Example sentences of "[pron] have said " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ If critics have any reason for existence , ’ one of them has said , ‘ this is it : to give assurance of value , and to provide somehow perhaps anyhow — the means by which readers may be put in possession of the valuable book . ’ |
2 | He said as he stepped on the ‘ plane : ‘ I would love to come back for another season at Portadown — but no-one has said anything to me . |
3 | no I feel about a I I 'll I 've said to Ann , no I feel alright Ann but you know just I du n no I 'm not quite myself am I ? |
4 | Jamie Spence shot a last round 60 to win the Canon European Masters , then heard that someone has said he could have smashed the course record with a 58 — and had blown it ! |
5 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |
6 | fair point , its still er , I mean its a considerable number , I mean you can see why the insurance company 's are doing quite well , but your willing to put up with that as well for the , for the good points of a car , for the freedom that er , that cars give you and the safety someone has said , the individual safety as a woman , yes . |
7 | It should be made clear that if anyone does not understand what someone has said they should always ask , and that this is meeting time well spent . |
8 | ’ If I had a decacred for every time someone has said that … |
9 | Someone has said that the assets of Hampshire Bus were worth $ 2 million . |
10 | As someone has said , it has three words beginning with the letter P — it is a philosophy armed with a plan and fought with passion . |
11 | Someone has said I 'm a well-known gangland figure , and I probably ran into an ambush when I tried to return home . |
12 | I 'd said to her nervously . |
13 | And , as soon as I 'd said that , I realised it was the wrong thing to have said . |
14 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
15 | Gareth 's ‘ BACK FOR GRUB ’ message was still pinned to the corkboard , and it was with a distinct sense of release that I remembered I 'd said that I would go back for his camera . |
16 | ‘ Let her lie , ’ I 'd said , nodding . |
17 | Wryly I 'd said , ‘ I will . ’ |
18 | ‘ Cretin ’ , he glared at me as if I 'd said it . |
19 | I 'd said to Mr Palmer in 1960 after St Andrews that I 'd caddie for him anywhere . |
20 | If I 'd said no , he 'd have booked somebody else . ’ |
21 | And as soon as I 'd said it I realised how odd it was , Kelly without a cigarette , without fiddling with the packet and dropping matches on the floor . |
22 | ‘ But we do n't need a fucking abortionist , ’ I 'd said , ‘ we want a bloody mid-wife . ’ |
23 | She repeated what I 'd said . |
24 | He started saying all the things I 'd said about myself . |
25 | WHEN the artist Whistler came up with a memorable quip , Oscar Wilde observed wistfully : ‘ I wish I 'd said that . ’ |
26 | It seemed he had become confused over the time I 'd said I 'd pick him up , although it was always the same , and Miss Prescott thought he was a little agitated and so brought him round herself . |
27 | They seemed delighted that I 'd said it , and to know just what I meant . |
28 | I was glad I 'd said it so I just kept my head down and played on . |
29 | But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting . |
30 | I thought that at least part of what I 'd said had satisfied him . |