"Yes," he said, "but in a very soft manner".
Dale, a quiet Canadian with bushy brown eyebrows and boyish good looks, had a naturally soft manner.
Speaking in a typically soft manner while he finished putting on his uniform, he continued: "I don't know what people expect.
Dernbach did pick up the wicket of Brendon McCullum but the soft manner of the dismissal will have been of scant consolation.
This soft manner – and the championing of traditional Anglican churches and service books, the National Gallery and grammar schools – has led to his work being seen as cosier and more conservative than is usually the case.
"There was the public need to support the regime, and then there was the private life in the kitchen, where we listened to Voice of America on the radio, and read forbidden books and had discussions in a very soft manner about all sorts of things.
It can be done in a hard or a soft manner.
Pietersen did get out in a soft manner, as did Nick Compton and Jonathan Trott before him, but the most disappointing dismissal of the day was Ian Bell's.
12. Mr Nel accused the athlete of saying, at first, that he whispered to his girlfriend when he heard a noise, but then changed his evidence to having spoken to her in a "soft manner".
Rather than sitting down with a lawyer, Tomorrow looks to simplify it down to a few buttons on a screen that helps people walk through the process in more of a soft manner without feeling overwhelmed by lawyers and the rest of the whole daunting process.
A whisper? Mr Nel highlights Mr Pistorius first saying that he "whispered" to Ms Steenkamp, but then changed it to spoke in a "soft manner" after, Mr Nel argues, he realised "whisper" would suggest that he was in close proximity to his girlfriend.
