Example sentences of "say he [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say he fought twenty men , including her brothers and her father , to win her . ’ |
| 2 | He says he saw one person fall but he was n't hrut and it seems safe . |
| 3 | He says he saw one job but that 's already gone and that was last week . |
| 4 | Claire says she started climbing with her brothers and Allan says he saw some people climbing when he was youth hostelling and thought that 's the sport for me … |
| 5 | Two sons aged fifteen and four , and a daughter of one year old , were mentioned in the 1871 census , but A. W. Humphrey ( see below ) says he had five children to support . |
| 6 | Terry B says he had some treatment and lots of help from friends … he goes to meetings every week and he 's enjoying life and taking one day at a time … he 's had one innings and is now enjoying his second |
| 7 | MINTO : Paxford says the B set is easier ; Paxford says he got forty stations on it : he made it work beautifully . |
| 8 | Mr Tomlinson says he spent two months solidly working from 5.30am in the morning until 10.30 in the evening , including weekends . |
| 9 | He says he spent two weeks in hospital when he was helpless and that brought it all home to him . |
| 10 | Hanna was very interested in our latest developments for vertical take-off and Mickie says he spent some time discussing this subject with her . |
| 11 | The Department of Transport report says he made several errors while demonstrating a hover manoevre resulting in the crash . |
| 12 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 13 | Father-of-three Mr Simon says he regretted fitting moto-cross motorcycle tyres , which for all but about 100metres of the rally were the wrong choice . |
| 14 | He says he bought another Amiga . |
| 15 | In Nicodemus , Kansas , the sole remaining town of black settlers on the plains , Mr Frazier says he found true joy watching the people at a dance . |
| 16 | The man who says he named both pieces of software is former 386BSD project leader and principal developer of BSD 2.8 and 2.9 , Bill Jolitz . |
| 17 | like that , and he said it was ever so funny , he took fifty up there because , I bet he told you about the money betting and all that and he 's said he bet fifty pound , he thought christ he said , I was bloody lucky he said I , I had the , I said well David . |
| 18 | The UN had not said he deserved political asylum . |
| 19 | At midnight , David kissed her gently and left shortly afterwards , saying he hoped that snow had n't blocked the roads . |
| 20 | Mr Lamont , who sees the Budget as his attempt at political rehabilitation , was boastful , saying he believed last year 's Budget had contributed to the Tory victory at the election and this one would also prove a winner in the next election in 1996 ‘ or whenever the election comes ’ . |
| 21 | I first knew it unmistakably when Herr Sussmeyer replied to my first letter , saying he had this quest for pubic hairs because he loved and respected women so much . |
| 22 | It would have been more accurate to say he preferred that version of events to any other , but one lie had committed him now to several distortions . |
| 23 | MEGIDDO , Israel ( Reuter ) — A Syrian air force major yesterday landed a Soviet-made MiG-23 fighter in Israel and an army statement said he requested political asylum , becoming the first Arab airman to do so in more than 20 years . |
| 24 | Of the six hundred or so communicants , Baxter said he had good hopes for the sincerity of the faith of all but twelve of them . |
| 25 | ‘ At the same time , the saddest call I ever had was from a boy who said he had marvellous parents who gave him everything . |
| 26 | And I think it was Kipling who said he had six serving maids Who , What , Where , Why , When and How . |
| 27 | But Kingfisher director , Mr Archie Norman , said he had total confidence in brokers Phillips and Drew , despite the fact that much of the trading had been done through them . |
| 28 | Gordon Bateman , who had been planning to set up an agency in Reading , Berkshire , said he had two meetings with Steen . |
| 29 | He said he had two sisters but that he was the only and beloved son . |
| 30 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson , said he had one weapon with which to beat inflation : the interest rate . |