Example sentences of "said [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Walton , equity strategist at stockbrokers James Capel , said given the recent falls on Tokyo and New York , Britain is suddenly again a safe haven for investment . |
| 2 | ‘ Your father was a hard man for the women in his day , ’ McQuaid said addressing the two girls . |
| 3 | I said look the terrible Rottweilers are coming through the door . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll fix it , ’ I said to avoid the impending devastation . |
| 5 | Governors said reopening the sixth form would increase parental choice and win back pupils from independent schools . |
| 6 | I said playing the European Championships in Sweden would later take its toll on players and I have been proved correct . ’ |
| 7 | 4 What is Gene Kelly 's dance ‘ partner ’ in the splashing Singin' In The Rain sequence ? 5 During a dream sequence , Gene Kelly falls for a beautiful dark-haired dancer , said to have the greatest legs in Hollywood , Cyd C******* . |
| 8 | Hari said watching the young boy 's face . |
| 9 | There are two people Mario always said had the deepest influence on his life in motor sport . |
| 10 | The call , said to show the unhappy state of their marriage , was made in a ship-to-shore chat from HMS Campbeltown two years ago . |
| 11 | I said read the bloody words then and she said oh I never read the words she said I looks at the pictures . |
| 12 | Moreover a series of causes and scandals sustained them — from the iniquities of the Contagious Diseases Acts to the scandalous leniency meted out to high-class ‘ madams ’ , from the exploitation and abduction of young girls in the White Slave Trade to the marriage and other scandals of those in high places : the divorce case of Charles Dilke in 1886 ; of the Irish leader Parnell in 1890 ; the scandal of the Cleveland Street homosexual brothel , 1889–90 , said to involve the eldest son of the heir to the throne ; and the Tranby Croft gambling scandal of 1891 , which involved the Prince of Wales himself . |