Example sentences of "[noun prp] said in a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think he 's best avoided , ’ Ellen said in an unexpectedly sober voice , and suddenly , and for no particular reason on a very warm night , we both shivered . |
| 2 | ‘ Some-something of the sort , ’ Theda said in a rather husky voice , thickened with distress . |
| 3 | ‘ Then let me remind you , ’ Julius said in a very different tone of voice . |
| 4 | ‘ Portia does an impeccable rendition of Madame Chardin , ’ Marie-Hélène said in a softly mellifluous voice . |
| 5 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ Kitty said in a carefully careless tone , ‘ There is something you ought to know before that busybody Condon gets on to you about it . ’ |
| 6 | Derrida , Foucault , Kristeva , Lacan , Barthes : just reeling off their names is ( as Auden said in a very different context ) ever so comfy , since it safely defers the issues at hand to nothing less than a transcendent signified : in short , to a star . |