Example sentences of "[conj] said [pers pn] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the middle there was an area open to space , just a circle of bare surface with a window all the way round it , and a sign on the window that said it was the site of the Capellan arrival in the solar system . |
| 2 | ‘ And all this from the party that said it was the party of low taxation . |
| 3 | So some bright spark produced small tasty jam-filled doughnuts and said THEY were the missing holes . |
| 4 | Then she apologised for her mask , which was indeed extraordinary , and said it was the custom of her people . |
| 5 | ‘ Friends , many of them believers , came up afterwards and said it was the most beautiful funeral they had ever been to . |
| 6 | One leading UFF figure in the area last week referred to a gun attack on a house in Jamaica Street in the Ardoyne area on St. Patrick 's night and said it was the intention to kill anyone in the house . |
| 7 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 8 | He offered a hand of reconciliation to whites and said it was the ANC 's job , as the country 's biggest political force , to address national unity and nation building . |
| 9 | The Federation of Small Businesses reacted positively to the Budget and said it was the result of the Chancellor 's meeting its representatives and listening to what they were saying . |
| 10 | One widow wrote to thank the organisers and said it was the most moving service she had ever attended . |
| 11 | ‘ She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls . |
| 12 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |
| 13 | Presently a man with greying hair and specs came in and said he was the doctor who was going to remove the polyps . |
| 14 | I laughed and said I was the same when I was young . |