Example sentences of "say [pron] had [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as as I say they had to put all the mens name in the hat and pick them out and put up a roster and they had their turn of going down the bread week by week . |
| 2 | You , you were saying you had to visit each of those four lodging houses |
| 3 | ‘ After that I told Sir Alfred of my plans for a monocoque car for the next season , and got a sour letter back saying we had to win another grand prix before we talked about anything . |
| 4 | The letters were placed in the House of Commons library , with a covering note from Mr Nicholas Ridley , the present Trade Secretary , to Mr Gordon Brown , Labour 's trade spokesman , saying he had done this in view of the public interest . |
| 5 | He said everyone had to have some relaxation . |
| 6 | Because yo di I said I had to send that agreement because you 're failing to meet the standard agreement , you 're not paying within the twenty eight days or the thirty days ! |
| 7 | ‘ The boy drove the whole way to Dublin on his half day to bring you home and then drove straight back and said you had to see another doctor . |
| 8 | Because of this she felt generous and said she had realised some time ago that a really beautiful man was very much more beautiful than the most beautiful woman , and was n't that interesting . |
| 9 | Cindy , 26 , the wife of movie heart-throb Richard Gere , said she had seen some ‘ pretty sad ones ’ . |
| 10 | At one stage , she said she had experienced some conflict ‘ like being in two places at once ’ but soon realized that her real attachment was to her adoptive parents . |
| 11 | Mrs Cass said she had bought many of her pets but had taken some abandoned by their owners and had found others running wild in the street . |
| 12 | ‘ You said we had to avoid each other . ’ |
| 13 | This is not often mentioned in the documents , but two of the surviving women compositors I was able to interview said they had started this way . |
| 14 | It is only if someone can do , has learnt , is master of , such-and-such , that it makes sense to say he had had this experience . |
| 15 | But the resistance has already scored an important propaganda victory against government forces , only a week after Vietnam said it had withdrawn all its troops from Cambodia . |
| 16 | American Express , which has put a ‘ fraud alert ’ warning on its April statements , said it had refunded all complainants in full . |
| 17 | American Express , which has put a ‘ fraud alert ’ warning on its April statements , said it had refunded all complainants in full . |
| 18 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
| 19 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
| 20 | He said he had to conduct some business with the grain merchant . |
| 21 | Michael Goodman , spokesman for the Lower Ormeau Residents ' Action Group , said he had hoped any problems would have been ironed out following a meeting with Laganside , the DoE and the contractors last month . |
| 22 | He said he had made several attempts to persuade the developers , Peter and Reay Campbell , to alter it . |
| 23 | He said he had asked many times before , but he needed to tell me something first . |
| 24 | Last night Mr Stephenson , of Limbrick Avenue , Fairfield , Stockton , said he had seen many dead bodies since , but the memory of May 's brutal murder has never left him . |
| 25 | People said he had broken many hearts already . |
| 26 | Dr Kumar said he had realised many Labour supporters shared his sense of deep shock after the election . |
| 27 | Manor said he had given this dispensation on 40 occasions . |
| 28 | Fletcher said he had spoken several times to Ramprakash this winter in an effort to help point the highly talented player in the right direction . |
| 29 | One said he had spent some time in South Africa : ‘ The whites used their Bible to do down the black people . ’ |
| 30 | As an example of US energy inefficiency , he said he had spent more time going to and from meetings during the Houston summit than in the meetings themselves . |