Example sentences of "said [that] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He said that despite the delay Devonport was still confident that , if ‘ logic , common sense and value for money prevail ’ , it would be chosen as the site for the nuclear refitting work . |
2 | Chief executive Bill Cockburn said that despite the recession Royal Mail had increased ‘ efficiency and productivity to such an extent that we are able to share this success with our customers ’ . |
3 | An agency spokesman said that with the exception of the tropical zones , depletion of the ozone layer has been occurring at a " significant " rate throughout the world . |
4 | He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off ! |
5 | I asked him for more but he said that with the family allowance we had the same . |
6 | said that at the beginning of the year , I do n't know what way they predict this or whatever way they it goes you know |
7 | Er Foster and Allen are here and when I said that at the beginning of the programme it started a flurry of phone calls as to where they were . |
8 | The Victorians said that at the dinner table you should not discuss sex , politics or religion . |
9 | I ONCE read a book by Bertrand Russell in which he said that at the age of seven years ( as I remember ) he got up one night to see whether there were , in fact , four angels round his bed : |
10 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
11 | Antonia , talking in London , said that at the end of the day ‘ you are responsible for your own actions ’ . |
12 | He said that at the end of the day the appeal court was concerned with the proper interpretation of the act and the issue turned on the words used in it . |
13 | said , said that at the moment we 're paying twenty per cent , twenty per cent er Poll Tax erm we 're on about thirty five pound a week , the full grant , that 's how much we get you know if you level it out you know |
14 | I 'd go a little bit further and say well it 'd be much more likely that husband and wife would be in the master bedroom with in the small bedroom , but as you say er the adults or anybody indeed in the flat is likely to be in the bedrooms at that time , but Sergeant you see went a bit further and said that at the briefing , somehow he got information that was likely to be in the master bedroom so I understand your evidence , you certainly did n't get that impression at the brief . |
15 | He said that at the party conference , those who feared they had a weak leader , could take comfort from the belief that there was a strong man waiting in the wings to take over . |
16 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
17 | Yesterday , the advocate-depute , Elizabeth Jarvie , said that at the time of the incident , the line would have been used by freight trains carrying petroleum products from Grangemouth as well as by the London sleeper . |
18 | Mr Templeton said that at the time there had been no lifting equipment there . |
19 | And in fact er we said that at the time the white paper was published . |
20 | When she objected to him sharing the blame with the editor , he brushed her aside and said that without the keys a lot of information would have been kept from him . |
21 | It said that during the quarter it greatly improved product delivery time to its resellers , and recorded the highest volume quarter in its history . |
22 | He said that during the war things like that happened . ) |
23 | Yesterday Mr Patten said that under the Bill as it now stands he will be able to demand a re-run of voting on grant-maintained status where he has evidence it was not fairly conducted . |
24 | If Tipton Scouts have written to us and said that under the grant that we 're trying to give tonight , towards . |
25 | Patrick Moss , director of legal aid in Hong Kong , said that under the scheme , a successful litigant paid between 10 and 12 per cent of his damages to a central fund which financed other cases . |
26 | Further and/or alternatively , the judge said that under the provisions of article 13 of the Convention he considered that there was a grave risk that the return of the child would place him in an intolerable situation , and said that on that ground also he would have declined to order the return of the child . |
27 | Michael Alison , Tory MP for Selby , said that under the act a jury has to decide whether the material has a tendency to deprave or corrupt . |
28 | Mr Bradley said that under the Treaty of Rome , British publishers have no protection against the importation of American books — published as open market editions for Continental Europe — into the UK . |
29 | SCO business development vice president , Jim Wilt , said that under the terms of their technology exchange pacts still in force , DEC could license pieces of ODT from SCO . |
30 | Perhaps he said that for the benefit of Signor fragolli , so I just said , ‘ OK . ’ |