Example sentences of "he [verb] said to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as they analyse what he has said to different people , they begin to see that the question is not really pertinent . |
| 2 | It was uncanny what he 'd said to his Mum about Uncle Walter phoning up about his bad chest and now him being in hospital for real . |
| 3 | ‘ Poor cow , ’ he 'd said to her about Eleanor , ‘ she thinks she 's going to get something out of me . |
| 4 | He told her what he 'd said to the woman and how stupid he 'd felt . |
| 5 | Jed thought of that night at Mitch 's and what he 'd said to Sharon . |
| 6 | Recently he 'd said to his fellow Spidergobs , ‘ We ai n't scavvies at all , even if others call us so . |
| 7 | Do n't let them do it , boys , he 'd said to them . |
| 8 | He 'd said to Müller , ‘ You do it for money . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he 'd said to the first . |
| 10 | Lucien could n't remember what he 'd said to the prophet . |
| 11 | He 'd said to Mrs Abigail that her husband went homo-ing about the place . |
| 12 | He 'd said to himself as he walked away with it that all along the act had been a load of rubbish . |
| 13 | Despite everything he 'd said to the contrary , he might retain tender feelings for Doreen , and the fear of this caused jealousy to writhe and twist in Lucy 's mind until her face became pale and her hands shook . |
| 14 | ‘ No , ’ he 'd said to Carter . |
| 15 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 16 | What could he have said to them ? |
| 17 | What Gromyko had said to him and what he had said to Shevardnadze . |
| 18 | He had said to Mr Kuntar : ‘ You could have told me the truth from the very beginning . |
| 19 | ‘ Through these portals passed such illustrious men as Pitt , Walpole , Disraeli and Gladstone , to carve their names on the glorious history of England , ’ he had said to his young and captive audience . |
| 20 | He was pretty sure that Michel was gay , whatever he had said to Eleanor . |
| 21 | I was serving Mr Farraday morning coffee in the breakfast room when he had said to me : |
| 22 | ‘ You have to go there , ’ he had said to Henry , pressing his face forward , ‘ it 's so alive ! ’ |
| 23 | He told me that he had said to Ivy that he hoped between the three of us we might make head or tail of it , and she said , ‘ Well , we are three intelligent people , so I ca n't see why we should have any difficulty . ’ |
| 24 | It was probable that he had not , and best in any case not to go near ; soon he would miss her , want her back , and perhaps give his permission for the marriage despite all he had said to the contrary . |
| 25 | Adam lay in bed beside Anne , his mind repeating what he had said to Rufus on that wonderful day in June . |
| 26 | After a sex attack two years earlier he had said to the 40-year-old spinster that ‘ If you call the police I 'll kill you ’ . |
| 27 | " The critics call me cold and learned , " he had said to Virginia Woolf many years before : and the truth was , that he was neither . |
| 28 | ‘ You understand what Teacher Peng really is ? ’ he had said to Meg when they were alone one time . |
| 29 | He saw her turn and look at him , for a moment barely recognising him or understanding what he had said to her . |
| 30 | Henry came into Finch 's flat one day and refused the usual catechism about what he had said to the analyst . |