Example sentences of "said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Great , ’ she said for some inexplicable reason . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't say how I feel , ’ Herr Nordern said for the twentieth time . |
| 3 | ‘ So you 've got some more hen-food then , ’ he said for something to say . |
| 4 | ‘ Good boy , ’ the Italian said for the last time , thickly , breathless . |
| 5 | She put my book down , said for about the fourth time how sorry she was that she 'd missed my reading , but she 'd simply felt too shaky . |
| 6 | Occasionally he translated what I said for the benefit of the other two . |
| 7 | In our forefathers ' time … few books were read in our tongue , saving certain books of chivalry , as they said for pastime and pleasure … |
| 8 | ‘ Sure ? ’ she said for a second time . |
| 9 | IBM Corp reveals in the proxy statement for the annual meeting that total pay and benefits for chairman and chief executive John Akers fell 17% in 1992 to $1.3m — Akers ' variable incentive payout , which is based on operating results , was $375,000 , a decline of 42% on 1991 , reflecting both IBM 's performance against targets and relative performance from year to year ; IBM said for the past two years , Akers ' annual pay declined over $1.3m , a fall of 50% ; it proposes to elect John Akers to the board after quits the top job . |
| 10 | The report said for over 10 years , IBM has been booking immediately all the revenues from some long-term computer leases , getting a residual value guarantee from Merrill Lynch & Co to bring the total of the lease payments plus the residual value up to the 90% of the sale price that accountants regard as prudent for a sales-type lease . |
| 11 | The arrival of the carrack and the news of her betrothal was now well known in the barony , and the valedictory Mass said for her in the church of St James in Dingle was attended by the town Sovereign and the local dignitaries and as many of the working folk of Dingle and the surrounding villages as could find kneeling space in the church . |
| 12 | It was what we said for convenience ; there was no concept in Egypt of unmarried couples . |
| 13 | Okay and the other thing that you said for the the first question to what affects what affects he rate of reaction normally in a normal reaction. ? |
| 14 | When he spoke to her she could scarcely hear what he said for the thudding of her lovesick heart and the chattering of her teeth . |
| 15 | It had been built in the depression of 1870 — when most villagers were out of work — by the Countess of Saracen , whose birthday was still celebrated , and a mass said for her soul in the local Church of St Peter . |
| 16 | Christina disliked her nasal drawl , and said for the final time , ‘ Well , nice to have met you both . |
| 17 | He said for any project |
| 18 | I never said for sure that 's where the stuff would arrive . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Look , Jeremy , ’ Celia said for the second time . |
| 20 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 21 | Oh , yes , you could , you certainly could , and as I said for long periods , parental an and offspring self interest will overlap . |
| 22 | Nisodemus was , especially with the bit that said For Your Protection . |
| 23 | ‘ Rod Stewart could have a voice like that if he smoked more , ’ I said for the sake of something to say . |
| 24 | This was the most pertinent thing he said for me . |
| 25 | Ive said for a while that the missing ingredient in our side FOR THE WAY TEAMS PLAY TODAY is a bit of pace in central defence . |
| 26 | " You encouraged him , " she said for the tenth time . |
| 27 | De Gaulle said for the first time since their defeat , the French people had reason to hope for liberation . |
| 28 | His solicitor said for some reason he 'd been involved since last December in a campaign of total destruction of both himself and other people , but now there was some hope for the future . |
| 29 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
| 30 | I said to her as how seeing I 'm sixty one christmas I said I I ca n't , I thought it was stupid I said for erm for them to mess around like that . |