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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I understood what my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary said about economic migration and refugees under the 1951 convention . |
| 4 | Which , of course , they once said about pop music . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Me dad told us all about you , and what you said about Big Norm , Sniffer , Uncle Billy , an' that back in t' seventies . |
| 7 | Phil Thornally : As Fred Trueman said of Indoor League , ‘ I 'll sithee ’ . |
| 8 | Again , in Wright v British Railways Board [ 1983 ] 2 AC 733 Lord Diplock said of non-pecuniary loss : |
| 9 | said of undue influence : |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Tertullian said of Christian belief that it was true because it was impossible . |
| 12 | This distinction has importance not least because it is often ( mistakenly ) said of local authority accounts that they are essentially cash accounts . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Matilda looked right back into the flashing eyes of this infuriated female giant and said with total calmness , ‘ I have not moved away from my desk , Miss Trunchbull , since the lesson began . |
| 15 | " I did n't know you wanted me , " she said with total sincerity . |
| 16 | ‘ I really do n't know where you got the idea that I 've been avoiding you , ’ she said with laudable calm . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm afraid , ’ she said with admirable honesty , ‘ I missed it . |
| 18 | ‘ Good , ’ he said with forced cheerfulness , and sat back in an attempt to enjoy the entertainment . |
| 19 | ‘ Excuse me , Benedict , ’ she said with forced calm . |
| 20 | ‘ My father wanted to check out a few interesting investments abroad , and I fancied a change of scene , ’ she said with forced nonchalance . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's no need to be so independent , ’ he said with mild reproof . |
| 22 | ‘ Thompson 's law stands here , sir , and I 'll bid thee good day , ’ he said with hard-won civility . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps he is , ’ she said with assumed indifference . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose , ’ Robbie said with assumed casualness , ‘ you have n't heard anything from Mr Marshall ? ’ |
| 25 | Lissa said with crushing force , ‘ Whether or not she is your sister gives you no right to make slanderous , evil accusations . |
| 26 | McQuaid always said they set out to stop you , ’ Sheila said with borrowed vehemence . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think I can handle any more shocks , ’ she said with taut bitterness . |
| 28 | ‘ I assure you , ’ he said with weary cynicism , ‘ I did n't see anything I had n't already seen . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , yes , yes , ’ Scott-Scobie said with cheery impatience . |
| 30 | That can not be true , ’ she said with assured authority . |