Example sentences of "say was the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of 77 he still trains regularly , keeping fit he says was the best part of his career . |
| 2 | Intense artillery and mortar bombardments claimed 14 lives in the eastern Croatian town of Osijek in what Croatian officials said was the heaviest onslaught by Serbian forces since a ceasefire accord was signed last January . |
| 3 | Attacking what he said was the limited usefulness of the measures , he said : ‘ The situation is so desperate that anything seems better than nothing , even when what the Government is proposing is next to nothing . ’ |
| 4 | A Sudanese army spokesman on Dec. 20 criticized what it said was the Kenyan government 's support for " certain foreign circles and the colonialist churches " which he said were trying to bring together the divided rebel groups in the south and to persuade them to secede . |
| 5 | In what Western experts said was the first recognition of the extent of Kremlin military activity , Lieutenant-General Anatoly Sidorov listed Korea , Egypt , Syria , Angola and Ethiopia as other countries where Soviet troops fought . |
| 6 | Amnesty denounced what it said was the general failure by the Brazilian authorities to take action . |
| 7 | I took this medical test to be a sign that things were happening and that we could hope to go on to Paris , which Alex said was the next staging post . |
| 8 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 9 | A SHERIFF yesterday reported a solicitor to the Law Society of Scotland for what he said was the worst courtroom behaviour he had seen in 40 years . |
| 10 | Nevertheless there ought to be some control somewhere and we 're getting back to what I think Richard said was the original idea of some kind of development control that is a popular thing in order to be allowed , people ought to make money for the various charities and so on , we ought to try and prevent er certain unjust practices going on and so on . |
| 11 | How do you get rid of , what 's the best , what did I say was the best way of getting rid of everything out of the cell ? |
| 12 | What would you say was the main task of managers ? |
| 13 | What did you say was the last thing you remembered ? ’ |