Example sentences of "said or [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To trigger section 76(2) ( b ) , however , it must be the case that there something was ‘ said or done ’ which was likely to render a confession unreliable , and it has been held that this means something said or done to D , as distinct from some words or conduct of D himself ( Goldenberg ( 1988 ) 88 Cr.App.R. 285 ) . |
| 2 | The Homicide Act 1957 deprived judges of their power to give authoritative rulings on the sufficiency of provocation , and the question must now be left to the jury , which should apply the test of the ‘ reasonable man ’ to everything said or done before the killing which might amount to provocation . |
| 3 | The Homicide Act requires evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control : this is wide enough to include things said or done by persons other than the deceased , and acts done against persons other than D ( e.g. where D is provoked to kill someone who has just committed a sexual offence upon D 's son , daughter , wife , etc . ) . |
| 4 | The result was a record based on events rather than on reason : things people said or did on particular historical occasions and in particular circumstances . |
| 5 | Children are not unfamiliar with situations in which they tell , or are told , what someone else said or thought ; or in which they tell what they themselves said or thought at some point in the past or think at the time of speaking . |