Example sentences of "said [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the most pertinent thing he said for me . |
| 2 | Yeah cos Matt said for me to come in . |
| 3 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 4 | ‘ Some of the things said about me give the impression that I am quite mad . |
| 5 | If I had believed what they said about me , I would have crawled away and given up . |
| 6 | ‘ I read some of the things Jack said about me , and although it is n't exactly something I re-read every night , I suppose I must have been doing something right for him to make these kind comments . |
| 7 | ‘ Would you expect me to remain after what that woman said of me ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And so my father said before me . |
| 9 | As Richard Attenborough once said to me , ‘ If you have n't learnt to play to an audience that is present , how can you expect to play to one that is n't ? ’ |
| 10 | You see what I mean ? he said to me . |
| 11 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 12 | Then one day Malcolm said to me , what 's going on with this Nick bloke and the band ? |
| 13 | Terence Conran once said to me : ‘ the reason why you and I do things well is because we had our apprenticeship in restaurants , ’ and I actually think that 's a very valid point , because you 've got twenty planks to the one function of actually serving food . |
| 14 | ‘ You watch them tire , ’ he said to me , ‘ those youngsters ca n't pace themselves . |
| 15 | In fact he said to me ‘ You could be quite useful , you know , you could help me get through to her . ’ |
| 16 | The last thing he said to me on Wednesday , ’ Jack ’ ’ he said , ‘ I 'll get along to your rave-up on Friday even if I have to knock the guts out of her . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm one for the ready , Mr Five Per Cent , ’ he said to me in his amusing way . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Frankly , Tim , we cocked that one up , ’ an Antipodean politico said to me once . |
| 19 | The doctor said to me , ‘ Have n't you been told about these things ? ’ then sat and explained it all to me . |
| 20 | THIRTY-FIVE years later , as these thoughts of my encounters with men in uniform flashed through my mind , the colonel , who by this time I had succeeded in recognising as another former classmate , said to me : ‘ Come and have a coffee ! ’ |
| 21 | The midwife said to me , ‘ This child has been on this earth before ’ and I thought that was rather an odd thing to say , but the midwife seemed quite adamant . |
| 22 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 23 | David was absolutely marvellous , a tremendous show , and when it was over Dawson said to me , ‘ Ken , it 's a marvellous act but it 's too good — when can I book it ? ’ . |
| 24 | So Angela did n't want to get involved — she did n't need the capital , after all — and she said to me she might do it in a year or so when Miss Huntley had calmed down . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ She said to me that the partners in the firm couldna decide what to give the lass for her wedding and had asked her , as wife of the senior partner , to have a wee word . |
| 26 | One Special Branch man said to me : ‘ There is only one other minister who has two police guards and that is Mr Tebbit — but we 're armed and they 're not . ’ |
| 27 | At the outset of my investigation one of my civil servants said to me : ‘ My test of the review is whether you do anything about the Death Grant . ’ |
| 28 | One person said to me a year or two ago : ‘ I 'm scared of dying . |
| 29 | I well remember the words of an old foreman who said to me , Son , even if you have the talent and ability to take you to the top , there is still no guarantee that you will ever get there , or even half way . |
| 30 | That weekend is also memorable for something Dana said to me in the train on the way back to Salamanca : ‘ I knew you were gay as soon as I saw you that morning in the galleria . ’ |