Example sentences of "they said [that] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you 've got a lot of nationalism as well cos er a lot of them article forty seven when they , they said that the problem of the nation was the result of the landlords , and so there 's all this sort of nationalist and there 's also |
| 2 | The reason for this was not entirely apparent , but they said that the word power was too strong to describe their control over the employees . |
| 3 | They said that the incident had taken place in Belfast and that the photograph had been taken by a night camera . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne , North ( Mr. Henderson ) and the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey ( Mr. Hughes ) were dead right when they said that the Bill is a lost opportunity . |
| 5 | They said that the girl had entered the room in a sheer nightdress and enticed them to have sex . |
| 6 | He tries to concern us with the problem of liberals : ‘ When I trained , ’ says Gumede , an ANC guerrilla , ‘ they said that the liberal was more dangerous than the enemy . ’ |
| 7 | They said that the computer models used to support the ice theory were ‘ fabricated ’ . |
| 8 | They said that the question had not been argued before them and they expressed no opinion on it . |
| 9 | Predictably they said that the money should be going into the overall prize fund ; and , equally predictably , the sponsors replied that the money was being paid for Krantz to head up a special promotion for the company , and anyway they wanted some extra glamour and colour which a top American golfer would provide . |
| 10 | They said that the changes involve refusing to consider Europe and North America as the ‘ mirror ’ and rejecting the negative image that has been projected about Africa . |
| 11 | They said that the robbery had been made to appear like the work of the IRA in the hope that it would provoke the Irish government into introducing tougher legislation against the terrorists . |
| 12 | They said that the reason they were authoritarian was due to the pressure involved with the job . |
| 13 | They said that the shift away from permanent pasture , together with the grubbing up of hedgerows , has had " a direct and disastrous effect on starlings " . |
| 14 | place where they they were like getting er ones that had been smashed up , and doing and they said that the people that are doing it are top people ! |