Example sentences of "said [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina disliked her nasal drawl , and said for the final time , ‘ Well , nice to have met you both . |
| 2 | No you said for the new office . |
| 3 | ‘ Letty , ’ she said as the young girl bobbed in the doorway , ‘ ask Mrs Beynon to come in please . ’ |
| 4 | I rather suspect that the , I even said about the strong colour of the net , I suspect , that when |
| 5 | There 's been very little said about the actual content of the Childrens Act and I think it actually gets all Party 's support , which is , which is excellent . |
| 6 | For example , each side said about the other side : |
| 7 | Institute of Directors chief Peter Morgan said after the recent turmoil it would be ‘ folly ’ to commit Europe to closer monetary and political union . |
| 8 | As McFarlane so aptly and untruthfully said of the Saudi contribution , ‘ the concrete character of that is beyond my ken . ’ |
| 9 | Hankin said of the young midfielder , who can also play in defence : ‘ It is a big opportunity for the lad in front of a crowd of 13,000 or 14,000 . |
| 10 | Mr Jan Sekera , director of Prague 's Stredoceska Galerie , one of the city 's leading contemporary galleries , said of the new tax law , ‘ I 'm afraid that there will be no great movement as the relief is limited to only two per cent . |
| 11 | James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " . |
| 12 | ‘ I think she is going to be a real danger this year , ’ she said of the talented Russian . |
| 13 | Suter chairman David Abell said of the Chemoxy operation : ‘ The skills of its management and flexibility in adapting to difficult market circumstances have enabled it to seize opportunities . ’ |
| 14 | He said of the Nicaraguan literacy campaign : ‘ literacy only has meaning in a society undergoing revolutionary change ’ . |
| 15 | They said of The Old School House : ‘ The food is refreshingly simple in concept , but is cooked with originality and flair . ’ |
| 16 | Johnson said of the royal burgh of Nairn , ‘ If once it flourished , [ it ] is now in a state of miserable decay . ’ |
| 17 | He said of the American stylist : ‘ I 'm not interested in him . |
| 18 | Dorothy Sayers , discussing the literary tastes of one of her characters , the Russian exile Paul Alexis , said of the Ruritanian type of story that ‘ the greater European powers of the League of Nations had nothing to do with the matter ’ : |
| 19 | Conrad said of The Secret Agent , another book about revolutionaries , cranks , crooks , somnambulists , peripherals and phantasmagoricals , that it was written ‘ in scorn as well as in pity ’ , and the same could be said of Guerrillas . |
| 20 | Yeah , like I said with the actual water heater there , it 's been , there 's been water heaters in caravans like that for years ! |
| 21 | ‘ I ai n't nobody 's master , ’ she said with the slight thrust of her jaw which always amused and moved him . |
| 22 | ‘ Yeah , ’ the night manager said with the dry kind of irony usually reserved for flying pigs and hell freezing over . |
| 23 | She hesitated , then said with the utmost sweetness , ‘ Do you mind if I make a suggestion ? |
| 24 | ‘ I was n't sure what you 'd want to do , ’ Rose said with the utmost caution , ‘ and I brought a flask of tea and sandwiches just in case . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ They spotted me , ’ Brian Kellerman said into the two-way radio . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're from the south , ’ he said in the cracking silence . |
| 27 | said in the Divisional Court : |
| 28 | What we said in the introductory session is a lot of this is to do with skills . |
| 29 | However , as my right hon. Friend the Minister of State for the Armed Forces said in the recent defence debate , under our restructuring proposals , the proportion of Scottish units in the Army overall will increase rather than decrease . |
| 30 | He said in the small room with the bed . |