Example sentences of "said [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In her lifetime , nobody had said dear Faith , though they had loved her .
2 The clever devil who 'd answered the phone had said private calls after four p.m. , which I guessed would be a shift change for the staff .
3 President Bush has said Allied aircraft are ready to attack again if the need should arise .
4 If it had said solid silver I 'd have been down the h down the s down the high street .
5 UN officials have said stockpiled food may spoil , and Ms Landgren added that a shell which had damaged a warehouse on Saturday had also ‘ alerted us to the danger of letting stuff pile up . ’
6 But the Government has said public money will not be available for at least 15 years .
7 I do not include in that 70 the number of occasions when the hon. Members for Brightside and for Dagenham have said contradictory things .
8 The Secretary of State had already said future applications to build power stations would be considered on their own merit and not because there was spare capacity .
9 Though the flippant Mr Ratner has said similar things in private before , the strident headlines produced by his speech seem to have shaken him .
10 It struck me that Jenny , my daughter , had said similar words to me years ago , and I had ignored them .
11 Doctors dare not remove an airgun pellet lodged less than a millimetre from the optic nerve of Nicola Child 's right eye and have said sudden movement could blind the 15-year-old .
12 He has said Egyptian troops would remain in the Gulf until they complete their mission , which he describes as aiding Kuwait under joint Arab defence agreements .
13 The man had said good morning and Rufus had said hallo and had returned to the task he and Mary were embarked on , covering the flagstones of the terrace with quilts from the bedrooms .
14 AS NEWLY-formed TV AM said Good Morning Britain , those likely lads Clement and Le Frenais waved goodbye to Blighty , and threw a disparate gang of regional archetype brickies together in Dusseldorf for good-humoured , working class comic-drama on-site .
15 Have you said good morning Jim ?
16 Oh , oh well they have said grey coat from anywhere , just a long grey coat , uhum .
17 The defence have said medical evidence gleaned from tests on Mr Harris ' brain shows he suffers from a rare abnormality .
18 They had been caught playing mother and father in the hay rick and Tristram had got into trouble for it and Uncle Harry had said evil things and called her mother a whore .
19 You might find it 's a little bit strange me stood up here talking to you about temporary labour , part-time workers , when you 've heard what Asda 's gone through and said temporary labour situations all morning .
20 Yesterday gunmen opened fire on a taxi queue , no one was injured but paramilitaries have said mass murder of catholics is their objective .
21 An HMI report had said Welsh schools needed to do more to promote environmental good practice .
22 Now the authority of the community was carried by the Sanhedrin they brought him to what is what they accepted as a trial erm they 'd assessed that something was going against their structures , and as I 've already said religious life was the most important thing he 'd broken it seems a religious law and the council the court the gathering together of the seventy members of the Sanhedrin were going to in a serious sort of way check this out , check this accusation out .
23 And to be honest I would n't have argued if anyone had said whole day .
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