Example sentences of "said [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , it was said loud and clear at our political rally last night here in Portsmouth .
2 In her lifetime , nobody had said dear Faith , though they had loved her .
3 The clever devil who 'd answered the phone had said private calls after four p.m. , which I guessed would be a shift change for the staff .
4 Now the father-of-three has said sorry for getting too fresh in his chambers there .
5 She has never said sorry for killing bride
6 A WEALTHY socialite was branded ‘ callous ’ by a grieving family yesterday — because she has never said sorry to them for killing their daughter .
7 She smiled : ‘ I had n't said sorry yet , had I ? ’
8 I have not said sorry but I forgot .
9 President Bush has said Allied aircraft are ready to attack again if the need should arise .
10 If it had said solid silver I 'd have been down the h down the s down the high street .
11 UN officials have said stockpiled food may spoil , and Ms Landgren added that a shell which had damaged a warehouse on Saturday had also ‘ alerted us to the danger of letting stuff pile up . ’
12 I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away .
13 I have not said clear away , it is not the end of the lesson and some of you have not worked hard enough to make the end of the lesson now if you do n't want to make the whole poem rhyme , what you might want to do is to put two lines together at a time and have those rhyming , paired rhymes , rhyming couplets , you can do that .
14 Henceforth the neophyte cadet will not address any Imperial Fist unless said Marine first addresses the cadet .
15 But the Government has said public money will not be available for at least 15 years .
16 I would n't have said wrong , but not correct .
17 I do not include in that 70 the number of occasions when the hon. Members for Brightside and for Dagenham have said contradictory things .
18 The Secretary of State had already said future applications to build power stations would be considered on their own merit and not because there was spare capacity .
19 Though the flippant Mr Ratner has said similar things in private before , the strident headlines produced by his speech seem to have shaken him .
20 It struck me that Jenny , my daughter , had said similar words to me years ago , and I had ignored them .
21 He 'd nearly said cooked .
22 She 'd said FINE .
23 Someone had said unfair , do n't , it 's a shame , and Davies had shoved him again , jarring his shoulder against the brick .
24 Informix Software Inc has opened an office in Prague , Czechoslovakia : others are said likely to follow in Poland , Hungary and CIS .
25 I should of said little
26 I 've said little about the rich descriptive skill , the human insight with which he leads the reader through humorous happenings , tragic episodes , through the follies of social manoeuvring and the deceptions of love , through a portrait gallery of adolescent girls , aging homosexuals , upstart socialites , and solidly sensible servants , to an eventual understanding of his , Marcel 's , artistic vocation .
27 Doctors dare not remove an airgun pellet lodged less than a millimetre from the optic nerve of Nicola Child 's right eye and have said sudden movement could blind the 15-year-old .
28 The way Natasha had said incredible was hysterical to hear .
29 He has said Egyptian troops would remain in the Gulf until they complete their mission , which he describes as aiding Kuwait under joint Arab defence agreements .
30 He had nearly said stupid and stopped himself in time .
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