Example sentences of "[vb past] said [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as soon as I 'd said that , I realised it was the wrong thing to have said . |
| 2 | He 'd said that himself , had n't he ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She 'd said that once you knew about things like frogs living in flowers , you were n't the same person . |
| 5 | So I explained to him and he was very nice , er but one of the things that they 'd said that they would do , is get all the news broadcasters er to sign consent forms |
| 6 | When she 'd said that to Pascoe she 'd realized it was true . |
| 7 | If anything , she was relieved at the outcome –f that particular incident — Josie had been right when she 'd said that after going so far Lucy was now marking time and getting no further . |
| 8 | I think I see one problem with , we 've put site investigation and flagged the price I think , whereas if we 'd said that we require site investigation work to be undertaken by the project manager , we 've really got to decide the level of site investigations , so that in the first instance we 've got ta approach the soil mechanics and determine from them what , what we need from them . |
| 9 | He 'd said that as though he really meant it . |
| 10 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd said that , and was , in any case , already regretting the admission . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , she had been forced to agree with Geoffrey , her vicar , when , after a local deanery chapter meeting , he 'd said that a stranger might be forgiven for supposing that the Church of England in south London was staffed by middle-aged ex-lorry drivers , recruited via the Southwark Ordination Course , plus a sprinkling of very young men who had found their accountancy examinations too arduous . |
| 12 | Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’ |
| 13 | He 'd said that if I was asked about it , I should act surprised and say it was nothing to do with me . |
| 14 | And she had n't honestly thought he had — until just a few hours ago on the beach when he 'd said that this was goodbye . |
| 15 | David had been right when he 'd said that Rachel knew the whereabouts of Brooklands , for she had been there with her parents and her sister shortly after David and Jennifer 's engagement had been announced . |
| 16 | She opened her mouth to ask her mother why he 'd said that , and just as abruptly closed it again , realising that this was n't the time or the place to discuss private family matters . |
| 17 | if you 've got a T V remote control things Once he 'd said that he 'd . |
| 18 | but I say , I said to her that you , you 'd said that you had the biopsy within , you 'd know the results within forty eight hours , but she said oh no |
| 19 | The husband of the cleaning woman had been a soldier , and she had said that he had had no choice but to obey his orders to shoot Jews . |
| 20 | James had said that John Stewart the pedlar had seemed frantic that night — more so than the emergency warranted ? |
| 21 | Mr Baker had said that industrial sponsors would pay ‘ all or a substantial part ’ of the capital costs . |
| 22 | Earlier , Mr Waldegrave had said that ‘ We could not , of course , allow the Russians arbitrarily to exclude an expert in a key area of human rights from our delegation … |
| 23 | He had said that it was the duty of any chairman to refer an offer that came from a reputable source to his board and shareholders . |
| 24 | The important issue for me as chairman throughout that period was to remember that once the Prime Minister had said that Westland was a private-sector problem which must be solved by private-sector measures and techniques , one 's interests were obviously the shareholders , the employees , the customers and the banks , since the company was heavily indebted . |
| 25 | Mr John Bevan , prosecuting , had said that the Johnsons had lived in the house for many years but feared fire and burglars . |
| 26 | But Parliament had said that that was what judges had to do . |
| 27 | The Tottenham manager had said that his team would be tougher than the ones that were overturned by Port Vale and Bradford in notorious FA Cup defeats , and better than the one that struggled against Southend in an earlier round of this competition . |
| 28 | ITN had said that in the 12 months before the ban was imposed , 0.01 per cent of air time would have been affected and these items could have been recast into a form which complied with the directives . |
| 29 | Gillet was influenced in the liberation years by the cafe conversation of Jean Fautrier , who had said that he wanted painting in which everything previously learnt would be discarded . |
| 30 | Since the Government 's own inspectors had said that half of secondary school children were being educated in substandard buildings why did he not cancel the CTC programme and use the money to repair Britain 's crumbling schools ? |