Example sentences of "said [conj] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our lecturer , who had spent months translating hieroglyphics there , said that entering the great , dim temple was for her , even now , like swimming into a warm patch of sea . |
| 2 | Anton Chekhov said that reading a short story ‘ feels rather like swallowing a glass of vodka ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Lamont said that following a detailed consultation exercise , he now proposed to offer these people — which included four million self-employed , the option of self-assessment . |
| 4 | Director of architecture , planning and estates Philip Eyton-Jones said that required an annual maintenance budget of more than £11mfar more than Clwyd has been allocating . |
| 5 | The Lord Lieutenant responded with his personal congratulations to all concerned and said that making a double presentation was a first for him too . |
| 6 | Has my right hon. Friend noticed the remarks of Sir Brian Corby , the president of the CBI , who said that to sign the social charter would be an act of remarkable lunacy ? |
| 7 | They said that denying the sexual urge was nothing compared to dealing with the male and female cross-currents that sweep through a marriage . |
| 8 | And if you want our partnership to last though this flight to Fraxilly , you 'd better do what you said and put the whole Gharr episode out of your mind . ’ |
| 9 | I sha n't be sorry to get home to Blackstone Rd , it worries me to think of the damp and the dirt , I hope you did what I said and aired all the rooms and linen like I said and got a good cleaning woman in like I said the same as with you , I hope . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , ’ Alexander said and cast a regretful glance out of the window . |
| 11 | Dr Howells and Dr Unsworth said when asked the inevitable MPs ' question about the price , that for £500 million spent between now and the end of the century we could reduce toxic emissions , by half , at the cost of increasing the price of electricity by 15 per cent . |
| 12 | As I said when answering the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) I have written individually to the chairmen of the 100 largest companies urging them to pay close attention to settling their debts on time . |