry that Roger [ Hinks ] had been transferred . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought I had better say that , or you might not come . |
| 17 | In the hotel the count had merely said that they would stay with him , not with his sister and himself . |
| 18 | ‘ Their marketing people had already said that the product had no future in angling , ’ Chilton said . |
| 19 | The Investment Managers Regulatory Organisation had already said that , as a result of responses to its own proposals for individuals in member firms to be trained up to and tested on a certain level of competence , it was having to reconsider them with an obvious impact on its meeting its 1 January 1994 deadline . |
| 20 | An EPLF representative in Washington , Tesfai Ghermazien , had meanwhile said that a " major breakthrough " might be possible if the Ethiopian government were to offer a referendum on independence for Eritrea . |
| 21 | No , no , not , not sort of getting at , anyway I had just said that to father you see |
| 22 | He had always said that Rose Lacson , the woman he met in one of Manila 's finest hotels and brought back to live in a mansion that she designed , would inherit his iron-ore wealth . |
| 23 | Nick had always said that his Jockey Club duties came before his business . |
| 24 | The guards had always said that they were n't bothered about anyone in British gaols , so we 'd hoped it would be easier for us to get out than for the others . |
| 25 | Her cousin Liz had always said that Ross reminded her of a ferocious , hungry lion gliding smoothly through the tall grass of life , looking for his supper ! |
| 26 | No one had ever said that they liked him . |
| 27 | In a very Vincent-like move he wrote home to say that he had had to buy two secondhand pairs of trousers and two coats , as well as underwear and shoes . |
| 28 | I was happy because I was now ‘ on the inside ’ , doing war-work and feeling , for the first time , that we were really a partnership ; and I was proud that I had grown more confident , and mature enough to take Leslie as he was , and no longer demanded — as he had once said that I did — that he be the White Knight . |
| 29 | Randy Rarick had once said that ‘ to be declared world champion after a two-foot day at Manly just was n't significant . ’ |
| 30 | He had once said that he did n't know whether his passion for water-power was a result of meanness or had some deeper Freudian significance . |