Example sentences of "said [adj] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said this in his firm business voice , not his usually listless home voice , and she accepted his direction as readily as one of his mechanics would have done . |
| 2 | Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated . |
| 3 | Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing . |
| 4 | He said one of their main hopes was to tighten up the law on fire precautions in flats . |
| 5 | He said one of his main concerns was the problem of persistent offenders . |
| 6 | ‘ That is not a normal fog , ’ said one of my young uncles . |
| 7 | His lawyer Lars Mattsson said most of his multi-million pound fortune had been spent repaying creditors after his clothing company crashed . |