Example sentences of "he said [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ M-Maddy 's perfectly j-justified , ’ he said with his intermittent stutter . |
| 2 | ‘ Do not follow me , Huy , ’ he said with his old authority . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course , ’ he said on their third pint , ‘ the Wimbledon Poisoner used to use the back bar . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There is no argument for the reduction of Scots MPs , ’ he said at his final press conference in London . |
| 5 | ‘ Tell me more about your country , ’ he said to me one day . |
| 6 | ‘ What are we going to do , Toby ? ’ he said to me one day . |
| 7 | Because erm Derek was looking for a supervisor and he said to me one day in a moment of desperation he said who can I make up ? |
| 8 | he said to me one day , and I do n't remember the day he said the best thing would be for her to go on casual , then she can keep her thingy thingy . |
| 9 | And he sa and he said to me one day , are you fucking deaf ! |
| 10 | The last thing he said to me last night : I still want that money . |
| 11 | He said to me last night he said |
| 12 | last night , yesterday he had one and he said can I have another cream egg , so I said alright , cos there was a box of six , which means he 's had two out the six , he said to me this morning , got any more cream eggs so I said not for you , you 've got one for Martin , so I said yes , I 'll have his then |
| 13 | lesson he said to me just look at Christmas in that house ! |
| 14 | ‘ They 'll all be gone soon , ’ he said to their humorous questioning . |
| 15 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 16 | ‘ They might well send a priest to you , ’ he said to his own image , and reached for the clean shirt Langholme had laid ready for him . |
| 17 | ‘ Tell Bella that Sam 's all right , ’ he said to his old friend , in the old friendly tone , because there was no other to be found . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to offer a programme that 's going to create half a million or more jobs in the short run , that is highly progressive , that is very well balanced , that is faithful to the great middle class of this country and good for the things that we care about , jobs and health care , ’ he said of his economic plan . |
| 19 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 20 | ‘ I wish I could stay out there until dark , ’ he said after his first round . |
| 21 | ‘ I am Tick , the deformed coachman , ’ he said in his First Witch voice ( ‘ Macabre in the extreme' — Plays and Players ) . |
| 22 | As he said in his first novel , answering one of his early girlfriend 's naive questions , ‘ What was it like to have no father ? ’ he laconically answered , ‘ It made you more grown-up . |
| 23 | ‘ Meredith , I 'm crazy about you , ’ he said in his golden honey voice , a wayward lock of hair falling over his forehead . |
| 24 | " For Mr Pascoe , " he said in his nasal voice . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , well , well , fancy seeing you here , ’ he said in his velvety voice . |
| 26 | ‘ Well we do here , ’ he said in his toughest voice . |
| 27 | ‘ What 's the big man 's name ? ’ he said in his lowest voice . |
| 28 | ‘ If you take a map of disadvantage and press it over a map of crime , there is too close a coincidence , ’ he said in his annual report last month . |
| 29 | ‘ How many guesses do you want ? ’ he said in his normal voice . |
| 30 | ‘ You can use the bathroom now , ’ he said in his normal tone . |