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- I had to say something.
- The government has said it would wish to do this only if there was no alternative.
- `Don't worry', I said to Mother, `they are moving you from this ward soon.'
- He likes you *he said so.
- People like yourself still find new things to say about Shakespeare.
- Jane said nothing for a moment.
- `Now you'll see something', he said.
- Any doctor would say she didn't know what she was doing.
- `You play the oboe, I see,' said Simon.
- And then this woman came up to me and she said, `I believe you have a goddaughter called Celia Ravenscroft.'
- `I'm going to brush my teeth,' he said.
- You cannot say that all prisoners should be treated the same.
- I agree with every word Peter says.
- `That's very clear,' I said.
- Didn't you say the raid was contingent on the weather?
- He was frightened that something terrible might be said.
- I was worried that she'd say no.
- ...she said, with a forced smile.
- `Who invited you?' said Etta, in the pleasantest manner possible.
- They had loads of things to say about each other.
- The clerk looked at the six of them and said, `All of you?'
- She said that she would come.
- `Let's take a walk,' he said.
- The Express offered $100 to any reader who could relate what Bal had said.
- He said waltzes made him dizzy.
- This book is for any woman who has ever said `If only I knew where to find help.'
- Lonnie wants to say `sorry'.
- I regret to say rents went up.
- What did you say to Myra?
- Do you understand what I'm saying?
- If it was Haldeman, then why not say so?
- What church did you say you attend?
- How can you say such things?
- I haven't any papers to say that I have been trained.
- `There's no need' said Jimmie.*`None at all'.
- I can't say I ever had much interest in fishing.
- They marched us through the town, so that they could say to the people, `Look at the great British army.'
- A man with a list would come round and say you could go off duty.
- He can't have said that. He just can't.
- They might be able to remember what he said.
- I would have said yes, but Julie talked us into staying at home.
- You must say hello to your daughter.
- I will not hear a word said against the National Health Service.
- I would prefer to say nothing about this problem.
- `Drink, Ted?'*`I wouldn't say no, Bryan.'
- It must be said that it never really came up to expectations.
- It should also be said that I learned a great deal from the experience.
- You might say she's entitled to get angry.
- We didn't dare say that many of us would prefer to go home.
- The criminal justice system, the author says, has failed to keep pace with the drug problem.
- The Bible says love of money is the root of all evil.
- Grace says you told her to come over here.
- I was talking to one of them yesterday. She said she got roast and Yorkshire pudding.
- `We shall give him some tea,' Naomi said.
- `I will check,' said Brody.
- `I went to the doctor this morning,' she said.
- Mr. Fowler said that February had produced the best results yet.
- My watch says nine o'clock. And it's already too hot to sleep.
- Davis said he wanted to read it over lunch.
- `We have no reliable information about that yet,' he found himself saying for the third time.
- I said I'm off to Brighton for the weekend.
- `Wait a minute,' the voice said.
- They said you were out all afternoon.
- `I've been wanting to do this all day,' she said.
- `There's a massive market that side of the water,' he says, gesturing out of his window.
- The report says that hospitals and rescue services coped extremely well.
- `My wife told me to probably expect you,' he said.
- He reported accurately what they said.
- There still remains something to say. Several things, actually.
- `I'm going to do it', I said quietly.
- `Fishing?' she said in a silly way.
- `Come here,' he said in a low voice.
- Spear says she admires Lloyd's tremendously.
- Protesters say that tunnels could greatly reduce the environmental disturbance.
- I agree absolutely with what Geoffrey has said.
- Next to it is a different sign which says simply `Beware'.
- `I have expected you,' she said, inviting him inside.
- `No,' she said with a defiant look.
- `I don't know much about music,' Judy said.
- `Of course we can get married,' said Gertrude.
- `I don't see what you are getting at,' Jeremy said.
- She said that she didn't want to know.
- `Thank you,' I said.
- `I knew I'd seen you,' I said.
- He stepped back and said, `Now look at that.'
- `You see,' he said, `my father was a clergyman.'
- `You have to keep trying, Mabel,' he said.
- `That man,' I said, `never opened a window in his life.'
- `Darling,' Max said to her, `don't say it's not possible.'
- `Maybe,' he said hesitantly, `maybe there is a beast.'
- `I rang the bell,' Rudolph said, `and your friend let me in.'
- `I see,' said John.
- `Margaret,' I said to her, `I'm so glad you came.'
- Henry said that he wanted to go home.
- The woman said she had seen nothing.
- He said that the police had directed him to the wrong room.
- He wrote me a letter saying that he understood what I was doing.
- They said I had to see a doctor first.
- She says she wants to see you this afternoon.
- Georgina said she was going to bed.
- I said that I would rather work in the forest.
- All these things were trivial, he said.
- She didn't say whether he was still alive.
- I intend to say nothing for the present.
- She said you threw away her sweets.
- My doctor says it's nothing to worry about.
- Experts say that you should be precise in your accounting.
- She says she wants to see you this afternoon.
- He says he has never seen a live shark in his life.
- He said he was English.
- Mr Benn said that he had been in hospital at the time.
- Helen says I can share her flat.
- He said he really had to go back inside.
- He said you might need money.
- She said they would all miss us.
- He said they mustn't get us into trouble.
- He is said to have died a natural death.
- It was said that he could speak their language.
- A sign over the door said `Dreamland Cafe'.
- ...a notice saying that on no account should the attendants be tipped.
- The newspaper said Scotland Yard was investigating the crime.
- The road map said it was 210 kilometres to the French frontier.
- Henry said that he wanted to go home.
- It was said that some of them had become insane.
- He was said to be the oldest man in the firm.
- `Margaret,' I said to her, `I'm so glad you came.'
- I'll never possess anything, I said to myself.
- The man nodded but said nothing.
- I must have said something wrong.
- I was worried that she'd say no.
- When he stopped, no one said anything.
- I couldn't think of a single thing to say after he'd replied like that.
- The last time we talked he said he needed another two days.
- When old Thrussel died, his widow came to me and said that he wished to be buried in the churchyard.
- He came back eight months later, by which time the Japanese had decided to say yes.
- If I saw him in the street, he'd just say `Good morning.'
- He never says a word unless he feels he's being threatened in some way.
- If anyone came, they'd say `How are you?'
- If I were asked to define my condition, I'd say `bored'.
- That is why the deficit remains of key importance this year, whatever the Chancellor might say.
- She said she wanted tea ready at six so she could be out by eight.
- I hope that nobody was so stupid as to go around saying those things.
- I used to love listening to her, even though I could only understand about half of what she said.
- Nobody said a thing except that one or two asked me if I was better.
- He said he was happy where he was.
- British Rail, which has launched an enquiry, said one coach was badly damaged.
- What he said was perfectly true.
- `What do you mean by that?' said Hugh, his face pale.
- `Of course,' said Ash, astonished.
- When we embraced I couldn't say thank you*those words were far too small for someone who had risked her life to save mine.
- ...a letter saying that a brother or sister has a new bike.
- Can you say `No' to a friend or relative who wants to insist?
- `Thanks,' said Brody. He hung up, turned out the light in his office, and walked out to his car.
- `It was here that one young prisoner was sold for a bag of corn,' said the old woman. `That was me.'
- It used to be said that the oil exporting countries depended on the oil importing countries just as much as the latter depended on the former.
- You're a sensible woman*I've always said so.
- Everybody in the world, so they say, has a double.
- The door opened and a man popped his head into the room and said `Next please'. About ten minutes later, the same man returned.
- `I've never heard of him.'*`I wish I could say the same.'
- He has an excellent record of saying one thing and doing the opposite.
- I once heard a police commissioner say that we would have to learn to live with crime. The opposite is true; we have to learn not to live with crime.
- That's what I would say. But his attitude was different altogether.
- How does the Department of the Environment ensure, as it says it must, that the quality of the operation remains high?
- The government was forced to say that the report would be implemented.
- They say she's very bright.
- He knew that he would hate it if they said no.
- Foolishly, we had said we would do the decorating.
- Even sympathetic observers have said that what he's really doing is protecting his own interests.
- In fairness it should be said that he cannot be accused of a lack of objectivity.
- Finally, I want to say something about the heat pump.
- `Margaret Ravenscroft may have been responsible for her sister's death.'*`Good heavens!' said Dr Willoughby.