Example sentences of "said at the " in BNC.

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1 No more excuses , I said at the start .
2 ‘ There 's altogether too much said at the Black Lion , ’ Mrs Yardley said darkly .
3 Phyllis Bowman said at the weekend that the best the society could hope for would be reducing the time limit to 18 weeks .
4 LABOUR 'S policy review was a symbol of the party renewing itself and becoming again a force for change , Tom Sawyer , deputy general secretary of Nupe , the public sector workers ' union , said at the start of four days of debate on the review reports .
5 Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ What I said after the meeting was exactly what I said at the meeting and exactly the same as I have been saying since the White Paper was published .
6 This was not an opinion , simply the Catholic moral teaching , he said at the funeral of Henry Babbington , shot dead on Wednesday by IRA men who mistook him for a loyalist terrorist .
7 ‘ I know there will be those who are unhappy … but I am also convinced that millions of Argentines are applauding this measure , ’ he said at the weekend .
8 But as one parent said at the last gathering : ‘ Why do we all have to be so matey ? ’
9 ‘ First , our philosophy , ’ Mr Patten said at the start of his speech yesterday .
10 Mr Arias said at the weekend that the ‘ mimimum for success ’ was an agreement for an end to military operations by both sides in El Salvador .
11 Mr Arias said at the weekend that the ‘ mimimum for success ’ was an agreement for an end to military operations by both sides in El Salvador .
12 ‘ This office has been so discredited that I think it has to be disbanded , ’ the party 's new reformist leader , Dr Gregor Gysi , said at the weekend .
13 As someone said at the time , ‘ I could believe him guilty of grievous bodily harm , but not grievous bodily charm . ’
14 Klaus Maurice , the secretary-general of the German quasi-governmental agency that negotiated the deal , said at the time : ‘ If we had pursued the lawsuit in Dallas , the legal fees would have greatly exceeded the amount we agreed to pay . ’
15 Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate .
16 I said at the beginning , when I talked about the woman at the pool , that ‘ the essence of her charm , independent of time revealed itself for a second in that gesture and dazzled me . ’
17 ‘ Any soldier who has ever been in a war , ’ he said at the hearings , ‘ truly hopes he will never see one again . ’
18 ‘ These reports are a load of rubbish , ’ she said at the time .
19 Dannii said at the time : ‘ We do n't see a lot of her because our schedules clash really badly .
20 I said at the beginning of the book that 50 per cent was documented historical fact .
21 He said at the time , ‘ A dancer 's time is short .
22 They said at the time it was a crib , and La Sylphide is indeed markedly different from any other Bournonville ballet .
23 ‘ PR is no principle , ’ he said at the start of the election campaign .
24 A WOMAN student was strangled and dumped in a field by her mentally ill musician boyfriend who thought she was the devil , Mr Victor Temple , prosecuting , said at the Old Bailey yesterday .
25 ‘ Either they can back the Union or they can take the first , irrevocable step towards separation , ’ he said at the party 's morning press briefing .
26 The army said at the weekend that troops had reacted to ‘ enemy provocations ’ and intervened to protect local citizens .
27 ‘ Grant maintained schools can no longer be seen as a politically reversible gimmick , ’ he said at the union 's conference in Birmingham .
28 Whatever the newspapers said at the time , we knew where every penny of revenue was coming from and every penny of expenditure was going .
29 As Peter Vogtlander , chemicals coordinator for the Royal Dutch/Shell group , said at the ECMRA meeting in September , ‘ to introduce , say a carbon tax while still maintaining subsidies on some fuels , such as coal , is plainly inconsistent ’ .
30 ‘ The most disturbing feature of the underground repository is not simply that an accident might occur , ’ he said at the time , ‘ but that if it did , we might never know until its consequences reached the surface — maybe decades later . ’
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