Example sentences of "they said " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when I left Central School in 1966 they said the average life for a woman in the theatre was three years and seven for a man before giving it up . |
| 2 | ‘ I checked with the Exchange about your early morning caller and they said it was n't local , but a connection from Edinburgh . |
| 3 | ‘ They said it would be as soon as possible — but it takes years for some people . |
| 4 | They said definitely a flat . |
| 5 | ‘ Happy Birthday , Jay , ’ they said , all her favourite friends and Lucy . |
| 6 | We do swear — ’ He paused , and a murmur followed him with some clearer , harsher voices audible amongst it : ‘ We do swear — ’ He went on : ‘ Never to swerve , ’ and they said it together , ‘ Never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — or this oppressive Act . |
| 7 | They said there was a wild night or it somewhere down about Ballinluig . |
| 8 | They said it could never happen , but in an act many will regard as nothing short of vandalism , an outdoor centre has negotiated privately with the owners of Brock Holes quarry in the Peak to place up to 50 bolts to secure a rope handrail across the rock . |
| 9 | They said my father looked a bit like Clark Gable , bold and bad , by all accounts a big guy . |
| 10 | The Pierrot restaurant at the Mandarin , they said , achieved some ‘ great successes , ’ but also some ‘ real disasters ’ . |
| 11 | More likely , they said , was that China would continue to modernise its economy , so that by 1997 the situation would be more one of China 's adjusting to Hong Kong , than of Hong Kong 's trimming itself to China . |
| 12 | Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , worked for a solution in telephone calls with East German , Czechoslovak and Polish leaders , they said . |
| 13 | I recall a Saturday midday lecture to Oxford undergraduate and graduate students in the 1970s when , after riveting them with a talk about double fluorescent labelling , he asked if they would be interested in hearing about experiments on motor systems ; they said they would and they abandoned lunch to listen . |
| 14 | He tries to concern us with the problem of liberals : ‘ When I trained , ’ says Gumede , an ANC guerrilla , ‘ they said that the liberal was more dangerous than the enemy . ’ |
| 15 | Morale is high , especially after the mujahedin failed to capture Jalalabad as they said they would . |
| 16 | They said that about Sadat : ‘ How can you trust him ? |
| 17 | They said Mr Baker was simply listing one possibility among a number of other courses open to Mikhail Gorbachev in his restructuring programme . |
| 18 | They said that the computer models used to support the ice theory were ‘ fabricated ’ . |
| 19 | The evidence , including autopsies and eye-witness statements , pointed to a fire on board the DC-8 before it crashed , they said . |
| 20 | They said afterwards that Mr Patten listened sympathetically but gave no specific response . |
| 21 | Students should not be expected to learn in ‘ cowsheds ’ , they said . |
| 22 | They said everyone living in the building was accounted for . |
| 23 | They said speculation focused on BP because it has expressed interest in refining and marketing in the western US . |
| 24 | They said the case was prejudiced by a campaign by the Communist party to mount a political attack on Fiat . |
| 25 | They said I had a white voice . |
| 26 | They said they had come to Britain because they did not need a visa and because they thought it was a free country . |
| 27 | They said they had to pay heavy bribes to get passports to leave Turkey . |
| 28 | They said the failure to give full reasons for the intended slaughter and the absence of any factual basis for the action justified the High Court in blocking the order . |
| 29 | I only had about two inches of rectum left , and they said cancer was a possibility , so they just took it all out . |
| 30 | The company and its solicitors , Jeffrey Green Russell , could not elaborate on the reasons for the action against Mr Swales as they said the matter was sub judice . |