Example sentences of "say [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had made the length of Loch Ness in one day , not bad going for an old man on horseback ; ‘ when he rode , ’ says Boswell at the end of the Life , ‘ he had no command or direction of his horse , but was carried as if in a balloon . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ George finished his treatment three months ago and is doing well , ’ said Gary at the launch of his BBC children 's show We Are The Champions . |
| 3 | ‘ I can only do it when we 're in the middle of a conversation and you look at me speculatively and then say something anodyne in a voice that is so deliberately empty of judgment I can practically feel the strength of will you are exerting to keep it so , ’ said David with the hint of a laugh in his deep voice . |
| 4 | ‘ No need to freak out , ’ said Tina in the parlance of the time . |
| 5 | ‘ The future will not be a great one without a family , ’ said Leon with the wisdom of seventeen years . |
| 6 | ‘ So he 's kept close within , ’ said Owen at the end of it , ‘ and that 's no more than we expected . |
| 7 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 8 | ‘ Exactly , ’ said McInnes with the sort of grin Colonel Sanders gave when he saw a ‘ Free Range Eggs ’ sign . |
| 9 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ said Francis on the eve of the Coca-Cola Cup tie with Rangers . |
| 10 | ‘ Etonne-moi , ’ said Wexford after the manner of Diaghilev to Cocteau . |
| 11 | ‘ The forecast is for rain and I 'm not going to water the track , ’ said John to the dismay of User Friendly 's trainer Clive Brittain and jockey George Duffield . |