Example sentences of "said [conj] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that despite the Rotary Club being made up mainly of shopkeepers and small businessmen , they had been ‘ very helpful ’ in putting them in touch with Rotary contacts in London . |
| 2 | He said that at the recent mission in Cambridge Billy Graham had taught the grossest doctrines . |
| 3 | Addressing the Assembly , Yeltsin said that at the forthcoming Congress he expected an attempt to retreat from reforms . |
| 4 | He said that at the original trial , the magazine had no idea £25,000 had been paid to Mrs Sutcliffe by Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones - and nor had the jury . |
| 5 | Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash . |
| 6 | He said that during the first interview Hepburn had denied any involvement , but when seen again 40 minutes later ‘ frankly said that he was responsible for the assaults on both girls ’ . |
| 7 | In the conference call that followed Digital Equipment Corp 's announcement of its figures ( CI No 2,148 ) , news of which did n't reach us until after close of play on Wednesday , company executives said that their outlook for the rest of the year continues to be cautious given the current economic environment , and they declined to forecast profits : Bill Steul , chief financial officer , said that during the third quarter , DEC 's US business showed a decline of just under 5% , and that total product revenues were flat , while services grew at about 12% in the quarter ; business was a little soft in Germany and France and continues to be down in Japan , but that there are some signs of improvement in Japan ; DEC , in its final quarter of fiscal 1993 , does not expect much in revenues from its Alpha-based systems running Microsoft Corp 's new NT operating system before next fiscal . |
| 8 | He said that under the present system , witnesses might give evidence on issues which turned out not to be in dispute — wasting court time . |
| 9 | DUP councillor Sammy Wilson said that for the second year running he had been swamped with complaints from local people who feel they are living in ‘ eyesores ’ . |
| 10 | One young farmer , Shermani Yussef , said that for the first time in his life he had been forced to lease some of his land to cover his losses . |
| 11 | While feeling a little sad at leaving , Mr. Offer said that for the first time he would be looking forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning . |
| 12 | DEC said that for the first time in six quarters it generated positive cash flow from operations and investments , even with restructuring activities . |
| 13 | The survey said that for the first time , there was a shift in reasons given for cutting back on red meat . |
| 14 | Commenting on the Khmer Rouge position at the talks , the Independent of June 27 said that for the first time in three years of diplomacy , the group appeared " unsure of themselves , and nervous of being outmanoeuvred " . |
| 15 | Last year Stan Gooch said that among the Chinese lefthandedness runs at 18 per cent whereas the figure for Westerners ( which we presume to mean Europeans ) is only 9 per cent ( Letters , vol 95 , p 258 ) . |
| 16 | The Provence seems to have been Miller 's favourite type of rose ; he frequently stressed its outstanding fragrance , an important consideration in the flower garden , and said that by the mid-eighteenth century it had become the most widely propagated of any kind . |
| 17 | He always said that in the vain hope that the girl would respond to him differently from all the others who had so casually used her body . |
| 18 | TI said that in the first quarter it will start knocking off Tsunami derivatives , differentiating features such as cache size , floating point and Sbus according to customer demand . |
| 19 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |
| 20 | She said that in the Southern General alone , £80,000 is being spent on new cookers which should guarantee vegetables that areal dente . |
| 21 | He said that in the interim period Mr Redwood had decided to establish an advisory committee to issue advice on specific issues which need to be tackled in advance of the Commission . |
| 22 | Mr Delors said that in the short run MEPs should be given greater powers to hold the EC executive responsible when national governments transferred powers to Brussels — under a new European treaty for economic and monetary union . |
| 23 | In presenting the proposals the president of the Commission , Jacques Delors , said that in the post-Maastricht era the " EC must find new money if it is to have a greater profile on the international scene " . |
| 24 | Urging the appointment of party leaders with knowledge of each country and their languages Mr Biffen said that in the longer term visits could develop into reciprocal exchange schemes which would be to everyone 's benefit . |
| 25 | Retail price rises averaged 17.8 per cent for the year , but foreign economists said that in the fourth quarter inflation scarcely rose above zero . |
| 26 | The next point that upset him was that I said that unlike the American President , the Prime Minister was relieved of a great deal of official ceremonial by the Queen and Prince Philip . |
| 27 | I said because in the bloody book there 's no cars on the roundabout and I says it ! |