Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] said to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever it was her mind had said to her , she answered with , Well , it 's better than thousands of others in the town , and many a one would be glad of it . |
| 2 | He explained that the Bursar had said to him : |
| 3 | So with our legs and bottoms already aching from the lack of space and the hard seats , we read about the party someone had given in Christ Church , or how well so-and-so was doing at the Ministry of Information , or what little Nicolette had said to her grandmother . |
| 4 | ( I was glad at this time to remember that a woman in our own suburb had said to her once , ‘ I think you are the most attractive girl in the village ! ’ ) |
| 5 | Remembering things G.P. has said to me , and other people . |
| 6 | Even with Palottino he had been discreet , not mentioning what the kidnapper had said to him . |
| 7 | What on earth would the Colonel have said to the waiter at a world famous hotel , who the other day brought a bottle of Chambertin to the table in a bucket of ice ? |
| 8 | She tried to count to ten , and tried even harder to remember what that astrologer had said to her , but had that astrologer really known what she was talking about anyway ? |
| 9 | Once again I had the feeling that what my father had said to me in the garden could all be some horrible trick . |
| 10 | She had not shared anything about what the Lord had said to her back home , so she feels this to be a confirmation about the work the Lord wants her to do . |
| 11 | The government has said to the European Community that , of the 7.7-percentage-points improvement it hopes to make in the total public-sector deficit between 1992 and 1996 — from 9.6% of GDP to 1.9% — more than half , 4.1 percentage points , is to come from extra taxes . |
| 12 | An Archbishop in the hierarchy has said to me recently oh I feel the pain but Rome does not permit it . |
| 13 | As he and Hasan and Maisie started out down Wimbledon Park Road , he remembered something the headmaster had said to him , quite soon after he had started teaching the reception class . |
| 14 | The doctor has said to me that since she came I 'm changed completely . |
| 15 | Remembered the first thing Vern had said to me , sitting on that bench staring at the Clifton suspension bridge : ‘ Tame . |
| 16 | ‘ If a doctor had said to me : ‘ Chop off your right arm and your baby will be all right , ’ I would have done it , ’ she says . |
| 17 | With the growth in pre-marital sexual experience which has taken place , it might be supposed that selection of a long-term partner on these lines would be easier ; but human beings still have a tendency to believe that everything will be all right in the end and a surprising number have said to me , " things did n't go too well before we married but I thought they 'd work out . " |
| 18 | Suppose that the patient has said to his doctor , ‘ I am an old man , I know that cancer will kill me fairly soon . |
| 19 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 20 | It was only much later that I remembered my speech had been more or less word for word something my dad had said to me once . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll not be treated as a damned security risk , ’ the Prime Minister had said to the Deputy Under Secretary . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ People who have sat through this trial have said to me what on earth is it all about ? ’ |
| 23 | Nellie 's last few words stayed in Fred 's mind and later , in the comfort of the cosy front room above the dining rooms , after Maisie had left , he was moved to speak to his young wife about what her mother had said to him . |
| 24 | The word stirred her , and she recalled what her mother had said to her the previous day : that Cork had been her home all her life , with no suffering and no want — a safe and secure home . |
| 25 | My mother had said to Lili one day that she thought I was marrying Syl because he was so much older than me and would take the place of my father . |
| 26 | Now , when Nutmeg was a very young kitten , his mother had said to him . |
| 27 | My younger son had said to me , going out of the door : ‘ Remember , Mum , if you let the Labour Party back in , you will ruin my education . ’ |