Example sentences of "[noun] said [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The truth , about which we spoke so often in the past few years , has been reaffirmed once again — where there is a delay in dealing with overripe problems , excesses are inevitable , ’ Gorbachev said in the Tass transcript of his speech . |
| 2 | Levi said after the EC delegation 's visit that pressure or sanctions against Israel would be counterproductive and would achieve nothing . |
| 3 | Sir Anthony said on the BBC 's World at One : ‘ I almost certainly will challenge her in the first round if no one else comes forward . |
| 4 | ‘ It is still too early to say whether the peak in unemployment has passed , but the likelihood of sustained increases in unemployment in the months to come recedes with each monthly fall , ’ officials said in the June monthly monetary report . |
| 5 | As Lord Morris said in the Esso case these are helpful expositions provided that they are not used too literally . |
| 6 | Ulster Secretary Peter Brooke said in the Commons yesterday that Whitehall 's examination of the application for 400 more officers was in its final stages . |
| 7 | Mr Ashdown said on the BBC 's Election Call : ‘ It remains our view that we should honour the rights of passport holders in Hong Kong . ’ |
| 8 | ( 1986 ) 162 C.L.R. 24 , 38 , Mason J. said of the Carltona principle : |
| 9 | Racing manager Jimmy Nunn said of the Northern Ireland bred racer : ‘ She looks like being one to watch . |
| 10 | However , President Ros Marsh said after the Ealing game that the club 's main aim for next season should be to get the As back into the East Super League , where Chelmsford deserved representation . |
| 11 | Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev said at the Oct. 5 meeting that the CIS " would not be a mechanism for a civilised divorce but an instrument for ever stronger co-operation between the states " . |
| 12 | Maurin said to the Josephs : ‘ This looks very bad , very bad indeed . ’ |
| 13 | It is hard to decide whether the result is better seen as self-indulgent twaddle , or , as Robert Lowell said of the Oxford Book of Modern Verse : ‘ Maybe it 's the ultimate Larkin poem ’ , so maybe this is the supreme Ted Hughes fiction . |
| 14 | As Denis Thatcher said in the Falklands , ‘ some things never change ’ . |
| 15 | Executives at the BBC were delighted by something John Major said in the Commons . |
| 16 | ‘ Frankly , it beggars belief that so many more people have suddenly become invalids , especially at a time when the health of the nation has improved , ’ Mr Major said in the Commons . |
| 17 | ‘ Frankly , it beggars belief that so many more people have suddenly become invalids , especially at a time when the health of the nation has improved , ’ Mr Major said in the Commons . |
| 18 | Clarke said of the Masai in his annual report for 1950 : ‘ Their advocate ’ , he wrote , ‘ is Nature . ’ |
| 19 | As the cow said to the Maine farmer , ‘ Thank you for a warm hand on a cold morning . ’ |
| 20 | President-elect Clinton , in the second day of his barnstorming session on the economy in Little Rock , Arkansas said of the IBM cut-backs ‘ That kind of investment is the exact thing we do n't want them to be cutting . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It is finally clear to the Muslims that there will be no unitary Bosnia under their domination , ’ Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said after the United States , Russia and key Western allies agreed on a new containment strategy . |
| 22 | No general rules can be laid down as to the reasonableness of a time period because these obviously depend on the facts of each case , however as Lord Shaw said in the Morris ( Herbert ) case " as the time of the restriction lengthens and the space of its operation extends , the weight of the onus on the covenantee grows " . |
| 23 | Baroness Strange said during the Lords ' debate in February : |
| 24 | What The Clay Said To The Potter |