Example sentences of "[adv] said [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easily enough said with hindsight , but then Eric William was not the kind of man who hid his talents behind a bushel , for as Ivar Oxaal noticed , ‘ Eric Williams was always fundamentally , legally , morally and intellectually right ’ while his opponents were ‘ usually incompetent , malicious , and weak-willed creatures ’ who ‘ are reduced to an incoherent blubbering as the omnipotent young black colonial reduces their arguments to ashes . ’ |
| 2 | Rufus had forgotten how often he castigated the press for inaccuracy , how he constantly said to Marigold that you could n't believe a word you read . |
| 3 | yeah , yeah , I did n't know what they were like at seventy two it just said on window on one of them shops on Baldwin Lane |
| 4 | Mill says exactly what I just said in response of him that is if the people are prepared to accept these why what 's to stop them consulting and asking for advice about how they should cast their vote and so Mill later on gives a response to his own suggestion about plural voting in effect without realizing that what he 's done . |
| 5 | So I just said in passing , I said Well your husband 's allowed up to two hours , he thinks it 's only gon na t Ooh she 's says it wo n't take that , no . |
| 6 | ( 'Load of nonsense , ’ he always said about television ; nonetheless , he liked to have it on . ) |
| 7 | I do n't know what the programmers were on when they made up this game , but as Boy 's Own once said about liquid E , if it comes in pints , I 'll have two ! |
| 8 | GOALKEEPERS , Brian Clough once said in praise of Peter Shilton , can be the difference between champions and also-rans . |
| 9 | These loopholes remain despite the concern of some judges such as Mr Justice Boreham , who once said in judgment ‘ I know a little about life and even if [ the accused ] had had intercourse with the girl before , he does not have the prescriptive right to it thereafter . |
| 10 | Later they went to a jazz club in the King 's Road — Uncle Ted had never seen black walls before — where Eva slyly said to Dad , ‘ I think it 's about time we moved to London , do n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | He also said in evidence that the quote , parental contribution has been of fundamental importance , unquote . |
| 12 | As we also said in chapter 3 , there are instances when efficiency measures are either not practicable or not possible . |
| 13 | When I was appreached I immediately said of course . |
| 14 | Nothing is here said of lust , treachery and blood-guilt . |
| 15 | Seated at his desk , he opened a file , then said in English , ‘ There is a figure I need which I do not have . |
| 16 | The second complaint made by the local authority is that the justices specifically said by paragraph ( 1 ) of their contact order that there should be no contact between T. and her father until after the local authority review in six months ' time . |