Example sentences of "[noun] say [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experts say with the right help , the problems are easy to overcome ; both mother and child benefit . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's a lot of method here ; it 's not as arbitrary as it seems , ’ David says of the heady mixture of pattern and texture . |
| 3 | His loyal and seemingly very level-headed wife Nesta says of the second sex scandal he has been involved in during their marriage : |
| 4 | Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) . |
| 5 | For example , each side said about the other side : |
| 6 | indeed visiting headteachers said to the young teachers from university , polytechnic and college courses in September 1989 , ‘ You tell us about it — inevitably you have had more time to learn about it than we have . ’ |
| 7 | As Angela Issajenko said at the Canadian Drug Abuse Enquiry in 1989 , people are never going to admit to taking drugs . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew she 'd have on an apron , ’ Carlie said to the social worker . |
| 9 | ‘ You can manage that , Katherine , ’ Sylvie said to the gathered guests . |
| 10 | I need a big packet of cornflakes ’ Linda said to the tall assistant He smiled and handed one down to her and she raced off . |
| 11 | Spokesman Tim Roberts said in the past decade doorstep sales had declined , mainly due to supermarkets . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | As Sir John Harrington said in the sixteenth century : |
| 14 | ‘ We jes ’ dropped in t'cheer ‘ im up , doc ’ , ’ Curtis said to the white-coated back , as the doctor prepared a syringe and slid the needle expertly into a vein in Grant 's arm . |
| 15 | ‘ We must consciously set out to win new constituencies of support , ’ Mr Gould said in the same room where five hours earlier his opponent , Mr John Smith , mounted his own challenge . |
| 16 | Hankin said of the young midfielder , who can also play in defence : ‘ It is a big opportunity for the lad in front of a crowd of 13,000 or 14,000 . |
| 17 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
| 18 | ‘ You shit-faced , yellow-bellied bastard , ’ Sharpe said to the sprawling Lord John . |
| 19 | Yesterday , the shadow Chancellor said on the early morning news that Britain should fall into line with its partners — in other words , that we should give in to them without bothering to do anything to secure the best deal for this country . |
| 20 | But as one parent said at the last gathering : ‘ Why do we all have to be so matey ? ’ |
| 21 | What did the big chimney say to the little chimney ? |
| 22 | What did the big chimney say to the little chimney ? |
| 23 | What did the big chimney say to the little chimney ? |
| 24 | ‘ Knock , knock , ’ Laidlaw said from the open doorway behind him . |
| 25 | Describing the CNAA in 1965 , Venables said of the wider powers given to it than those of the NCTA , that it was apparent that ‘ it is government policy for the CNAA to exert a central role in the rapid development of a quasi-university system within ‘ the public sector ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Some sixth form boys came up and Taggy Dixon said to the domestic science teacher Mrs Pattinson : ‘ The King is dead . ’ |
| 27 | Hazlitt said of the Lyrical Ballads — ‘ Fools have laughed at , wise men scarcely understand them ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's only for a time , ’ Fred said on the last night of the tour . |
| 29 | It might be that a friend says to the young man who is thinking of living in Bali ‘ You do n't really believe that nonsense , you 're playing at being Gauguin' . |
| 30 | I tried to apply what Wittgenstein says about the dual use of the word ‘ strain' to the dual use of the word ‘ hot ’ , and wrote up my conclusions in a paper entitled ‘ Berkeley and Sensations of Heat . ’ |