Example sentences of "[noun] say [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His loyal and seemingly very level-headed wife Nesta says of the second sex scandal he has been involved in during their marriage : |
| 2 | Wisden had some strong words to say about the fourth game , back in Trinidad : ‘ England put up a performance which exposed to the crowd of 21,000 what depths of incompetence they had reached … after two days off following the Test defeat , the first practice was made optional — and Gower himself was one of the six who failed to attend . ’ |
| 3 | As Sir John Harrington said in the sixteenth century : |
| 4 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
| 5 | But as one parent said at the last gathering : ‘ Why do we all have to be so matey ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's only for a time , ’ Fred said on the last night of the tour . |
| 7 | ‘ We are ready for any onslaught that the white authorities might try to launch against us , ’ Mr Rockman said after the first meeting in his home on Monday of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union . |
| 8 | ‘ Good boy , ’ the Italian said for the last time , thickly , breathless . |
| 9 | Before we come on to look at that , can somebody tell me what 's happened to world trade say in the last century , what are the major trends in world trade ? |
| 10 | ‘ Look , Jeremy , ’ Celia said for the second time . |
| 11 | " Now it is your turn for a wish , " Gabriel said to the second brother . |
| 12 | " All this is for you , " Gabriel said to the second brother . |
| 13 | De Gaulle said for the first time since their defeat , the French people had reason to hope for liberation . |
| 14 | In view of the understandable difficulty that this inelegant and complex piece of legislation presented to these people , one must stand in awe at what one Member , Sir Michael Havers , had the temerity to say at the Third Reading of the Bill : ‘ One of the great ambitions of successive Parliaments is to simplify the laws that they pass and make them more readily understood . ’ |
| 15 | Like Jim Larkin said in the First World War , ‘ Hang the Kaiser and all his relatives ’ , ' he said . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't say how I feel , ’ Herr Nordern said for the twentieth time . |
| 17 | ‘ We could get a boat , ’ Paul says for the eleventh time . |
| 18 | She remembered Elizabeth saying in the first weeks of her engagement to Alex , ‘ Do you know , you 're a rather intimidating couple ? ’ and she had been tempted to reply , ‘ Oh , we are , we are . ’ |
| 19 | Terry Betts said on the third day that he and his son had peaked too soon and errors put them four down after 13 holes , with the Piggotts to receive their second and final shot on the 14th . |