Example sentences of "said [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers said 12-year-old Tommy Woods 's new wedge-style cut was against the school rules . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher said economic sanctions did have the effect of depressing an economy and depriving people of jobs , but rarely if ever had the desired political effect . |
| 3 | The North Road Railway Museum could be a possible area for expansion , said economic development officer , Alan Wallis . |
| 4 | The inquiry said economic pressures for more seating had impeded escape from the aircraft , and among its recommendations was to change the materials used in the construction of seats — 48 of the 55 dead were killed by smoke and toxic gases . |
| 5 | Mr Izetbegovic said Serbian-based paramilitaries who overran the eastern town of Zvornik on Thursday were threatening to kill 3,000 Muslims sheltering in a fortress . |
| 6 | ‘ In considering this issue we started from the premise that pension schemes were created with the intention of providing working people with a secure and adequate income after retirement ’ , said Working Party Chairman Brian Murphy . |
| 7 | You said fifty pounds |
| 8 | you said fifty P for that bag and I 'll give you a quid |
| 9 | your the one who 's loosing out on fifty P , you said fifty P , I 'll give you a quid and I want my change back , god |
| 10 | The Treasury said inflationary expectations had improved and that downward pressure on inflation continued . |
| 11 | when we said that goodbye . |
| 12 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 13 | In a report published on Feb. 5 the human rights organization Amnesty International said that rape by members of the armed forces and police of women and of girls as young as 14 was a " global occurrence " . |
| 14 | I said that phone bill 's still in there waiting to be paid . |
| 15 | come up mum 's with the , and he snatched my handbag and he took the keys , he said that copper has got no rights to tell him to hand over them keys to me , I said what and he snatched them out of my handbag and I 've got no rights to my own house keys and I said what rights have I got to do , down his flat and collect half of my stuff back then ? |
| 16 | Radio reports said that Alliance forces used chemical and bacteriological weapons in the Kutaisi area . |
| 17 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |
| 18 | Tina immediately burst into noisy tears and ran off wailing ‘ Mom — she said that word to me again ! ’ |
| 19 | There was a lull in the conversation and then somebody said that word ‘ Gioella ’ again . |
| 20 | His own name , though , as he said that word , tolled like a warning bell somewhere behind the new screen of holiness . |
| 21 | I do n't know , maybe they erm a , they 'll listen to the tapes and they probably sample some of the words into a computer to build up a database of words that probably like you said , oh he 's getting a lot of jip from his boss , you know , is probably not in the dictionary but if a lot of people said that word then they would . |
| 22 | I believe in taking action on fact and not fantasy , but I think it was Lord Zuckerman who was the scientific advisor to the government , who said that government has never taken preventive measures that would prove to be unjustified , and if you always wait to the last moment before being convinced to do anything , that 's often a moment too late . |
| 23 | In it he said that man 's control over the world — steam , explosives , atoms and space — has outrun his power over himself to use that command wisely . |
| 24 | Well said that man . |
| 25 | For Philip said that board , thick papers , " something , should be put under the tank to raise it , because of some tricky protruding pipes , and Jasper , seeing the stacks of newspaper that had come down from the attic , swiftly gathered them up and built them , while he knelt there beside it , into an eighteen-inch-high platform . |
| 26 | well one of the girls said to me who sort of tagged on to us , she was on her own , er she said er what was the highlight of the holiday and she said that trip down the Seine |
| 27 | They said that ehm , if you get it in less than six . |
| 28 | and I said to Andrea , I says Andrea those two are two of the tills I 'd checked yesterday in the middle of the day and they were spot on I said that money went yesterday evening ! |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't mean the things I said that day , my lovely witch . |
| 30 | Darwin erm repeatedly said that evolution was not a perfecting mechanism . |