Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Godfrey Amoo said of Ali : ‘ I try to copy his style , his footwork and the man generally — everything about him . ’ |
| 2 | Dr Hugh Dalton , MP for Peckham and later to become Attlee 's first Chancellor , had already been chosen to succeed Ben Spoor said to be an alcoholic in the Co Durham constituency . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't say how I feel , ’ Herr Nordern said for the twentieth time . |
| 4 | ‘ Homework , ’ Herr Nordern said with more sympathy than he would normally have allowed himself . |
| 5 | Deputy Prime Minister Narcís Serra Serra said on July 11 : " The only thing that they have to do is to stop killing . " |
| 6 | ARSENAL striker Ian Wright said after the game he thought he had snatched a late winner for Arsenal before Woods made a superb 89th minute save . |
| 7 | ‘ Have some coffee , ’ the March Hare said in a friendly voice . |
| 8 | Sentencing Fisher Mr Justice Judge said of the rape of the pahrmacist ’ No one who saw her give evidence will forget her visible revulsion as she described what happened . ’ |
| 9 | As Lord er the Lord Chief Justice said in a television programme Question Time er two nights ago it takes a good deal of experience before somebody 's qualified to be a judge and when you do become a judge you have a great deal to learn . |
| 10 | In the middle of the first week of Matilda 's first term , Miss Honey said to the class , ‘ I have some important news for you , so listen carefully . |
| 11 | In the morning Miss Honey said to them , ‘ One or two of you did not particularly enjoy the last occasion when the Headmistress took the class , so let us all try to be especially careful and clever today . |
| 12 | Miss Honey said to the class , ‘ I think you 'd all better go out to the playground and amuse yourselves until the next lesson . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If it 's meant to be a joke , Headmistress , I do n't think it 's a very funny one , ’ Miss Honey said from the back of the class . |
| 14 | Police Chief Superintendent David Baker said of the flare-up : ‘ It was a family day out with a carnival atmosphere right up to the end of the evening . |
| 15 | There was , however , growing pressure from radical groups for Iran to form such an Islamic alliance ; former Interior Minister Ali Akbar Mohtashemi said on Jan. 20 that " the Iranian nation has a religious duty to rise for a jihad " [ see also p. 37696 ] . |
| 16 | Israeli Foreign Minister David Levi said on Jan. 22 that the USA was also to provide Israel with battle reports , logistical information and instantaneous " real-time " satellite reconnaissance data under a " joint co-ordination apparatus " . |
| 17 | Committee chairman David Lyonette said outside the meeting the authority had already successfully removed billboards around the town including Haughton Road and was looking at removing others along High Northgate . |
| 18 | The FLN secretary-general Abdelhamid Mehri said on May 9 that the repossessions would be challenged in the courts . |
| 19 | Your eyesight 's not good enough , ’ Miss Dersingham said with exasperation . |
| 20 | Socialist MP Jean Zeigler said in parliament that Mr Thatcher was implicated in an ‘ extensive traffic ’ of arms to Iraq in deals allegedly conducted from Switzerland . |
| 21 | When they had all gone , Miss Havisham said to me , |
| 22 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Oh dear , oh dear , ’ Miss Williams said on an indrawn breath . |
| 24 | On another occasion David Bellamy said to me ‘ You ca n't tell me that a canoe would not disturb an otter ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ YOU 'VE got to get rid of the males , ’ David Gardner said with such fierce determination that he conjured up an image of concentration camps for male hops in remote parts of Kent . |
| 26 | We can still get a profound sense of all this today from that astonishing visual image of Scottish self-awareness , the heraldic ceiling of St Machar 's cathedral in Aberdeen , constructed by bishop Gavin Dunbar between 1519 and 1522 and , as David McRoberts said in his account of it , ‘ quite unique in Europe ’ . |
| 27 | PLO chairman Yasser Arafat will go to Washington to sign a historic self-rule deal with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Monday , Arafat aide Hakam Balawi said in Tunis today . |
| 28 | Suter chairman David Abell said of the Chemoxy operation : ‘ The skills of its management and flexibility in adapting to difficult market circumstances have enabled it to seize opportunities . ’ |
| 29 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 30 | NALGO branch spokesman Richard Brunner said of the appeal : ‘ It 's not looking particularly optimistic . ’ |