Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] said that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hostess came to greet me , and in reply to my question said that chicken curry was cooking , which I ordered with satisfaction . |
| 2 | My secretary said that Lindsay had just rung to say I should send over the goods ( our agreed coded message ) as soon as possible . |
| 3 | I like it 'cos you know when Daphne had a car crash , just because Jamie was in the car , my brother said that Jamie crashed the car and when the coffee shop blew up … my brother said 'cos Bronwyn was holding the baby when she saw it , he said that Jamie blew the coffee shop up [ laughs ] . |
| 4 | ‘ She informed us all she had some very bad news and through her tears said that King George VI had died , ’ recalls Margery Burton , of Redworth Road , Shildon . |
| 5 | When Henry VIII and his Parliament said that England was an empire they simply wanted to say that it was a sovereign state independent of the Pope 's judicial authority . |
| 6 | His Honour said that J 's dyslexia ‘ would appear to give him significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of his age ’ , and that J 's high intelligence was ‘ neither here nor there ’ in relation to the specific cause of the learning difficulty . |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't have troubled you , Miss Gillingham , ’ said Suvarov , ‘ but that your housekeeper said that Mrs Gillingham is seriously ill . |