Example sentences of "was quote [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One group was quoted as ranting at a young police woman : ‘ We 're going to cut your belly open . |
| 2 | Coetzee was quoted as telling the Johannesburg Sunday Times that he had refused to accept the parcel , in October 1990 , because of the duty he was asked to pay . |
| 3 | Savimbi was quoted as telling the congress that the war was over " from a philosophical and spiritual point of view " . |
| 4 | ‘ Neither the milk market nor the budget can take it , ’ the EC farm commissioner , Rene Steichen , was quoted as telling ministers . |
| 5 | Ramaema on May 13 announced the repeal of legislation banning political parties and was quoted as promising a restoration of democracy by means of elections by June 1992 . |
| 6 | ( The Iraqi News Agency was quoted as reporting on Aug. 3 that Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid , at a meeting with the Iraqi and Yemeni delegations in Istanbul on Aug. 3 , had expressed support for the ending of the blockade . ) |
| 7 | The senior Molby fell out of favour when he was quoted as criticising Danish tactics in interviews published in Denmark . |
| 8 | The senior Molby fell out of favour when he was quoted as criticising Danish tactics in interviews published in Denmark . |
| 9 | In one of my-newspaper clippings , he was quoted as having said , ‘ I make my own luck . ’ |
| 10 | After Iraq was condemned for its use of chemical weapons , President Khamenei was quoted as having wished the UN had gone on to take steps against both Iraq and the states which had provided it with the means to manufacture such weapons . |
| 11 | Sir : In your interesting article ( 30 September ) about the sale to the British Library by Lord Norwich ( for a sum left tantalisingly undisclosed ) of Evelyn Waugh 's letters to his late mother , Lady Diana Cooper , the library 's curator of modern literary manuscripts , a Ms Brown , was quoted as follows : I am sure that they did not have a physical affair . |
| 12 | In this article , Julien Stock ( a Senior Director of Sotheby 's London , Old Master Paintings ) , was quoted as follows : |
| 13 | A peace mission in January by the French Minister-Delegate for Foreign Affairs , Alain Vivien had been spurned by the government [ see p. 38711 ] , and as late as Feb. 19 in an interview with the French newspaper Libération Gouled Aptidon was quoted as rejecting out-of-hand any French-brokered negotiated end to the conflict , on the grounds that the FRUD was a " foreign " organization which was violating Djibouti 's sovereignty . |
| 14 | The foreman was quoted as saying that the woman in question had shown ‘ everything she had ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Our island will be as if in a state of war ’ one senior official was quoted as saying yesterday . |
| 16 | Fighting erupted in Beirut yesterday shortly after President Elias Hrawi was quoted as saying that Syrian troops would leave parts of Lebanon as soon as he had overcome the resistance of troops of General Michel Aoun in the Christian enclave . |
| 17 | One on-set photographer was quoted as saying : ‘ It became a standing joke that Kylie could be heard saying : ‘ Charlie 's right ’ . ’ |
| 18 | Mrs Clinton was quoted as saying : ‘ Nobody knows better than I do the pain that can be caused by discussing rumours , even in private conversations , and I did n't mean to be hurtful to anyone . ’ |
| 19 | A picket stopping supplies to a Liverpool hospital was quoted as saying : ‘ If someone has to die then so be it . ’ |
| 20 | So Woody Allen was quoted as saying in 1978 , a watershed year in which he Got Serious , swapped tables and made Interiors , a polished homage to Bergman that was certainly grown-up but was as enjoyable as shingles and carried as many jokes as the average court summons . |
| 21 | The FDA was quoted as saying that the asthma drug Intal , which accounts for about half of Fisons ' pharmaceutical sales , was still on sale despite ‘ violations ’ only because of its medical necessity . |
| 22 | Robert Malpas , chairman of the privatised power company Powergen , was quoted as saying that he would like to ‘ get away ’ with fitting FGD at just one of his power stations . |
| 23 | During the summer of 1985 there was evidence of increasing tension , and a prominent member of the Hornsey Police Federation was quoted as saying that rank and file officers ‘ desperately wanted to go in hard and sort out the criminals ’ . |
| 24 | A ‘ spokesman ’ was quoted as saying : ‘ There are no fights or anything : it 's just people adapting to changes in the group 's status . ’ |
| 25 | Norman Fowler ( then Secretary of State for Employment ) was quoted as saying , ‘ We are challenging the whole concept that retirement ages should get earlier and earlier . |
| 26 | It was not surprising that , on his retirement in January 1936 , he was quoted as saying : ‘ A man can not serve two masters , I am a man without a hobby ’ . |
| 27 | Just before his death in 1966 , Disney was quoted as saying : ‘ I do not believe there are any heights that can not be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true ’ . |
| 28 | Soon after the eruption last year , Brian Toon , of the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffatt Field , California , was quoted as saying , ‘ this is really the first time in modern meteorology that something has happened that has the potential to affect the climate . |
| 29 | ‘ Who can help us without transferring their problems to us ? ’ von Kuenheim was quoted as saying in The Economist earlier this year . |
| 30 | Using language normally seen in missives asking for one 's child to be excused from games , Ms Smith 's mother , Mrs Patsy Smith was quoted as saying , ‘ Mandy ca n't have sex because she 's not well enough . ’ |