They pay me,' he says, before qualifying his statement: 'I am doing it for the love of my art.

Lest he appeared too nasty, the Scot qualified his statement.

Though the man qualified his statement, Corran felt he was being polite instead of indecisive.

Confronted by uncertain expressions, he nodded and qualified his statement.

To the answering silence she qualified her statement with, "She has very delicate legs."

They both waited for Dughall to qualify his statement, to give them some hope, to offer anything beyond that flat statement of their coming death.

"Only just a drop to settle the dust after we pulled in," he qualified his original statement.

Good point, but the original poster didn't qualify his statement.

Esther took another swallow, watching him as he shrugged to qualify his statement.

Except that I qualified my statement by saying he ndght be.