Example sentences of "said [pers pn] [was/were] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I was the only one to satisfy you ; you told me that once ; you said I was the only one who had ever made you — ’ |
| 2 | John Heminges said I was the best properties man in the city . |
| 3 | But the managers I played for all said I was the best professional . |
| 4 | He said I was the healthiest ghost he 'd ever seen ! |
| 5 | ‘ Well , actually , Sam said I was the same height as him now and he happened to have two . |
| 6 | I laughed and said I was the same when I was young . |
| 7 | Dougald said his was the only party firmly committed to improving schools throughout Britain . |
| 8 | Everybody said you were the best . |
| 9 | ‘ He always said you were the whole brains of the column . |
| 10 | ‘ She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls . |
| 11 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |
| 12 | He said they were the self-indulgent ramblings of a patches-on-the-elbow peasant , and who the hell did he think he was anyway ? |
| 13 | So some bright spark produced small tasty jam-filled doughnuts and said THEY were the missing holes . |
| 14 | I said they were the last pair of my nylons , memorial to my relationship with Blanche . |
| 15 | Mary said it was 20 June because that was the night before the solstice , the longest day , and Rufus said it was the 24th and he , Adam , said it was the 23rd because that was the eve of the 24th which was Midsummer day . |
| 16 | The storm broke as I drove past Woomera on the way back to Port Augusta and locals there said it was the heaviest rain for nearly 200 years . |
| 17 | Libby did not know the calls but George said it was the gone-away . |
| 18 | There was immediate uproar and they all said it was the other batsman who was out . |
| 19 | One child referred to in court as child A , finally admitted taking James Bulger to a railway embankment near Walton but he said it was the other boy child B who threw bricks at him and hit him with a stick and a metal bar . |
| 20 | The company said it was the first step towards a broadening of its geographic and product base which would reduce dependency on the UK and on shoes . |
| 21 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |
| 22 | Announcing the award of £162,150 , Mr Justice Otton said it was the first time such an action had been brought . |
| 23 | He said it was the first time he 'd done so but he was damned if he was going to be wheeled into a restaurant like a blasted mental patient out with his nurse . ’ |
| 24 | Wickham looked at Marshall who said it was the first he had heard of it either . |
| 25 | Mr Vaz said it was the first initiative of its kind for 16 years . |
| 26 | Mr Vaz said it was the first initiative of its kind for 16 years . |
| 27 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 28 | Philip Head , Chief Executive of the WDA , said it was the first time the agency had been asked to source Welsh suppliers for a company based in Germany and resulted directly from the WDA campaign to build business links with the motor regions of Europe . |
| 29 | , business director of Courtaulds Aerospace in Germany , said it was the first time in the world that a chromate-free coating had been given the go-ahead for civil aircraft manufacture . |
| 30 | Garden birds roused themselves bravely , far off a cockerel said it was the new day and buzzards with peeinging whistle arced over the slowly silhouetting mountains . |