Example sentences of "said [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said for the money we spent here you could have had a percentage off . |
| 2 | Occasionally he translated what I said for the benefit of the other two . |
| 3 | When he spoke to her she could scarcely hear what he said for the thudding of her lovesick heart and the chattering of her teeth . |
| 4 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 5 | ‘ Rod Stewart could have a voice like that if he smoked more , ’ I said for the sake of something to say . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , what a shock you gave me , ’ she said as the door slowly opened . |
| 7 | ‘ The pressure only comes off and then to a degree , not totally when you qualify for the World Cup , ’ he said as the squad transferred to Detroit . |
| 8 | THE decline in racehorse ownership will be halted by the Chancellor 's decision to help the racing industry , the Marquess of Hartington , senior steward of the Jockey Club , said as the champagne corks popped at Cheltenham yesterday . |
| 9 | ‘ All right , I take back what I said about the schoolroom . |
| 10 | I 'd like to go back to what the lady across there said about the strip show |
| 11 | So I went back to Miss and said about the scanner appeal and she said that would be she thought that that would be the best idea . |
| 12 | So I went back to Miss White and said about the scanner appeal and she said that would be she thought that would be the best idea , not the . |
| 13 | Yeah , and we explained and said that I was pregnant at the time and we said about the policeman , oh no trouble ! |
| 14 | It is interesting , in the light of the above , to note what Preobrazhensky said about the law of value : ‘ The law of value is the law of spontaneous equilibrium of commodity-capitalist society . ’ |
| 15 | Chris Elworty , Marketing Development manager for Canon said about the award , ‘ It was a unanimous decision to commend the Guardian for both its use of original material and unusual treatment of pictures in the page . ’ |
| 16 | Well when Ken said about the headboard last week they were selling sheets on mini market I said pink ones and grey ones but I said not while they had the Christmas stuff in , it was before the Christmas stuff they must have taken them out you know I |
| 17 | At first the leaders just listened to what Karen and the others said about the factory . |
| 18 | said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen . |
| 19 | You said about the buyer 's guide that it 's , that you were a representative of Friends Provident , you 're an employee and it 's very very important to stress that because people like Abbey National were appointed representatives but we are employees and that 's one of the things , that 's one of the good things you can get out of the buyer 's guide . |
| 20 | I endorse what the right hon. Gentleman said about the progress that has been made so far . |
| 21 | I might just interpolate here , Mr Chairman , that the school report , Document C , confirms what the mother said about the girl never being in trouble when she was at school . |
| 22 | Unfortunately for the government , it became clear that Mosley meant what he said about the scandal of mass unemployment and the greater scandal of Labour 's failure to do anything about it . |
| 23 | What daddy said about the road . |
| 24 | Do you think they took any notice of what you said about the telephone-box ? ’ |
| 25 | No wonder you said about the credit |
| 26 | The first omission was regarded by some of his ministerial colleagues as an eccentricity bordering on the provocative , especially after the injunctions from Michael Heseltine and Sir Geoffrey Howe to take more seriously the balance of payments figures and what they said about the manufacturing base of the economy . |
| 27 | Both he and Mr Heseltine warned against making light of the huge trade deficit and what it said about the manufacturing base of the economy . |
| 28 | Yes and at the briefing , just tell us first of all what you said about the objective of the operation . |
| 29 | At the very most , it is an open issue , but , knowing the Minister as I do , I concur with what the hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Stephen ) said about the Bill being fundamentally a centralising measure . |
| 30 | Remember though what we said about the flow of funds through insurance companies . |