Example sentences of "said [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina disliked her nasal drawl , and said for the final time , ‘ Well , nice to have met you both . |
| 2 | No you said for the new office . |
| 3 | IBM Corp reveals in the proxy statement for the annual meeting that total pay and benefits for chairman and chief executive John Akers fell 17% in 1992 to $1.3m — Akers ' variable incentive payout , which is based on operating results , was $375,000 , a decline of 42% on 1991 , reflecting both IBM 's performance against targets and relative performance from year to year ; IBM said for the past two years , Akers ' annual pay declined over $1.3m , a fall of 50% ; it proposes to elect John Akers to the board after quits the top job . |
| 4 | ‘ Letty , ’ she said as the young girl bobbed in the doorway , ‘ ask Mrs Beynon to come in please . ’ |
| 5 | I begin by echoing what the hon. Member for Leeds , Central ( Mr. Fatchett ) said about the interim advisory body . |
| 6 | I rather suspect that the , I even said about the strong colour of the net , I suspect , that when |
| 7 | There 's been very little said about the actual content of the Childrens Act and I think it actually gets all Party 's support , which is , which is excellent . |
| 8 | But I 'd like to comment on what erm also John said about the new duties in the social services relative to the Children 's Bill and care in the community . |
| 9 | For example , each side said about the other side : |
| 10 | Did you hear what I said about the tall fair man , dear ? " |
| 11 | Jennings was right , and bright , to highlight one thing I said about the artistic choices behind the show . |
| 12 | And I can just remember what John Major said about the local authorities who 'd er got into B C C I . |
| 13 | I endorse what my hon. Friend said about the excellent efforts of the Glasgow Evening Times in drawing the matter to our attention . |
| 14 | All these groups can think that Mr Clinton is their man because of what he said during the mesmerising presidential campaign of 1992 . |
| 15 | ‘ I said after the European Championships I would be looking for a much more settled squad , ’ said Taylor . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been five years since I won , ’ Levi said after the round , ‘ five years of struggling . |
| 17 | Mr Garbutt said after the other two devices were found that police were satisfied the four were linked . |
| 18 | Institute of Directors chief Peter Morgan said after the recent turmoil it would be ‘ folly ’ to commit Europe to closer monetary and political union . |
| 19 | Hazlitt said of the Lyrical Ballads — ‘ Fools have laughed at , wise men scarcely understand them ’ . |
| 20 | As McFarlane so aptly and untruthfully said of the Saudi contribution , ‘ the concrete character of that is beyond my ken . ’ |
| 21 | Hankin said of the young midfielder , who can also play in defence : ‘ It is a big opportunity for the lad in front of a crowd of 13,000 or 14,000 . |
| 22 | There is no real reason to believe that the civil-military mission which the US sent to Vietnam would , in any event , have come to substantially different conclusions but the fact remains that their report was made under the impact of the Korean War and as one of its leaders said of the other his thoughts seemed largely to be with ‘ his ’ division in Korea . |
| 23 | Mr Jan Sekera , director of Prague 's Stredoceska Galerie , one of the city 's leading contemporary galleries , said of the new tax law , ‘ I 'm afraid that there will be no great movement as the relief is limited to only two per cent . |
| 24 | James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " . |
| 25 | ‘ I think she is going to be a real danger this year , ’ she said of the talented Russian . |
| 26 | It is , as Marx said of the mid-nineteenth-century French bureaucracy , ‘ well-gallooned and well-fed ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ The service was lousy , ’ he said of the private resupply , ‘ but I did n't ask who was providing it … |
| 28 | Dr Marie Stopes , the English doctor who is famous for her work in the 1920s on marital relations said of the Jewish marital laws of Taharat HaMishpachah : |
| 29 | Suter chairman David Abell said of the Chemoxy operation : ‘ The skills of its management and flexibility in adapting to difficult market circumstances have enabled it to seize opportunities . ’ |
| 30 | He said of the Nicaraguan literacy campaign : ‘ literacy only has meaning in a society undergoing revolutionary change ’ . |