Example sentences of "said in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're from the south , ’ he said in the cracking silence . |
| 2 | said in the Divisional Court : |
| 3 | What we said in the introductory session is a lot of this is to do with skills . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He said in the small room with the bed . |
| 6 | I said in the preceding section that the market process is essentially entrepreneurial . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ he said in the new year , a couple of days after term had started , ‘ I 've certainly been and gone and upset Nerina , of all people . |
| 8 | Why is there nothing said in the New Testament about the Holy Spirit disclosing himself in other faiths , in the struggles of men to find God , and in the ethical endeavours of decent people ? |
| 9 | It 's supposed to sound powerfully effective and menacing , as you said in the live review , like the theme tune to a serial killer . ’ |
| 10 | Erm and and you said in the preliminary interview , the fact that there was some people who actually who lived in the flats who said quite am said quite clearly , this is not the time |
| 11 | The chairman of the Northern Development Company — Sir Ron Dearing — said in The Northern Echo on 17 September : ’ I am not saying the recession has n't hurt . |
| 12 | Eric Hammond of the Electrical , Electronic , Telecommunication and Plumbing Union said in The Daily Telegraph : ’ It is so fundamentally wrong that it will increasingly threaten Labour 's prospects of a national victory . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , help , ’ she said in the lamplit passage . |
| 14 | Mr Justice Hoffman said in the High Court that he had decided to suspend judgment until he knew how soon the House of Lords was likely to hear an appeal against an order forcing Mr William Goodwin , aged 23 , who works on the Engineer magazine , to reveal confidential information . |
| 15 | Mr Justice Laws , said in the High Court if she had known there was a risk of pregnancy she would never have had sex with her lover . |
| 16 | Stoddart , still beaming despite the conflicting emotions , said in the post-race euphoria : ‘ I 'm absolutely thrilled he won . |
| 17 | If there were nothing more to it than this , I would only be repeating what I said in the previous chapter about the persistence of facies . |
| 18 | ‘ Let the mud stick where it belongs , ’ Peter Skolar , leader of the Conservative group on Labour-controlled Camden Council , said in the local government debate . |
| 19 | As he said in The Favourite Game : ‘ Seven to 11 is a huge chunk of life , full of dulling and forgetting , ’ though perhaps some of the ‘ forgetting ’ was deliberate . |
| 20 | Spokesman Tim Roberts said in the past decade doorstep sales had declined , mainly due to supermarkets . |