Example sentences of "said [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Malcolm Gourlay , BRINDEX 's chairman , said most new fields would be too small to benefit and would not be developed because of the adverse impact of withdrawing PRT relief on the cost of exploration wells . |
| 2 | Mr Coghill , who runs his own research laboratory in Wales , said most other countries had much stricter recommended safety levels . |
| 3 | " Tell you what I 'll do , " he said goodnaturedly one evening in the presence of Dan Rowe , Peter Trewennick and Tom Jannaway , who were sitting with their tankards resting on their knees , " I 'll lay you a shilling mine 'll be a boy and your'n a girl . " |
| 4 | So I thought , in my wisdom I thought , there was easier way than that , wh at one bar and I had one rope come under the draw bar with a tow bar , so I said right one bit of rope , one bar , so all the docker got ta do now is take the bar out , take the rope off , that was alright and you could stow 'em on the , on the deck . |
| 5 | They also said less well-off consumers without cars are losing as superstores move out of town . |
| 6 | Governor Peter Leonard , who launched an inquiry yesterday , said only prompt action by staff prevented a violent free-for-all . |
| 7 | Liberal Democrat Rosamund Jordan said only Liberal Democrat policy could solve the town 's housing crisis . |
| 8 | Liberal Democrat Rosamund Jordan said only Liberal Democrat policy could solve the town 's housing crisis . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the health authority said only eight mothers were believed to be at risk of infection and not all of them had asked for an AIDS test . |
| 10 | The government 's decision to impose VAT at 8pc in 1994 and at the standard rate of 17pc 12 months later could reverse a trend which has seen customer disconnections fall by 70 pc in the past 12 months and Manweb said only six customers were disconnected for non payment in the past six months . |
| 11 | ‘ He said only last week he 'd no objection ! ’ |
| 12 | ( ‘ … As my dear brother said only last week , evenings spent with actresses … ’ ) |
| 13 | A police chief said only twenty inches of snow would stop crime rising in one of the world 's most violent cities . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've got light fingers , ’ Mrs Gooden said approvingly one Sunday as she watched Clare , with the tips of her fingers , mix flour and lard in the big yellow mixing bowl . |
| 15 | I said perhaps some time afterwards . |
| 16 | He said better that Rottweiler is n't it ? |
| 17 | ‘ It is odd that they said so many things to identify themselves within a few short sentences . ’ |
| 18 | And she said so many chairs are so deep that my legs are dangling , she said whereas this one , it 's so comfortable and I can get my feet on the floor . |
| 19 | Parish Council chairman Peter Foster yesterday said so many people were booking their plots the village was running out of burial space . |
| 20 | He said so this morning . |
| 21 | You said so this morning . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're behaving like a goddam husband , ’ she said sulkily one night . |
| 23 | We have as Mr said already this morning , we have no regional guidance . |
| 24 | Clinical director Paul Lawler , who heads the intensive care unit at South Cleveland Hospital , Middlesbrough , said desperately ill patients were being turned away because they could not get into the unit . |
| 25 | This insistence pushed the waverers such as Kukanjao towards the clutches of unashamed Serb nationalists like the acting Yugoslav defence minister , General Blagoje Adzoic , and the acting chief of staff , General Zivota Panic , who said baldly this week that the army will stay in Bosnia to prevent ‘ the genocide of any nations , especially the Serbs because they are the most threatened ’ . |
| 26 | Mrs Meikle said just two days ago Graham had been seen in a local pub . |
| 27 | She ate a biscuit and drank more cocoa , Mrs Blakey asked what kind of things , and she said just horrible things , things about people having secrets . |
| 28 | Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing . |
| 29 | The National Trust — new owner of Orford Ness ‘ island ’ — said yesterday that law breaking by people with guns and off-road vehicles had increased there since the Ministry of Defence relinquished control . |
| 30 | 1993 could hold several acquisitions for EDS Europe , as Jacques Tordjman , president of EDS-GFI , EDS 's French subsidiary , said yesterday that EDS-GFI intends to ‘ relaunch ’ its acquisitions activity in France this year . |