His predecessor, James Plosia, who was the mayor for 26 years, said he continually had to fight the authority to get more money.

Two of them are things that... my predecessor said, just before he died.

Which is more than my predecessor could say.

She came back from London, says her predecessor with some feeling, "just as Welsh politics got interesting!"

"And your predecessor gave in, and said he did not see anything wrong with providing accurate navigational aid to everyone."

"Your predecessor would not have said that."

So my predecessors said we must face the sad business of obliging people to return home.

It is a step towards a European learning area, as my predecessor said during the first reading.

Your predecessor said earlier - we only finished the debate barely twenty minutes ago - that this report would be voted on tomorrow.

It is not something his predecessors said very often.