Example sentences of "said [pers pn] was the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dougald said his was the only party firmly committed to improving schools throughout Britain . |
| 2 | ‘ She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls . |
| 3 | One child referred to in court as child A , finally admitted taking James Bulger to a railway embankment near Walton but he said it was the other boy child B who threw bricks at him and hit him with a stick and a metal bar . |
| 4 | There was immediate uproar and they all said it was the other batsman who was out . |
| 5 | Garden birds roused themselves bravely , far off a cockerel said it was the new day and buzzards with peeinging whistle arced over the slowly silhouetting mountains . |
| 6 | Manby said it was the primary responsibility of the SSD and police to investigate fully such allegations . |
| 7 | Well , they always said it was the only way to go and he believed it . |
| 8 | I said well I apologize for sending all that sir , I said , but I said it was the only way to get somebody 's attention of what was going on ! |
| 9 | and he said it was the only year that he has n't . |
| 10 | He said it was the only thing that would get him through it . ’ |
| 11 | Oh he said it was the wrong number he said erm and Mrs erm |
| 12 | Throughout the campaign less than 3 per cent of voters said it was the main issue that should be discussed . |
| 13 | None the less , even in that week only 39 per cent of the electorate rated it ‘ extremely important ’ and a mere 7 per cent said it was the main issue that ‘ should be ’ discussed by the parties . |
| 14 | I had to wheedle the information out of him , but Capron said he was the senior case officer on the investigation into Mills , and could confirm absolutely that it was Mills who was the Soviet agent who had betrayed my father . |