Example sentences of "[adv] he said the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But yesterday he said the MP had ‘ failed miserably ’ . |
| 2 | Oh it 's doing it again it 's doing it again , dear oh yes , doing it again erm I had the plumber up to look at that cos I thought the plumbing was all wrong and he said no he said the plumbing is wrong the waste pipe of the en suite shower and the bath are connected , and they should n't be they should be separate , but they had been connected and that is bad but no , he said , what 's happening is quite simple , he said erm the people using the en suite ca n't control the water it 's going out he said the curtain does n't fit flush against the wall , because the wall leans , you know |
| 3 | well he said the house is going up for sale , I think he thinks I 'll be patient in that direction , it 's not that , it 's just that if it was a nice house , a normal house where the kids can play out on a nice day and just hang the washing out , I could be getting on with it |
| 4 | Then he said the father ought to be ashamed of himself , using children who should be in school to make money , and that one day the police would find him . |
| 5 | He 's got a musical test which says do n't they 're tired they 're tired and then he said the pig says I 'm not and then the people said Oh dear and then he said I 'm hungry and then they said they 're hungry and he says I 'm not and he 's sleepy . |
| 6 | He left economy-watchers scratching their heads when he said the slump had ‘ hidden ’ the real upward trends in the country 's prosperity . |
| 7 | Er we did we were gon na raise a point on that the clash of the regulatory rules and the producery duty of under trust law , you know and I I think there you know there there was a comment that that I picked up with Professor Gower you know in his report which I think where he said the Government obviously have greater confidence than I in reliance on pristine trust law in relation to modern commercial developments such as unit trusts and occupational pension schemes , which its founding fathers never contemplated . |
| 8 | Er well we did , we were gon na raise a point on that , the clash of the regulatory rules and the duty of under Trust Law , you know , and I , I think there , there was a comment tha that I picked up with Professor Gower you know in his report which I think , where he said the Government obviously have greater confidence than I in reliance on pristine Trust Law in relation to modern commercial developments such as unit trusts and occupational pension schemes , which its founding fathers never contemplated . |
| 9 | Deputy US trade representative Rufus Yerxa revealed the move before a meeting in Geneva of the governing council of Gatt ( General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ) where he said the approval would be sought . |
| 10 | Lt Col Stewart has been reporting to the UN on some of the dreadful conditions suffered by refugees at the front-line town of Maglaj , where he said the situation was ‘ disgraceful . ’ |