Example sentences of "said [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson said the company discusses investment only on a global , company-wide basis , and has said nothing specific about investing in Malaysia . |
| 2 | But the company planning the takeover has said its determined to fight on , and has extended its deadline for shareholders . |
| 3 | Lewis knew , yes ; but he waited a little , nodding his sympathy to a woman who , for the moment , had said her immediate say . |
| 4 | Freud might have said her emotional life was frozen , like the Alps . |
| 5 | But you 've just said one big one |
| 6 | She had a little pug-like dog who wore an expression of perpetual outrage , its eyes bulging as though someone had just said something unforgivable to it . |
| 7 | Thus I might say to someone " Let's go and find out which is the oldest tree in the park " , without fearing that I may have said something unintelligible just because neither of us is certain what the outcome of our search will be . |
| 8 | I could 've said something frightful . ’ |
| 9 | Samuel Johnson might have said something similar , though in a very different idiom , about some accepted masterpiece of European literature . |
| 10 | William Pitt had said something similar a hundred years before , ‘ Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it ’ , but before that the idea does not seem to have been attractive . |
| 11 | While they glared at each other he recalled that Carrie had said something similar earlier in the day . |
| 12 | But he had already said something similar to Burun , and did not know which of his words had been repeated verbatim . |
| 13 | It had become a joke between them ; he had said something similar when she told him she was off to Milan . |
| 14 | He 'd said something similar once before and it had made Ronni feel a tiny bit guilty . |
| 15 | I love Kate and every time I 've said something nasty about her , I 'm sorry . |
| 16 | The Direktor was silent and when Willi looked at him he was staring down at his glass , a disconcerted expression on his face as though Willi had said something embarrassing . |
| 17 | Tessa looked at me as if I had said something odd . |
| 18 | After lunch , Madame Edith Cresson , Mr Mitterrand 's French Source , was pounced upon by the Broadcasting Bill 's finest and made to admit that La Dame de Fer had said something positive . |
| 19 | So the Government supports Percent for Art and I would have hoped that it would have at least done a little bit of er work little bit of homework and I would have hoped that those members that went to the Percent for Art seminar would have stood up and said something positive about what it 's about . |
| 20 | ‘ Have I said something amusing ? ’ |
| 21 | Father Branche looked puzzled for a moment , as if he might have said something amusing . |
| 22 | Afterwards Lewis wished he had said something scathing , alluding perhaps to the lateness of the hour or Adam 's appearance . |
| 23 | A spokesman said : ‘ If the parrot could talk it might have said something unpleasant about having its wings clipped . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Punch doing penance for his error of 35 years ago , ’ — presumably around 1884 he had said something silly about women in Parliament — ‘ and begs to offer his respectful congratulations to Lady Astor ’ . |
| 25 | At Oxford , it had often discomposed me , as if I had said something foolish or affected , unworthy of comment . |
| 26 | He paused for a moment and she realized that she had said something wrong . |
| 27 | ‘ Have I said something wrong ? ’ |
| 28 | He wondered whether he 'd said something unwise again . |
| 29 | Later , I believe , it was taken out of her hands for , having said something disobliging in an interview , she was blacklisted , and another woman of the same name had difficulty in entering the country . |
| 30 | they 're dead naff , right , cos Steve Wright in the afternoon as a thing , he says , he says , what do you want Essex girl and he 's said something funny she 'll , she 'll go , you crack me right up you do , you make me crack right up , right and they 're suppose and they are , well I do n't know , but they 're supposed to be really naff |