Example sentences of "[pers pn] said [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said to Kay it 's Terry that does all , he gets the money in , he pays all the bills , Muriel brings him the bills , I said he does all that apart from the fact I said he spent the whole day yesterday , the whole morning yesterday here clearing this , oh she said I did as well , erm you know help , I said what you , but as well as clearing |
| 2 | We have n't been trying hard to persuade the Garrimperos to adopt different technologies , more modern technologies that would avoid the contamination of the mercury , but as I said I believe the only way of reaching this goal is if we can organize the Garrimperos to have er a kind of er institutionalized way of exploiting gold , not the sort of gold rush i that is being on and on On and off in Brazil for two centuries right now . |
| 3 | Because I said I liked the immortal Bix Biederbecke he obviously thought I was avant garde and beyond redemption . |
| 4 | I said you know the minor er faults and discrepancies , we er tidy up quite amicably with the area people normally . |
| 5 | You know they must be you know and a certain amount of guilt maybe that they that they did n't support the miners or you know it was something that was happening far away and maybe y like I said you gave the odd tin of beans you know but er |
| 6 | She said she saw the two defendants tormenting an elderly woman by prodding her from behind . |
| 7 | And she said erm where they have their big discos in the universities er you know , about two thousand five hundred of them come round of course they 've got fire alarm systems there , then she said you get the underground so called Mafia , whatever you like to call them she said , they are chaps she said in their thirties , and forties , arrive in shiny big white and red Porsches this that and the other and deliberately , cos they 're club owners |
| 8 | The insolent way she said it made the other girls gasp with astonishment . |
| 9 | Yeah , you said , that 's Mrs 's boy , but she said I thought the two big ones wherever |
| 10 | They said it meant the latter ; they said they were ‘ prepared to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 11 | He said they revealed the true length of the queues . |
| 12 | No she said , I 'll get you ! and he said I have the mobile phone number . |
| 13 | But if you 've got a decent Technics he said you want the best integrated |
| 14 | I blurted out to Dominic how I had been feeling and to my astonishment and relief he said he felt the same — trapped and resentful . ’ |
| 15 | He said he had the same ability as Wino but pointed out that he ( Gray ) was injured at 16 and never fully recovered , so his potential would have been even greater than it turned out . |
| 16 | I was walking that way with Ernest on Saturday and he said he thought the bottom hedge belonged to anyway . |