Example sentences of "[noun prp] say [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's a lot of method here ; it 's not as arbitrary as it seems , ’ David says of the heady mixture of pattern and texture . |
| 2 | His loyal and seemingly very level-headed wife Nesta says of the second sex scandal he has been involved in during their marriage : |
| 3 | Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) . |
| 4 | As Angela Issajenko said at the Canadian Drug Abuse Enquiry in 1989 , people are never going to admit to taking drugs . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew she 'd have on an apron , ’ Carlie said to the social worker . |
| 6 | ‘ You can manage that , Katherine , ’ Sylvie said to the gathered guests . |
| 7 | I need a big packet of cornflakes ’ Linda said to the tall assistant He smiled and handed one down to her and she raced off . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's been five years since I won , ’ Levi said after the round , ‘ five years of struggling . |
| 9 | Spokesman Tim Roberts said in the past decade doorstep sales had declined , mainly due to supermarkets . |
| 10 | As Sir John Harrington said in the sixteenth century : |
| 11 | ‘ We jes ’ dropped in t'cheer ‘ im up , doc ’ , ’ Curtis said to the white-coated back , as the doctor prepared a syringe and slid the needle expertly into a vein in Grant 's arm . |
| 12 | ‘ We must consciously set out to win new constituencies of support , ’ Mr Gould said in the same room where five hours earlier his opponent , Mr John Smith , mounted his own challenge . |
| 13 | Hankin said of the young midfielder , who can also play in defence : ‘ It is a big opportunity for the lad in front of a crowd of 13,000 or 14,000 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ You shit-faced , yellow-bellied bastard , ’ Sharpe said to the sprawling Lord John . |
| 16 | ‘ Knock , knock , ’ Laidlaw said from the open doorway behind him . |
| 17 | Describing the CNAA in 1965 , Venables said of the wider powers given to it than those of the NCTA , that it was apparent that ‘ it is government policy for the CNAA to exert a central role in the rapid development of a quasi-university system within ‘ the public sector ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Some sixth form boys came up and Taggy Dixon said to the domestic science teacher Mrs Pattinson : ‘ The King is dead . ’ |
| 19 | Hazlitt said of the Lyrical Ballads — ‘ Fools have laughed at , wise men scarcely understand them ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's only for a time , ’ Fred said on the last night of the tour . |
| 21 | designed to attract a maximum profit without really thinking it through so in this way I do quite a strong Martin said in the previous two speeches . |
| 22 | Wayne said as the two of them sat in the empty hull of a partly-restored cruiser on the Saturday morning , but Pete could only shrug . |
| 23 | I tried to apply what Wittgenstein says about the dual use of the word ‘ strain' to the dual use of the word ‘ hot ’ , and wrote up my conclusions in a paper entitled ‘ Berkeley and Sensations of Heat . ’ |
| 24 | In fact the six-year-old is saying things remarkably similar to what Ludwig Wittgenstein says in The Blue Book . |
| 25 | ‘ We are ready for any onslaught that the white authorities might try to launch against us , ’ Mr Rockman said after the first meeting in his home on Monday of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union . |
| 26 | ‘ I was n't sure what you 'd want to do , ’ Rose said with the utmost caution , ‘ and I brought a flask of tea and sandwiches just in case . ’ |
| 27 | As Ernest Bevin said at the Labour rally the other day — ‘ |
| 28 | Jesus said to the penitent thief , ‘ Today you will be with me in paradise ’ ( Luke 23:43 ) . |
| 29 | As the Principal and Vice-chancellor of Napier University , Professor William A Turmeau said to the packed courtyard at Merchiston : ‘ Our institution opened right here as Napier College in 1964 and this is a really great day , for all of us . |
| 30 | Dr Peter Ritchie of North Tees said in the current financial year , 5pc of total bed days would occupied by Middlesbrough patients . |