Example sentences of "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 | He said for any project |
| 3 | His solicitor said for some reason he 'd been involved since last December in a campaign of total destruction of both himself and other people , but now there was some hope for the future . |
| 4 | The word ‘ garage ’ , for instance , used to sound more like ‘ g'rahge ’ , almost said as one syllable . |
| 5 | Michael 's 61-year-old widowed mother , Iris , said as another daughter , Heather , comforted her : ‘ I 'm afraid I might never see him again . ’ |
| 6 | The second point is is to echo the er the words that Matt just said about that lady who was converted . |
| 7 | T : Yeah , but that 's what you said about that REM pile of crap . |
| 8 | The things they said about each other were not much better . ’ |
| 9 | The reason I shall vote against the motion and for the amendment could n't have been put more succinctly than it was by Mr , I think Mr made the most pertinent remark that has been made in the debate today , when in opposition to what Mr said about individual freedom he said this is a matter of personal conscience . |
| 10 | I understood what my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary said about economic migration and refugees under the 1951 convention . |
| 11 | ‘ Remember what I said about this bed ? |
| 12 | I have listened with concern to what the hon. Gentleman said about this matter . |
| 13 | Let me tell the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) that I heard what he said about this matter on Thursday , and I agree with him . |
| 14 | Which , of course , they once said about pop music . |
| 15 | Freud was a Hobbesian thinker , erm , in the sense that the id , certainly was egoistic , anti-social and everything that Thomas Hobbes said about human nature , er , could apply to the id , that 's perfectly true , and most people see this , and it 's er it , it 's a commonplace , particularly in the social science writing on Freud . |
| 16 | That 's what he said about last week . |
| 17 | Me dad told us all about you , and what you said about Big Norm , Sniffer , Uncle Billy , an' that back in t' seventies . |
| 18 | A health board spokesman said during that period the doctor worked under supervision and was not involved in any ‘ invasive practices ’ . |
| 19 | Phil Thornally : As Fred Trueman said of Indoor League , ‘ I 'll sithee ’ . |
| 20 | Again , in Wright v British Railways Board [ 1983 ] 2 AC 733 Lord Diplock said of non-pecuniary loss : |
| 21 | For example the development officer said of one client : |
| 22 | said of undue influence : |
| 23 | Winston Churchill said of atomic energy in 1939 , ‘ It might be as good as present day explosives , but it is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous . ’ |
| 24 | Warner v. Browne , 8 East 165 said of that case , 50 L.J.Q.B. 121 , 124 : |
| 25 | Tertullian said of Christian belief that it was true because it was impossible . |
| 26 | This distinction has importance not least because it is often ( mistakenly ) said of local authority accounts that they are essentially cash accounts . |
| 27 | Both have been chronicled in this book , and perhaps we can say now of Eliot what he once said of another poet , " We also understand the poetry better when we know more about the man . " |
| 28 | David Shields , marketing manager of the American-controlled National Magazines , publishers of Cosmopolitan , Good Housekeeping , Country Living , She , and Harpers & Queen , said of retail display allowances : ‘ It is not something we would like to encourage here . ’ |
| 29 | He once said of this discovery : |
| 30 | In Hedley Byrne & Co. v. Heller & Partners ( below , p. 338 ) Lord Devlin said of this case : ‘ … |