Example sentences of "said [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , the plans said no-one with a disposable income of more than £42 per week would get advice and assistance . |
| 2 | Mr Noyes will claim the MoD said nothing about the alleged landing because it wanted to save any embarrassment . |
| 3 | Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin . |
| 4 | Police were searching for the missing bicycle , but the announcer said nothing about the missing hair . |
| 5 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 6 | Stephen Leach , 35 , of no fixed abode , said nothing during the brief hearing before Liverpool magistrates . |
| 7 | He said nothing of the Soviet plan . |
| 8 | ‘ Too good for 'em , torture 'em first , ’ said someone with an unhealthy imagination . |
| 9 | to have her hair done , she brings her boy friend with her and , another neighbour always drops in to have a chat with his wife on a Friday evening , she stops about an hour , then his son brings his girl friend , so he said its like a mad house |
| 10 | I said somebody like a middle-aged woman would be best who 's got grown up children at work |
| 11 | Celia said something about a bone-marrow transplant , but that was weeks ago . |
| 12 | Back at the office you said something about a secret project . |
| 13 | ‘ I had this anonymous tip-off about a man answering your description , the caller said something about a missing member of the aristocracy , so I 've been keeping an eye on things . ’ |
| 14 | I said something about the political climate in the Argentine having changed since the Falklands War . |
| 15 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |
| 16 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 17 | He said something about an insolent pup . ’ |
| 18 | Her mother said something in a low voice , which she did n't catch . |
| 19 | The magician turned , stared at the cat and said something in a strange language . |
| 20 | — The hon. Member for Renfrew , West and Inverclyde said something from a sedentary position which I did not catch . |
| 21 | He said anyone in the infected zone was severely restricted on the movement of pigs regardless of whether their animals had the disease . |
| 22 | He said anyone in the infected zone was severely restricted on the movement of pigs regardless of whether their animals had the disease . |
| 23 | He said it with a faint smile . |
| 24 | She said it with a sly smile ; he had n't mentioned any of his own stay-behind training . |
| 25 | He said it with a heavy emphasis which brought them all close to tears but the mood was soon scattered by all the joyful preparations Rose had planned . |
| 26 | Once he said it to the answering service . |
| 27 | ‘ We can but of course it wo n't be as easy for us to get away once Maggie is gone , ’ she said it in a pleasant way that sometimes humoured him and sometimes could put his teeth on edge . |
| 28 | The next time she said , ‘ Give me some chicken , ’ she said it in the vacant lot behind the Commercial Hotel , and it was a different kind of chicken altogether . |
| 29 | ‘ I said it like a final-year architecture student , did n't I ? ’ |
| 30 | They none of them said anything for a long time . |