Example sentences of "[noun prp] say [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , in conversation with Vilnius residents during a walkabout in the city centre , Gorbachev said with reference to Lithuania 's relationship with the Soviet Union : " Nothing will be decided without you . |
| 2 | To consider whether Freud overestimated the importance of sex in human psychology it is necessary to consider exactly what Freud said about sex in human psychology . |
| 3 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 4 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |
| 5 | ‘ I du n no 'ow we 're gon na pay off the bank if there is a strike , ’ Fred said with concern in his voice . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's terribly difficult , I keep having to read it again to try and work it out , ’ Gordon says by telephone from New York , where she is enjoying the acclaim for After the War , last summer 's Frederic Raphael TV series for Granada in which she played the Raphael alter ego 's wife . |
| 7 | On April 3 the UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said with reference to the dispute that " the military option is not being excluded but it is not being planned " . |
| 8 | I missed a little of what Eric said in reply to me , and only caught ; |
| 9 | Just hours after Watson , 28 , began his sentence , his father Ernie said at home in Sunderland : ‘ He deserved all he got . |
| 10 | Allen said in evidence on Monday that the affair with Previn was a mistake , but he said he still loved her . |
| 11 | On the application of the duty on a decision-maker to adopt a fair procedure , Lord Denning M.R. said in Reg. v. Gaming Board for Great Britain , Ex parte Benaim and Khaida [ 1970 ] 2 Q.B . |
| 12 | ‘ I feel the efforts of the US embassy have been very inadequate , ’ his daughter Caroline said by telephone from Panama yesterday . |
| 13 | ‘ It will be a sad day when the camera replaces the umpire , ’ Bucknor said in response to the criticism . |
| 14 | Do you know what Nabokov said about adultery in his lecture on Madame Bovary ? |
| 15 | Refusing both the taxpayer 's applications , Mr Justice Harman said in respect of the first that the 30 day time limit prescribed by s 56(4) , TMA 1970 was mandatory . |
| 16 | Baker said on television on March 17 that until these differences were " straightened out " it would be " difficult to conclude START [ the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty negotiations ] " . |
| 17 | ‘ Bamburgh Castle , ’ Roman said in answer to her look of enquiry . |
| 18 | Museums truly worth visiting are worth standing as New Yorkers say on line for . |
| 19 | When Gandalf says to Frodo of his wound on Weathertop , ‘ your heart was not touched , and only your shoulder was pierced ; and that was because you resisted to the last ’ , he may be making a moral statement ( Frodo was rewarded ) or a practical one ( he dodged , called out , struck back , put off the Ringwraith 's aim ) . |
| 20 | I I wrote to Atkins saying as Minister for the Environment er , Please support the energy conversation bill because it 's dead good . |
| 21 | ‘ Your father did n't warn me quite what a striking young woman you had grown into , ’ the Princesse said in English with a wry glint in her eye . |
| 22 | The language of the Code is taken to constitute the major premise so that Lord Herschell said in Bank of England v Vagliano Brothers [ 1891 ] AC 107 : " [ T ] he law should be ascertained from interpreting the language used instead of , as before , roaming over a vast number of authorities in order to discover what the law was … " ( p145 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Hello , Ga , ’ Flora said with pleasure into the receiver . |
| 24 | What Eliot said in reply to that question has survived in two versions . |
| 25 | In A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 , 373 , Lord Wilberforce said in relation to the High Court : |