1.   Harry said with a rueful smile.

2.   Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts, large and in charge.

3.   Course Moira always has had a vivid imagination, you have to take what she says with a pinch of salt.

4.   George said with a warm smile.

5.   He could spin a yarn, and you had to take what he said with a pinch of salt.

6.   He was able to say with conviction that he had changed.

7.   How can anyone say with confidence that the recession is over?

8.   It is being said with some conviction that Labour inflicted a serious blow on itself with that Sheffield monster rally.