Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Godard has revealingly said that cinema is dependent on capitalism in two senses : first in the making of the film and second that ‘ in film the money comes back in the image ’ ( MacCabe 1980 , p. 27 ) . |
| 2 | Sinead has since said of her time at Grianan : ‘ I have never , and probably never will again , experienced such panic and terror and agony over anything . ’ |
| 3 | Mia has since said she found true happiness with Allen . |
| 4 | Gestetner made pre-tax profits of £27.2m last year on sales of £900.3m , but the company has since said that trading in Europe has deteriorated and that it sees only a small profit for the half to end-April.Inchcape is buying the shares from Bermudan-registered Chiltern Capital Ltd , quoted in Australia . |
| 5 | ‘ Thank Heavens for William , ’ she has since said as it meant she could now quite properly forsake the pills she was proffered by arguing that she did not want to risk physical or mental deformity in the baby she was carrying . |
| 6 | By giving it over to Bull , IBM has effectively said goodbye to the French market for the RS/6000 . |
| 7 | But I am sure that what determined her to write to me was this paragraph : ‘ The author we most admire has rightly said that people do not know about families ; but Stephen and I know . |
| 8 | My honourable friend the member for has rightly said that only thirty one percent of the people bother to vote and so why be bothering with new things at all . |
| 9 | Mr Gibbon has rightly said that we do n't really know what is asked . |
| 10 | Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series ) |
| 11 | Webb has constantly said he is happy to carry on at Old Trafford and fight for his place . |
| 12 | Er do n't forget the Crawley strikers , the bucket collection will be taken at the door as you go out every pound is worth two as the General Secretary has generously said . |
| 13 | ‘ The pilot has just said we 're diverting to Teeside because of the fog at Newcastle — we 're taxiing out now , ’ she said . |
| 14 | If it is obvious to both of them that what the speaker has just said is false , or so obvious as to need no comment at all , the hearer will look for implications , that is to say what is implied other than what is expressed . |
| 15 | The group can be asked to respond to what one individual has just said ; or it can focus discussion on one individual at a time ; or the counsellor can ensure that the group discusses general or shared problems , or that it links and compares different problems faced by individuals within the group . |
| 16 | ‘ The captain has just said it will be six hours and forty-five minutes , ’ said the Thing . |
| 17 | ‘ One of the humans has just said , ‘ It must have been a mouse or something , ’ and the other one said , ‘ You show me a mouse wearing clothes and I 'll admit it was a mouse . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ One of the humans has just said , ‘ I looked round and there it was , staring out of the window . ’ ‘ |
| 19 | ‘ But by the sound of what she has just said her mother was n't cut out for work , not the kind you 'll find in this quarter , except her last job . |
| 20 | Admiral Hawkins , as the General has just said , is in a position of having to cope with almost impossible circumstances which , as you are in a position to know better than most , involves making almost impossible decisions . |
| 21 | The speaker must monitor what it is that he has just said , and determine whether it matches his intentions , while he is uttering his current phrase and monitoring that , and simultaneously planning his next utterance and fitting that into the overall pattern of what he wants to say and monitoring , moreover , not only his own performance but its reception by his hearer . |
| 22 | After another brief pause , the speaker continues , using and to indicate that what she is going to say is connected to what she has just said . |
| 23 | Yeah but I agree totally with what , and the other lady has just said , but the other thing is is the amount of money that is spent when , you know , someone royal is coming for a visit because all of a sudden , you know , you have people in this country who are living in absolute poverty and yet because the royal sort of erm limousine is going past erm , for a few seconds where they stay all of a sudden the front of the house is painted ! |
| 24 | Would Louise and Fatty agree with what Ant has just said ? |
| 25 | After Sullivan left , he talk to Iranians who had come to the palace to see him , He said to the in wonderment , " Do you know what Sullivan has just said to me ? |
| 26 | That 's what Mike has just said . |
| 27 | It is even possible to conceive of holding your own in a conversation in which all you do is repeat aspects of what the other person has just said . |
| 28 | Does the Minister understand that , despite what he has just said , there is still considerable apprehension that the Government will use the existence of the foundation as an excuse for not funding sport properly ? |
| 29 | The right hon. Gentleman sounds from what he has just said as though he is a separatist . |
| 30 | May I endorse most vigorously what my hon. Friend has just said about the benefits of NHS trusts operating within the health service . |