Example sentences of "said [conj] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | DEC said that for the first time in six quarters it generated positive cash flow from operations and investments , even with restructuring activities . |
| 8 | The survey said that for the first time , there was a shift in reasons given for cutting back on red meat . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |