Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] 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 | It would be good for the Hong Kong citizens , and it would be inconsistent for Thatcher not to do this , since she has said , for the Falklands , that a people should be able to choose their own government , and we should n't give in to dictatorships . |
| 3 | If she starts talking about sexual matters they may jump in hastily , saying , ‘ Do n't talk about that ’ without explaining why they are disturbed by what she has said . |
| 4 | But she has said nothing of that . |
| 5 | If the Queen lives to 92 — and she has said she wo n't abdicate — Charles would be 70 before coming to the throne . |
| 6 | One said : ‘ By saying what she has said , one can only draw the conclusion that she turned to the Queen and the Duke because her marriage is in trouble and she is desperately unhappy . |
| 7 | ‘ I use a condom even if I have a long-term relationship , ’ she has said . |
| 8 | But she has said she does not believe she will be crowned . |
| 9 | Sybil 's reaction has to be assumed : she has said very little . |
| 10 | And , in an oblique attack on the partiality of judges , she has said she wants a commission to review appointments to the higher levels of the judiciary . |
| 11 | The casualness , and implicit disvaluation of her contained in that form , are exposed by her reply in verse : Even after her thirty-line speech of pathos and wifely love , describing his disturbed dreams , when Hotspur answers it is in the verse of public business , ignoring all that she has said : ‘ What ho ! |
| 12 | ‘ Half her past life with Italians , half with the English , now it will be new ground as she has said . |
| 13 | Moreover , since it is said in a context where Adam has just manifestly failed to react to the punch-line as quickly as the set of other students , the speaker ( given this type of speaker to this type of hearer in this type of surroundings ) will be assumed not to be intending to tell an untruth , but to be implicating the opposite of what she has said . |
| 14 | Yes I have spoken to Mrs who is the er er the woman involved and what she has said is this , the We ca n't directly we ca n't directly get hold of it , they wo n't send it out into the community . |
| 15 | She has said nothing of this to me , and as her father I really ought to know , I think , what she , and you , propose to do , even if in the modern fashion you do not choose to ask me for my blessing . ’ |
| 16 | She would only say what she has said already . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She has said she will be staying on , at her own expense of course , until the opening of Zarewitsch . |
| 18 | She has said more than once it was her favourite haunt , ’ said the spokesman . |
| 19 | She has said she will not give a penny until she is entirely satisfied the unit will go ahead as planned . |
| 20 | I have no doubt wha did I not tell you about the fact that I hit the roof when he said that she has said that when he was twenty one , she was going to buy him a Vauxhall Chevette . |
| 21 | But erm she said she has said that we could do this and she said that 's fine , she said . |
| 22 | The owner of the London stage school which she attends said she turned up to school every day with the right lunch money and with her uniform clean . |
| 23 | Need to know what she 's said — who she 's said it to . |
| 24 | Well we do n't know for sure yet about what she 's said about you . |
| 25 | She did all our garage round it , she 's said it worth it , well , it 's been there twelve months , she would n't put it on anywhere else . |
| 26 | No , she 's said , she , she ai n't got the courage to ask her for more money , so I said well just give it a few more weeks and then Anne and Brian 's turn up , if it do n't get any better then , I 'm afraid you got Anne and Brian 's . |
| 27 | She said I 've paid that , that 's not a hassle or , anyway she 's paid it , she 's said that 's not a hassle , but er , I thought well maybe I some money , I do n't know , what do you normally pay on these things , twenty five , twenty six ? |
| 28 | She 's said I 'm welcome to come up . |
| 29 | I wonder if it 's that one up beside Asda because when I 've gone in before she 's said to me you know if you rang them through I 'd have them ready for you or |
| 30 | Guess what she 's said she 's gon na write to go on the pill ! |