Example sentences of "[noun prp] say of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sentencing Fisher Mr Justice Judge said of the rape of the pahrmacist ’ No one who saw her give evidence will forget her visible revulsion as she described what happened . ’ |
| 2 | In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ . |
| 3 | Palace boss Steve Coppell says of the striker : ‘ He can give us the pace Ian Wright used to offer . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Roskha said of the trouble in Kishinyev : ‘ Several thousand people from the Popular Front and other groups broke through cordons of police and climbed on to the tanks and armoured personnel carriers , waving banners and chanting slogans . |
| 5 | As Bob Hope said of the Stealth bomber , ‘ If it is supposed to be invisible to radar , why do n't we just not build it and tell the Russians it 's there ? ’ |
| 6 | Mr Faulks said of the application for the house loan : ‘ What we say he was doing here is , being unable to obtain loans in any other way , he is pretending to be selling his house to this fictitious person in order to get the bank to give him £43,000 on the strength of his house which they would otherwise not have given him . ’ |
| 7 | One could well say of the event horizon what the poet Dante said of the entrance to Hell : " All hope abandon , ye who enter here . " |
| 8 | NALGO branch spokesman Richard Brunner said of the appeal : ‘ It 's not looking particularly optimistic . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We have gone one-third of the way to where we want to be , ’ Mr Jones said of the restructuring which has sold off the Grattan mail-order business for £167½m , cut debts in the Club 24 credit operation , improved trading in the core retail division and strengthened the balance sheet . |
| 10 | After the Glasgow meeting , Mr Wallace said of the Convention 's prospects : ‘ My view is still that when this group tries to examine what is a realistic possibility , realistically we will not be able to embark on any major schemes . ’ |
| 11 | Visits supervisor Jenny Wallace said of the group : ‘ This was the first time we had welcomed a party from the Salvation Army . |
| 12 | Veteran Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston said of The Jungle Book : ‘ Character relationships must be built up slowly through actions , expressions and emotions . |
| 13 | British Gas Eastern spokesman Richard Dymond said of the move : ‘ It will not be 280 people going out of the gates . |
| 14 | At an Oval Office photo session at the start of the six-hour White House visit , Mr Major said of the airdrop plan : ‘ I think as a humanitarian mission , it is very welcome and it will have our support . ’ |
| 15 | Wednesday manager Trevor Francis said of the Steel City clash : ‘ I wish this was the final . |
| 16 | Justice Foster said of the discordance between the evidence of the epidemiological witnesses called by the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations and the Tobacco Institute of Australia , ‘ It was not a disagreement which the learned primary judge or this Court could reasonably resolve . ’ |
| 17 | Wilhelm Pieck said of the Minority Movement : The most striking example of sectarianism in the trade union movement was provided in Great Britain where … the Communists adopted such unfortunate and sectarian tactics that the Minority Movement actually fell to pieces . |
| 18 | Police Chief Superintendent David Baker said of the flare-up : ‘ It was a family day out with a carnival atmosphere right up to the end of the evening . |
| 19 | Mrs Charlton said of the conversation : ‘ The tone of the tape is unnatural for an intimate couple . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Anderson says of the president , ‘ Over the years he made all the key decisions on the economic strategies he finally embraced . |
| 21 | Commenting on the effect of the September 1981 reshuffle in an interview with Jeremy Mayhew , James Prior said of the Cabinet , |
| 22 | In the only passage where he concedes any degree of effectiveness to workers ' combinations , Adam Smith said of the wool combers : " By combining not to take apprentices … [ they ] … reduce the whole of the manufacture into a sort of slavery to themselves , and raise the price of labour much above what is due to the nature of their work . " |