Example sentences of "i said [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
| 2 | ‘ I do hope so , ’ I said with polite enthusiasm . |
| 3 | ‘ And I enjoyed every minute of the trip , ’ I said with genuine enthusiasm . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't … move … the arrow , ’ I said with terrible urgency . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's wonderful , ’ I said with suitable sanctimony . |
| 6 | Philip implicitly dismisses the value of his own reflections on the ugliness of modern London with off-hand self-ironizing comments which imply that he too is a product of the intellectual dissipation he criticizes : ‘ Life , I said with startling originality as I stepped out of the bus in my mackintosh , is like that ’ ( 307 ) . |
| 7 | " All right , " I said with false breeziness as I left . |
| 8 | ‘ They 'll take anyone who is n't blind , ’ I said with dismissive untruth . |
| 9 | ‘ No , thanks , ’ I said with noble restraint . |
| 10 | ‘ Sod off , Toby , ’ I said in friendly fashion . |