Example sentences of "said [pers pn] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My children said it is the best learning game they have played , and I agree with them even though I still land in the water in level two . |
| 32 | I come back to Stuart and I said it is the second of November is n't it ? |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Libby did not know the calls but George said it was the gone-away . |
| 36 | There was immediate uproar and they all said it was the other batsman who was out . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 ) . |
| 40 | Announcing the award of £162,150 , Mr Justice Otton said it was the first time such an action had been brought . |
| 41 | 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 . ’ |
| 42 | Wickham looked at Marshall who said it was the first he had heard of it either . |
| 43 | Mr Vaz said it was the first initiative of its kind for 16 years . |
| 44 | Mr Vaz said it was the first initiative of its kind for 16 years . |
| 45 | ‘ 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | , 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Duncan said it was the best that he had ever seen . |
| 50 | Both Bryan Robson and Alex Ferguson said it was the best they had ever seen a Wimbledon side play — it makes a change to get credit when it 's due . ’ |
| 51 | William said it was the best political occasion he could remember since he had heard Aneurin Bevan speak in South Wales during the war . |
| 52 | He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’ |
| 53 | She said it was the best one she 'd ever done . |
| 54 | Richard Zanuck , vice-president of Twentieth Century-Fox , said it was the best he had seen . ’ |
| 55 | He 'd got all the er information about it when he came and he said it was the best type of covering if you 've got dogs or cats . |
| 56 | A GP once said it was the nearest he ever got to brain surgery . |
| 57 | Another , a veteran who 's been sorting out homesick Latins for years , said it was the greatest treat , once in a while , to get them to cook something just-a like-a Mama used to make . |
| 58 | Manby said it was the primary responsibility of the SSD and police to investigate fully such allegations . |
| 59 | He said it was the crucial first step in the process of removing the scars from the Lanarkshire landscape . |
| 60 | People said it was the finest playhouse in England . |