Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Baye somewhat defensively said of ‘ Lies ’ that ‘ AIDS is a subject like any other . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ So nicely said , ’ he grated . |
| 3 | As the judge so rightly said , his were not merely crimes of theft but of violence against elderly people . |
| 4 | Then , as Starmer-Smith so rightly said , ‘ Wales will bounce back ’ . |
| 5 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |
| 6 | ‘ They basically just said that whatever we were doing to keep doing it , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The vacillating vamp , as I so aptly said : do I phone her ? |
| 8 | He 's certainly saying I find a pattern here because he 's using it , as his pattern to understand and I only just said at the beginning what the , makes the Jews Jewish , what gave them their national character and their , their ethnic identity . |
| 9 | We 've heard , so eloquently said by many of my comrades tonight , about the problems right across the sectors affecting and I congratulate each and every one on their contribution tonight . |
| 10 | ‘ Aye , there 's the rub , ’ as William Shakespeare so wisely said , ’ murmured Henry . |
| 11 | Mr. Long also said that Mr. Thurgood had helped calm things down when the fight , which had been caused by another customer , broke out . |
| 12 | ‘ You always look so well , ’ said Kitty , as she so often said . |
| 13 | And so then said you 're telling porkies as a joke or something and Jimmy went what you bloody talking about |
| 14 | Easily enough said with hindsight , but then Eric William was not the kind of man who hid his talents behind a bushel , for as Ivar Oxaal noticed , ‘ Eric Williams was always fundamentally , legally , morally and intellectually right ’ while his opponents were ‘ usually incompetent , malicious , and weak-willed creatures ’ who ‘ are reduced to an incoherent blubbering as the omnipotent young black colonial reduces their arguments to ashes . ’ |
| 15 | But they could of easily just said , well , come in Monday , Tuesday , off Wednesday , and Thursday and Friday instead of having all them days off . |
| 16 | had to say , he just just said yes , yes , all afternoon . |
| 17 | You just fucking said it . |
| 18 | He had a shaving kit like that , and he had his old , the old after shave lotion and that , and he will , well , picked us , we just fucking said I , I know what will do the trick a bit of fucking gone |
| 19 | Why had she felt so — so vulnerable , so edgy with him , that , when Cara was so desperate for her to do that interview , she had by her uppity manner just about said goodbye to all chance of that . |
| 20 | but , then the next morning of course when Wendy got home she 'd been down my nephew 's looking after the kids for them and erm , and said we 've come to arrest you , and no , oh Rachael said oh mum there 's a police car pulled up outside , so she said , oh my god do n't tell me they 're wrong and it is Tracey , cos Tracey 's left home , she 's gone to live with her friend and erm , anyway , when Wendy got to the stairs she could n't go in , she could n't go any further and she said erm , when , when the policeman said Mrs I 've come to arrest you , she just about said Christ she said what have I done ? |
| 21 | But we tell him , long , long time and he just well said well yeah , yeah ! |
| 22 | of what sixth form courses entails , now , erm , three or four of us thought it might be worth our while , or your while if you just briefly said what I 'm going to say now , that erm , the , the |
| 23 | There have been many volumes written on the Cotswold wool trade but comparatively little ever said about the silk industry . |
| 24 | But the director always just said , sorry . |
| 25 | I think we 're actually getting in each other 's way for the right reasons rather than the wrong reasons , like just said and it 's not a question of somebody else trampling on others er cos I 've heard this sporadically for some time . |
| 26 | Superintendent Pumfrey looked around the study , and once more said , ‘ By gum ! ’ |
| 27 | A squire once angrily said to him : ‘ If I had a son who was an idiot by Jove I 'd make him a parson ’ . |
| 28 | We better go home then said Bill but we shall come back here again . |
| 29 | Schellenberg examined the signal quickly then said , |
| 30 | These are also utterances in which saying is doing , and they too are only successful if certain felicity conditions are fulfilled , but , unlike declarations , their related verbs ( vow , arrest , declare , etc. ) are not always actually said . |