These are the exact words I have been asked to give you.

Those were the exact words I had been told to use.

Though they were too far away for him to hear the exact words.

I asked the class if anyone could remember the exact words.

How many other women had he said those exact words to?

Or so he said, though not in those exact words.

Thus the exact words used at the meeting are not known.

Let me see if I can get her exact words right.

Not the exact words but you get the point I am sure.

She could not remember now the exact words either of them had used.