Example sentences of "said [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er when he got there Je , er er erm , Julian and I were loading about a ton of turf into my van and I was gon na take it to Caffer Cliss but he said for fifteen quid I 'll take that , I 'll take that away for you . |
| 2 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
| 3 | I never said for sure that 's where the stuff would arrive . ’ |
| 4 | Cos I 've still got a bit of a throat and it said for sore throats too if you want . |
| 5 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 6 | Oh , yes , you could , you certainly could , and as I said for long periods , parental an and offspring self interest will overlap . |
| 7 | Cos er San Sandra agreed in the end she said oh I said you can do it on your own , you can have the nine quid if you like yourself I said but I 'm not coming with you I said for three hours working for somebody who 's twenty five . |
| 8 | He said for any project |
| 9 | Well , because he said for obvious reasons , he said er I did n't want my name and address mentioned . |
| 10 | ‘ Great , ’ she said for some inexplicable reason . |
| 11 | His solicitor said for some reason he 'd been involved since last December in a campaign of total destruction of both himself and other people , but now there was some hope for the future . |
| 12 | The word ‘ garage ’ , for instance , used to sound more like ‘ g'rahge ’ , almost said as one syllable . |
| 13 | Michael 's 61-year-old widowed mother , Iris , said as another daughter , Heather , comforted her : ‘ I 'm afraid I might never see him again . ’ |
| 14 | Well that 's what I said about bloody V A T for ! |
| 15 | T : Yeah , but that 's what you said about that REM pile of crap . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps the less said about that , the better , Mr Brocklehurst , ’ said Mrs Reed , shaking her head . |
| 17 | The second point is is to echo the er the words that Matt just said about that lady who was converted . |
| 18 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will spend the weekend reading the document and will see exactly what we said about that . |
| 19 | Yeah I think cos he said about that in the lecture about the |
| 20 | Did Tony all of this what he said about that |
| 21 | That 's why you said about that mod just now it 's er it 's all green to me ! |
| 22 | that was the laugh with David he said erm , he said about that and that cos when he had this , they had this big farewell thing did n't they at the bowling alley and I never went and I was the only one and erm they come round , they come round and I thought yeah I really |
| 23 | That woman I said about that had the |
| 24 | And you said about that . |
| 25 | Remem remember what daddy said about that |
| 26 | okay , put your speech marks round it , I take it all back then I said about that , it just did n't look right . |
| 27 | A spokesman said about one-third of the sewage load from the town is due to be diverted some time this year to a new treatment plant . |
| 28 | The things they said about each other were not much better . ’ |
| 29 | You said about traditional |
| 30 | The reason I shall vote against the motion and for the amendment could n't have been put more succinctly than it was by Mr , I think Mr made the most pertinent remark that has been made in the debate today , when in opposition to what Mr said about individual freedom he said this is a matter of personal conscience . |