Example sentences of "said to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one vice-chancellor said to New Scientist this week , ‘ a government scientist does not stand to gain anything by backing a successful idea . |
| 2 | But we knew that nothing we said to each other in private would be laughed at in public . |
| 3 | Parents love each child , and it grieves them to witness the hitting , hurting and hateful things said to each other . |
| 4 | If they said , ‘ I shall tell the Headmaster of you ! ’ we said to each other , |
| 5 | The CVR , besides contributing to the fund of knowledge about the flight , has provided the investigators with an insight into the way the flight crew were thinking and interpreting the indications of the progress of the flight by means of the things they said to each other , and sometimes the things they did not say . |
| 6 | They said to each other only what was necessary . |
| 7 | ‘ If only we knew what was happening , ’ women said to each other as news came that Holland had been flooded and then that Rotterdam had been blitzed and the Dutch had surrendered . |
| 8 | ‘ A proper London ship , ’ we said to each other . |
| 9 | She rather wondered what Dersingham and Yaxlee said to each other when — if — they met . |
| 10 | Replying directly to a businesswoman 's plea during the debate for ‘ one more little miracle ’ to ease the impact of the new rate on firms , Mr Lawson said to muted applause : ‘ The answer is that there is no alternative , and the policy will work . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |
| 12 | ‘ We know from past experience where the other route takes us , ’ he said to loud applause . |
| 13 | Just because I am a woman they belittle me , ’ she said to loud cheers . |
| 14 | ‘ Many Australians … believe that we will be better able to succeed in the world with the unique and unambiguous identity which an Australian head of state , chosen by the Australian people , could provide , ’ the Prime Minister said to loud cheers from about 500 party members . |
| 15 | And er there r there are no real er gentry in Orkney you see , and you 'll always find that if anybody gets a a a Well as I said to one boy here , I said to him look here I said your old grandfather worked in that shop till his backside was hanging out his brigs . |
| 16 | In our group , we said to one member , ‘ Every time you say something , we find ourselves acting on it , so why do n't you contribute more ? ’ ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Well , Sir , ’ I said to one man , ‘ may I have your name , address and next of kin , please . ’ |
| 18 | " He usually asks me for my criticism , " she said to one interviewer . |
| 19 | I said to that bloke today well how , how long am I gon na be before I go to court , he said it could be two years away |
| 20 | That 's what I said to that Ann , be able to get something on that somebody says that they have n't said it and be able to play it back to them . |
| 21 | I said to that caravan I get upset ! |
| 22 | my Lord report , paragraphs seven twelve and two eleven , erm refer to the competition rules and indeed explicitly excepts that a curtailing of some competition in this area is in , in , in his view at least and the reports view , a good thing to protect solvency , protect policy holders and again we simply said to that V D S , fine , yes it goes to exemption , but it does n't get you outside the competition rules . |
| 23 | ‘ We need buckets of water , ’ she said to young Mario . |
| 24 | ‘ You can come and help me to carry some pictures , George dear , ’ she said to young Curdle , who was skipping about the playground . |
| 25 | Cos I said to young George , his son , I said he came when I was painting the sills and I says what do you do when it 's frosty when you start to work ? |
| 26 | ‘ Come with me — I want to show you something , ’ Charlie said to Wee Charlie . |
| 27 | And er I always remember the lawyer who was acting on behalf of the union er said to these blacklegs , How would it be possible for you to see it though your window who was throwing the bricks seeing that the windows are so black and filthy you ca n't see the curtains that 's hanging up from the outside ? |
| 28 | Yeah , that 's what I said to these chaps . |
| 29 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 30 | because , that , this is , the , I said to this kid the other day , he goes oh , like Ian was arguing with them when I went in |