Example sentences of "[adj] said [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Department of the Environment report on the condition of local authority housing in 1985 said that in England alone almost £19 billion needed to be spent to restore it to good condition . |
| 2 | A statement issued by Yeltsin on Aug. 26 said that in view of the recent declarations of independence by several republics , the RSFSR " reserves the right to raise the issue of a revision of borders " with all contiguous republics , except the Baltic states . |
| 3 | I froze when they first said that in the town where we lived for his firm job . |
| 4 | Commenting on the Khmer Rouge position at the talks , the Independent of June 27 said that for the first time in three years of diplomacy , the group appeared " unsure of themselves , and nervous of being outmanoeuvred " . |
| 5 | Referring to China 's alleged delivery of 24 T-59 tanks to the guerrillas in the previous two months , the Economist of Oct. 27 said that in fact 12-20 " clapped out " tanks had been delivered at the beginning of the year , and were probably still on the Thai-Cambodian border , as their value was mainly psychological . |
| 6 | In September 1968 the executive sanitary officer in his annual report for 1967 said that over one thousand houses were occupied by more than one family and in several cases seven or eight families occupied what was originally a single dwelling . |