Example sentences of "the [noun] have just said " in BNC.
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1 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
2 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that , entirely contrary to what the Leader of the Opposition has just said , the settlement that he has won will be welcomed by the overwhelming majority of people in this country ? |
3 | Admiral Hawkins , as the General has just said , is in a position of having to cope with almost impossible circumstances which , as you are in a position to know better than most , involves making almost impossible decisions . |
4 | ‘ The captain has just said it will be six hours and forty-five minutes , ’ said the Thing . |
5 | But I 'm very concerned with what the surveyor 's just said about regarding Road . |
6 | ‘ The pilot has just said we 're diverting to Teeside because of the fog at Newcastle — we 're taxiing out now , ’ she said . |
7 | The subject of this year 's symposium , as the Councillor has just said , is using the media — we 'll hear more about that later . |
8 | If it is obvious to both of them that what the speaker has just said is false , or so obvious as to need no comment at all , the hearer will look for implications , that is to say what is implied other than what is expressed . |
9 | The victim , anxious to co-operate , would open his mouth to confirm that he was , indeed , everything the man had just said , only to be told to shut up . |
10 | ‘ One of the humans has just said , ‘ It must have been a mouse or something , ’ and the other one said , ‘ You show me a mouse wearing clothes and I 'll admit it was a mouse . ’ |
11 | ‘ One of the humans has just said , ‘ I looked round and there it was , staring out of the window . ’ ‘ |
12 | In what the Minister has just said , I detect exactly the same argument that he and many others used to justify the flat rate principle of the poll tax . |