Example sentences of "[pers pn] said [Wh adv] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said where did you get it from ? |
| 2 | I said where did you get the tarmac from ? , been up London about , on his way to London by about half past four he said well there 's , there 's , three tarmac places , basically he people like that |
| 3 | Well when he , I said where do you get that from ? |
| 4 | I said why do you work full time ? |
| 5 | erm she 's got a family Margaret , she said she wo n't go there any more she I , I do n't know whether that er Jean does so Did n't she just cotton on quickly , she said do you know that , I said why do I want anybody wandering in my house and my kitchen , I said it 's a bit like it 's clean , why should I have somebody sort of , well I mean just because I 'm doing cooking , she said you would n't stop fancy one , you never know , she said well unless you want to stop at the , please do n't , you 'll let me still have your jam wo n't you ? |
| 6 | Oh I ca n't tell you that I would n't never discuss things like that , until I got about twenty five , you know neighbours or not , and I said why did they call him ? |
| 7 | Right so what you said I said how do you spell sock S O C K but what you said was S H O C K. |
| 8 | I said How do you mean ? |
| 9 | I said to the bloke I said how do you get out that junction ? |
| 10 | Well it 's too hard , I said how do you know it 's too hard ? |
| 11 | I said how did she do it , did she , did Jane ever do it ? |
| 12 | And she said how do you know Mrs she said to me . |
| 13 | I goes what ? , she said how did you loose it in there ? , |
| 14 | They said why do we get poor materials ? |
| 15 | He said said oh he did n't know what she mentioned it for he said when did she mention it ? |
| 16 | I give Jim that bit of cheese he said where do you find this ? |
| 17 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 18 | David the psalmist , he could see the wicked , and he said why do they prosper ? |
| 19 | And we had our hiccups and we had all sorts of you know difficult moments for all of us where we all had to face ourselves and You know I remember my little boy said , Oh Mum y what about my Christmas you know I was putting a lot of time into the the striker 's Christmas and he said how do you become a striker 's child ? |