Example sentences of "say it [vb past] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | BRUSSELS ( AP ) — An unknown group called ‘ Young Palestine , Proud and Free ’ , in a letter to Belgian newspapers yesterday , said it had killed Joseph Wybran , a leading Belgian Jew . |
2 | Asda said it had cut prices by up to 50 per cent on more than 1,500 lines . |
3 | I said it had done Eddie a power of good . |
4 | In what looks rather like the thin end of the wedge for eventual privatisation of the phone company , BellSouth Corp yesterday said it had reached agreement to buy a 12.5% stake in France Telecom Mobiles Data SA , a newly formed unit of France Telecom . |
5 | Late last night , the Hungarian news agency MTI said it had received telephone calls reporting more than 30 killings in clashes in Cluj , while another source reported clashes in Arad , 60 miles north of Timisoara , where demonstrators were massacred last week . |
6 | The Northern Echo , based in Darlington , Co Durham , yesterday said it had received pictures of 150 terrorist suspects from a former soldier who said he wished to illustrate ‘ shambles ’ of Ulster security . |
7 | The Northern Echo yesterday said it had received pictures of 150 terrorist suspects from an ex-soldier who said he wished to illustrate ‘ the shambles of security in Northern Ireland ’ . |
8 | It said it had contacted Greece and Kenya . |
9 | The beater said it had happened years ago in a quarrying accident . |
10 | He said it had taken years . |
11 | BR said it had taken steps to control overtime and to ensure engineers were taking breaks in the hard pressed Southern Region , where skills shortages are most acute . |
12 | At that point , only one authority said it had offered training to staff on sex and sexuality , and many workers felt unable to talk directly to young people about sex . |
13 | Officers of the Muslim-led Bosnian government said it had urged President Alija Izetbegovic to return home immediately from Geneva , where he met international mediators , to underline the gravity of the crisis in the enclave . |
14 | Keith Hayes , treasurer of Middlesbrough and District Philatelic Society , which hosted this year 's convention , said it had attracted dealers from all over the North from the Tweed to the Humber . |
15 | Free Colombia also said it wanted to liquidate Escobar , but preferred to gather intelligence on his whereabouts rather than carry out attacks . |
16 | New York-based Computer Outsourcing Services Inc , which said it wanted to make acquisitions when it went public the other day , has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a private New York-based provider of billing and payroll services to companies in the home health care industry on a four-year earnout . |