Example sentences of "said [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , Jeremy , ’ Celia said for the second time . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't say how I feel , ’ Herr Nordern said for the twentieth time . |
| 3 | She said she said for the first week you unwind , I thought if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you 're back to work again ! |
| 4 | De Gaulle said for the first time since their defeat , the French people had reason to hope for liberation . |
| 5 | " You encouraged him , " she said for the tenth time . |
| 6 | ‘ Good boy , ’ the Italian said for the last time , thickly , breathless . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | This is what he said in the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill on 21 May 1992 : |
| 9 | This is what he said in the Second Reading of the Maastricht bill : |
| 10 | The incentive for Preston to win was to go top of the table … enough said in the second half Ellis ran away with it to make it three-nil … |
| 11 | The 57,000 boat people in Hong Kong are taxing the colony 's resources and nearly 90 per cent of new arrivals are unlikely to qualify as refugees , he said in the second day 's debate on the Queen 's speech . |
| 12 | As I said in the nineteenth century government did very little . |
| 13 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
| 14 | You 've shown that you 've moved erm , substantially towards variable debt but there is obviously an outburst currency impact , you said in the first half . |
| 15 | Like Jim Larkin said in the First World War , ‘ Hang the Kaiser and all his relatives ’ , ' he said . |
| 16 | ‘ There are times , ’ he said in the first letter , ‘ that I wish myself not a prince , but a simple fellow . |
| 17 | said in the first place ! |
| 18 | This is perhaps not surprising : their preference for home care at the first interview indicates that they have a stronger commitment to looking after the dementia sufferer than those who said in the first interview that they would prefer institutional care . |
| 19 | PC Dave Fishwick , of Darlington Police community liaison department , said in the last week thieves have stolen a spade , ladders , fork , lawnmower and mountain cycle from a car port in Westbrook Villas , Darlington . |
| 20 | As we said in the last chapter , the Church is well placed to give a positive message at this time , to speak of how mortality is understood and how it fits in with the Christian message of salvation . |
| 21 | However , as we said in the last chapter , it seems to be a condition for the strength and toughness of materials of this type that there should be planes of weakness parallel to the strongest direction . |
| 22 | As Sir John Harrington said in the sixteenth century : |
| 23 | He rode straight up to the gateway of the monastery , not daring to stop for second thoughts , and said to the first monk he saw , ‘ Can you read and write ? ’ |
| 24 | " Now it is your turn for a wish , " Gabriel said to the second brother . |
| 25 | " All this is for you , " Gabriel said to the second brother . |
| 26 | Go on with your maps for a minute she said to the second form who were glancing at one another in astonishment as they heard the noise from the first form room . |
| 27 | John Howell , for Anthony Hazell , the district auditor , said on the second day of a hearing into the legality of the council 's £6bn deals on the market : ‘ The council sold 49 gilt options on the mistaken belief that it was reducing its exposure . |
| 28 | As I said on the second reading , I do believe that some areas will need to have larger authorities because of their size , or indeed their particular problems , geographical and otherwise . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's only for a time , ’ Fred said on the last night of the tour . |
| 30 | ‘ You have done well , Wilson , ’ she said on the last day in Siena . |