Example sentences of "said [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met a gentleman once who said me legs were worth 'alf-a-crown a look . ’ |
| 2 | Since Delia said nothing Muriel began , ‘ How was David ? |
| 3 | But Val said them children them children have they manipulate her . |
| 4 | Well I said I sort of trundle down the stairs and have me breakfast |
| 5 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 6 | And er , she said I didnae worry you and er he turned round and just leave it there , so I think it he 's coming to get it Saturday . |
| 7 | And then you have to explain it to the person opposite you , or a long distance phone call , and say how you , , and this , because there was a colour done what I 've said , he said my colour 's completely different , and you 've propose all those colour bits , but |
| 8 | ‘ This must be the bottoms , ’ said my friend on our way to and from . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , ’ said my friend , ‘ all Paris knows that she 's in love with Duke Michael of Strelsau . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , ’ said my friend . |
| 11 | ‘ Hartmut Kopsch has been on the phone , ’ said my wife Annie , ‘ about a job in Cranham . |
| 12 | I said my wife has been giving me two and three bits every day thinking you 're having one of them . |
| 13 | I said my secret . |
| 14 | Having an anxious late lunch , said my innards . |
| 15 | ‘ They 've got the docks ’ said my London born friend Miss Robin . |
| 16 | Said my naughtiness he 'd cure , |
| 17 | I said my vows a bit too loud and they seemed to echo round the light oak panelling of the room ; Gill seemed to overcompensate and whispered hers so that the registrar and I could only just hear . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ said my master one day . |
| 19 | At the sight of him I would smell the dust of the confessional and remember the mixture of boredom , shame and relief as I said my penances . |
| 20 | ‘ He said my hair had been badly cut , ’ says Susan . |
| 21 | He said my love all right . |
| 22 | ‘ I think you could get a job as a stewardess on that airline , Mother , ’ said my daughter on return from our holiday . |
| 23 | Cheer up , said my Cid ; … this is a glorious day . |
| 24 | Thus great with child to speak , and helpless in my throes , Biting my truant pen , beating myself for spite , ‘ Fool ’ , said my muse to me ; ‘ look in thy heart , and write . ’ |
| 25 | Fool ’ , said my muse to me ; ‘ look in thy heart , and write ’ . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I , ’ said my sister-in-law , who never , I am sure , means to be offensive , ‘ simply can not stand being idle . |
| 27 | I said my share 'll be about twenty five grand roughly so he 's quite happy with that , yeah . |
| 28 | On my return she said my man had not woken and the S.S.O. had been in . |
| 29 | ‘ You said my work is the centre of my life . |
| 30 | ‘ So you were right when you said my grandmother had n't met Elaine Webb . ’ |