Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] said [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Wesnes said that using volunteers with ‘ fake ’ Alzheimers Disease enabled a new drug to be evaluated within three months compared with the three to five years for a full-scale trial on ‘ real ’ patients . |
| 2 | Dr Howells and Dr Unsworth said when asked the inevitable MPs ' question about the price , that for £500 million spent between now and the end of the century we could reduce toxic emissions , by half , at the cost of increasing the price of electricity by 15 per cent . |
| 3 | ‘ There , my dear , ’ Aunt Emily said and glanced at the little drawing by her bed . |
| 4 | ‘ We could do with some loaves and fishes , ’ Mr Hobbs said and looked embarrassed , as if it was shameful to care about other people 's hunger . |
| 5 | Mr Starr said that had been weighed against other needs apparent in the case . |
| 6 | Mr Aikens said that to prove contempt the Attorney-General had to establish that the published information was confidential . |
| 7 | Mr Geddes said that counsel for Lothian and Tayside had advised that a referendum could be held within certain legal parameters . |
| 8 | " Maybe it would look different to you if you thought about it in English , " Mr. Mendez said and watched him closely . |
| 9 | Mr Lamont said that following a detailed consultation exercise , he now proposed to offer these people — which included four million self-employed , the option of self-assessment . |
| 10 | Sachs J said that mens rea was an essential part of this type of manslaughter . |
| 11 | Mr McCausland said that having made a survey of the non-drinking areas implemented by other councils he was convinced that Belfast was being treated ‘ less sympathetically ’ than elsewhere in the province . |
| 12 | Mr Threlfall said that according to the service 's records the response time to the incident had been 24 minutes . |
| 13 | Mr Major said that plans for devolved Scottish , Welsh and regional assemblies , combined with moves to a federal Europe and an end to the first-past-the-post voting system , were ‘ of far greater importance than the general election itself ’ . |
| 14 | Mr MacGregor said that to describe the programme as immoral was absolutely ludicrous . |
| 15 | When the trial started on Monday , Mr Goldring said that following a number of mysterious incidents involving youngsters at the hospital , it became clear there was a criminal at large on Ward 4 , the children 's ward . |
| 16 | Mr McFall said that had to be done because it was vital that the knife carrying culture in Scotland was stamped out . |
| 17 | Mrs McRobert said that Say continued to threaten to take his own life , blaming his wife 's decision to leave him for his predicament . |
| 18 | Mrs Shephard said that helping people out of work to find jobs was her priority but ‘ throwing huge sums of public money at this problem is not an option for us ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ The Yugoslav Army has never fired on the people , ’ Col Budimir Mladenovic said when confronted by an angry Muslim villager who held in his hands the remains of an Army issue mortar shell . |
| 20 | Director of architecture , planning and estates Philip Eyton-Jones said that required an annual maintenance budget of more than £11mfar more than Clwyd has been allocating . |
| 21 | Mrs Thatcher said that pay review bodies were only ‘ given to those who do not go on strike , like the nurses ’ , and that some ‘ militant ’ ambulancemen wanted to withdraw the emergency service across the country to force through their pay claim . |
| 22 | Hun Sen said that dismantling his government and disarming the SOC armed forces would be unacceptable , and that the UN role should be limited to overseeing elections , with UN troops being only lightly armed for self-defence . |
| 23 | Lord Donaldson said that misappreciated the nature of the duty in at least two respects . |
| 24 | Lord Templeman said that sweeping aside the public interest factor without any trial would have ‘ established a ‘ charter for traitors ’ to publish on the most massive scale in England whatever they had managed to publish abroad' . |
| 25 | ‘ But bracing , Myles , bracing , ’ Father Poole said and stepped in . |
| 26 | To this Lord Reid said that to regulate a person 's existing trade may be a greater restraint than prohibiting him from engaging in a new trade . |
| 27 | Announcing the changes in a Commons written answer , Lord James said that planned spending on legal aid would still rise by 40 per cent over the next three years , in spite of the changes , with more people than ever being granted legal aid . |
| 28 | Ms Kennedy said that coupled with the suggestion — left over from a case in 1976 — that woman and boys tend to lie , this initial suggestion of doubt can be an ‘ appalling ’ for the victim , who was already having to relive the ordeal in court . |
| 29 | Bishop Patrick said that attempts to create a fairer and more just world were being blocked by business interests . |
| 30 | Anton Chekhov said that reading a short story ‘ feels rather like swallowing a glass of vodka ’ . |