Example sentences of "say at the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was said at the annual conference of the Association of District Councils on 1 July 1988 . |
| 2 | The first are the rich and well-born , the other the mass of the people " , Hamilton was reported as saying at the Federal Convention in 1787 . |
| 3 | The commission 's chair , Peter Tucker , said at the first session on Nov. 13 that it would consider the issue of single- or multiparty forms of government . |
| 4 | When he screened it privately for the director of the Cannes Film Festival , he was delighted with the reaction and was duly invited to exhibit Drive , He Said at the next festival in May 1971 . |
| 5 | In other words , friends at the school and the idea , as you said at the very beginning of your paper , is to report without any kind of erm censorship or judgment . |
| 6 | In short , as I said at the very beginning of this series of lectures , you must n't treat what as I say as gospel erm I am perfectly capable of being a little bit eccentric , possibly even a little bit erm original erm in my interpretations . |
| 7 | I said at the last meeting in Bungay in January that Bungay will cease to function within five years if something was n't done about it . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Oo , ’ they 'd say at the merest smear of mud , ‘ you had a pig in here ? ’ |