Example sentences of "[adj] said [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than half said their pay last year had not increased , or even fell . |
| 2 | In sharp contrast , three quarters of all newspaper readers said that the papers they had read on the day of the interview were biased in their coverage of the Conservative and Labour parties , though less than half said their papers gave biased coverage of the Alliance . |
| 3 | Three-quarters of all newspaper readers in our panel agreed that the papers they had read on the day of the interview were biased in their coverage of the Conservative and Labour parties , though less than half said their papers gave biased coverage of the Alliance . |
| 4 | Some said his wife did n't turn a hair any more when Sammy was carried in like a drowned rat . |
| 5 | Some said his jokes would be too blue for the Labour candidates tastes . |
| 6 | In Asia Minor about 110 the younger Pliny , the governor of Bithynia , asked Trajan whether the profession of Christianity was in itself culpable or ‘ the vices associated with the name ’ , especially since after investigation by torture he had discovered that there were no frightful vices : the accused said their custom was to meet before dawn on a particular day to sing a hymn to Christ as a god and to take an oath ( sacramentum ) to abstain from wrongdoing . |
| 7 | Three-quarters said its design appealed to them and 92 per cent found it easy to read . |
| 8 | Boston Five Chairman Peter Blampied said his executives succeeded this year in returning the bank to profitability but it was clear that further rebuilding and expansion would require time and capital beyond Boston Five 's present means . |
| 9 | That said his fitness has to be 100% for Wilko to play him at all , and he clearly is liable to get himself sent off . |
| 10 | We each said our piece , each absolutely predictable . |
| 11 | Asked who they respected , most said their parents . |
| 12 | In a study of 150 debtors by Queen Mary College , a third said their health had suffered ; just under a third said their family 's health had suffered ; and two debtors had taken drug doses following the bailiff 's visit . |
| 13 | In a study of 150 debtors by Queen Mary College , a third said their health had suffered ; just under a third said their family 's health had suffered ; and two debtors had taken drug doses following the bailiff 's visit . |
| 14 | Univel Inc said its price cuts last week ( see front page ) removed one of the last barriers to the rapid adoption of Unix-on-Intel as a client/server solution . |