Example sentences of "said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ft was said as a joke , and Dana and I laughed , but it left me frightened . |
| 2 | ‘ Aah 've said as 'ow oor George 's wife 's time 's nearly 'ere and Aah may be needed at t'confinement . |
| 3 | The fact that one can always see what one has said as a string of words , which might be interpreted in this way or that , does not entail that whenever one says something there is an accompanying interpretation going through one 's head . |
| 4 | But the words were not said as if from the mind of a child but from that of an adult who had experienced many things . |
| 5 | In some variants of reported speech where the speaker is only implicitly identified , the words may be not so much a straight transformation of what was said as a summary or paraphrase of it . |
| 6 | It was said as a joke , but if the man had seen the evil look on Fagin 's face , he might have thought the warning was a necessary one . |
| 7 | ‘ If |
| 8 | ‘ If |
| 9 | Can I interpret what you 've just said as erm representing in effect an aim on the part of the County Council to secure in Harrogate the nineteen ninety one area of employment land plus ninety hectares in two thousand and six ? |
| 10 | Thus the sentence ‘ The price is going up ’ can be said as a statement like this : The price is going up ( the tonic stress could equally well be on ‘ up ’ ) . |
| 11 | It is also possible to feel , and to be told in London , that there was more to be said about the mad love than he allowed himself , or was in a position , to come up with . |
| 12 | This kind of thing has been said about Hamlet , to whom , as I say , Kelman alludes , and more than alludes . |
| 13 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 14 | If this were not so , and all statements simply joined names that referred to individuals , nothing would be said about those individuals . |
| 15 | But Fodor goes on to argue that much of what can be said about reflexes can also be said about processes which we would normally regard as ‘ cognitive ’ rather than ‘ neurological ’ or ‘ behavioural ’ : the parsing of heard sentences , for example . |
| 16 | But Fodor goes on to argue that much of what can be said about reflexes can also be said about processes which we would normally regard as ‘ cognitive ’ rather than ‘ neurological ’ or ‘ behavioural ’ : the parsing of heard sentences , for example . |
| 17 | Much the same can be said about sentence parsing . |
| 18 | ( There is a lot to be said about the role of other persons too , but I am leaving that out for the time being . ) |
| 19 | Moreover , a closer look at individual patients provides support for what was said about the heterogeneity of groups at the start of this section . |
| 20 | The same can be said about Constant Lambert 's arrangement of Auber 's music for Ashton 's Les Rendezvous and Meyerbeer 's for Ashton 's Les Patineurs . |
| 21 | What Razumikhm had just said about Porfiry also disturbed him . |
| 22 | The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France . |
| 23 | His aim is simple : to write a series of commentaries on the novels of Jane Austen which would say everything that could be said about them , from every conceivable angle : |
| 24 | The other kind would be academics who are committed to a tough professionalism on the American model , who believe that knowledge advances and becomes obsolete , that theory is essential , and that nothing of interest can be said about literature outside an institutional framework . |
| 25 | Very little has been said about the boom in modern prints . |
| 26 | The same was said about Bassett 's Wimbledon , of course , and for a promoted team to take an unbeaten record and three-point lead into the season 's eighth week is an achievement in itself . |
| 27 | Whatever else may be said about the Cathedral 's architecture and its glass and its sculpture , no one would dispute the success of Ralph Beyer 's contributions , known as The Tablets of the Word and cut in Hollington stone on a grand scale . |
| 28 | ‘ A lot has been said about how weak Welsh rugby is , ’ the coach Alex Wyllie said . |
| 29 | When Fussell tells us that the war was ‘ so devoid of ideological content that little could be said about its positive purposes that made political or intellectual sense ’ , he shows that he has become the prisoner of his own limited sources , and also of an imagination limited by distaste for his subject . |
| 30 | He remains synonymous with Manchester United which is more than will ever be said about the principal figures in that disturbing saga of boardroom intrigue which has been occupying our attention this season . |