Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Homework , ’ Herr Nordern said with more sympathy than he would normally have allowed himself . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | And county consumer protection officer David Holliday says despite extensive publicity only a trickle of people have been using them . |
| 4 | Tina Turner says of ex-husband Ike : ‘ I looked on him as big brother and mentor but , after our marriage , he revealed a terrible temper . |
| 5 | The atmosphere was , however , cordial , if not convivial , and the talk was of what grandchildren were up to or what Dr So-and-so said about this or that particular problem . |
| 6 | Ardiles said he began to mistrust Swindon Town 's former chairman Brian Hillier , who 's on trial with Macari , and former club accountant Vince Farrar.Ardiles said in 1990 he stopped offering the cash bonuses , and players were soon paid a monthly salary direct into their bank accounts.Macari , Hillier , and Farrar deny the charges , and the case continues . |
| 7 | Aunt Emily said with real warmth , ‘ I am so glad , my dear . |
| 8 | Dr Prescott said in New Scientist today that it gave a ‘ big boost ’ which salt or sugar alone could not provide . |
| 9 | Kambiz Atabai , a slim , good-looking and asked him if he would share his secret and Dr Shakhar said by all means . |
| 10 | Replying directly to a businesswoman 's plea during the debate for ‘ one more little miracle ’ to ease the impact of the new rate on firms , Mr Lawson said to muted applause : ‘ The answer is that there is no alternative , and the policy will work . ’ |
| 11 | All would be revealed , Mr Gorbachev said on national television , for the Soviet people had a right to know . |
| 12 | Erm we 're quite happy with with what Mr Curtis says about that , er we acknowledge that er while the need will be er probably much greater than the it 's a physical fact of life in York that there is n't a great deal of er available land . |
| 13 | They were , as Secretary of State Ted Short said in 1968 , ‘ strongly identified with the LEA system ’ : |
| 14 | Thus when the HMI team says of Danish heads that ‘ some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ , they are in reality applying a British idea to a situation which it does not altogether fit . |
| 15 | Phil Thornally : As Fred Trueman said of Indoor League , ‘ I 'll sithee ’ . |
| 16 | I know that Pam Palmer said of one of her friends whose husband who 's having he did n't like his work . |
| 17 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |
| 18 | Mocking Mrs Thatcher 's claim that Conservative policies had achieved an economic miracle , Mr Kinnock said after 10 years with oil revenues not enjoyed by any of Britain 's competitors , the country had 2 million unemployed , the highest inflation , highest interest rates and biggest balance of payments deficit of the industrialised countries . |
| 19 | Mr Ridley said in 1987 that it could not lend to those who seemed unlikely to be able to service their debts — He went too far : technically , it could . |
| 20 | ‘ Let him be , ’ Uncle Nick said at last . |
| 21 | Mr Mendine said in those conditions driving was difficult because the inside of the cab steamed up with condensation , the windscreen wipers did not clear the whole of the screen and the front lights were obscured when carrying a high load . |
| 22 | Mr Widmer said in recent years , the councils had failed to fully reimburse the bus companies in line with the agreement . |
| 23 | ‘ My good girl , ’ Mr Beckenham said in some embarrassment , ‘ I can assure you my troubles are vastly inferior to your own . |
| 24 | The composer generally credited with the introduction of the stylo recitativo into England was Nicholas Lanier ( 1588–1666 ) , composer , singer , lutenist , Master of the King 's Music , and deviser of masques at the court of Charles I , but there is some doubt whether what Ben Jonson said in 1640 that Lanier ‘ spake in song ’ in two of his masques in 1617 — was genuine recitative or only declamatory song . |
| 25 | Jim Wagstaffe says at first he was shocked … and then delighted by the news that his wife was expecting . |
| 26 | ‘ In the winter months , ’ Mrs Corduroy said with smiling determination , ‘ he misses the rat race . |
| 27 | The commitment to ring fence for as long as necessary , as Baroness Hooper said in another place , will allow the Secretary of State arbitrarily to decide that , if he wishes to allocate the funds to some other project , he could deem the necessity to have ceased . |
| 28 | Doctor and pathologist Professor Pietro Croce says in one of his articles : ‘ One only needs to find the appropriate animal species to obtain the desired result . |
| 29 | ‘ You must be crazy , ’ Pietro Miletti said at last . |
| 30 | ‘ What Philip Larkin said about short stories was very useful , and those that were poems . |