Volokhov Igor
МПИ-11-1
11.04.2012
Indirect speech
Indirect speech: statements peg 307-8,313
I said that I had something to show her.
She said that nothing grew in her garden. It never got any sun.
He said to his mother that he was going away the next day.
Rupert said that he had been in London for a month but he hadn’t had time to visit the Tower.
I remarked that it wasn’t so foggy that day as it had been the day before.
BBC announcer said that the new underpass was being officially opened two days later.
My aunt said that they had moved into their new flat and that they din’t like it so much as their last one.
They said that they had a lift but it didn’t work often.
He said that he could see the Eiffel Tower from the one of the windows of his flat.
His daughter said that she had no idea what time it was but she would dial 8081 and found out.
He said that his wife had just been made a judge.
She replied that she would come with me as soon as she was ready.
The small boy said that he had a German lesson this afternoon and he hadn’t done his homework.
I warned her that she would scorch her clothes if she let the iron got too hot.
He pointed out that I hadn’t given him quite enough and that the bill was for J14 and I’d paid him only J13.
Ann said that Englishmen made good husbands because they were nearly always willing to help in the house.
Mary answered that she liked men to be useful but she didn’t like them to be too domesticated and she preferred them to keep out of the kitchen altogether because men looked silly in aprons anyway.
Motoring report informed that the new Rolls Royce ran so quietly that all you could hear was the ticking of the clock.
Managing director of the Rolls Royce company replied that in this case they would have to do something about the clock.
She said that she didn’t know what to do with all of her plants. She supposed that she would have make jam, but the trouble was that no one of them ate it.
Builders explained that they liked to work on Sundays because of double pay.
He presumed himself a good cook and he did all his own washing and mending too.
Joan said that I could keep that one if I liked it because he had got plenty of others.
The small boy said that he was going into the garden to dig for worms because he and his mother were going fishing that afternoon.
I said crossly that his umbrella was in his bedroom and he had got mine at the moment.
The private detective told his client that he has bugged their phone and he knew exactly what they had said.
He said that he would sit up till she came in, but he hoped she wouldn’t be late.
My cousin told me that if I gave him some wire he would hang that picture for me.
She said that Turkish bath didn’t seem to make any different to her weight.
The salesman said that that was quite a good model and he used one of those himself.
She said that her new house was supposed to be haunted, but she hadn’t seen any ghosts though.
The advertisement told me if I answered the questions correctly I might win J100.
He said that he could hear what people in the next flat were saying if he pressed his ear against the wall.