Example sentences of "said [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , the plans said no-one with a disposable income of more than £42 per week would get advice and assistance . |
| 2 | Mr Noyes will claim the MoD said nothing about the alleged landing because it wanted to save any embarrassment . |
| 3 | Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin . |
| 4 | The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor . |
| 5 | Police were searching for the missing bicycle , but the announcer said nothing about the missing hair . |
| 6 | Foley said nothing for a good few seconds . |
| 7 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 8 | He said nothing for a few seconds , and I sensed that I might have unsettled this policeman . |
| 9 | I said nothing for a few seconds . |
| 10 | Mr Brownlow said nothing for a few seconds , but simply stared at Rose . |
| 11 | Mike said nothing for a few minutes . |
| 12 | Stephen Leach , 35 , of no fixed abode , said nothing during the brief hearing before Liverpool magistrates . |
| 13 | He said nothing of the Soviet plan . |
| 14 | He said everyone in the front trenches was splashed with blood from the German trenches . |
| 15 | ‘ Too good for 'em , torture 'em first , ’ said someone with an unhealthy imagination . |
| 16 | I said somebody like a middle-aged woman would be best who 's got grown up children at work |
| 17 | Joe Logan , managing director of The Scotsman Publications Ltd , said none of the ten titles produced in Edinburgh , including the Evening News , Scotland on Sunday and five free newspapers , was threatened by the announcement . |
| 18 | Celia said something about a bone-marrow transplant , but that was weeks ago . |
| 19 | Back at the office you said something about a secret project . |
| 20 | ‘ I had this anonymous tip-off about a man answering your description , the caller said something about a missing member of the aristocracy , so I 've been keeping an eye on things . ’ |
| 21 | I said something about the political climate in the Argentine having changed since the Falklands War . |
| 22 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |
| 23 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 24 | He said something about an insolent pup . ’ |
| 25 | Her mother said something in a low voice , which she did n't catch . |
| 26 | The magician turned , stared at the cat and said something in a strange language . |
| 27 | — The hon. Member for Renfrew , West and Inverclyde said something from a sedentary position which I did not catch . |
| 28 | He said anyone in the infected zone was severely restricted on the movement of pigs regardless of whether their animals had the disease . |
| 29 | He said anyone in the infected zone was severely restricted on the movement of pigs regardless of whether their animals had the disease . |
| 30 | They none of them said anything for a long time . |