Example sentences of "said [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I said I had come to the time I knew myself . |
| 2 | I said I wished to write to the gentleman . |
| 3 | I thought you said you 'd gone for the evening , Rosalind . ’ |
| 4 | Joseph , over-hearing , said she had returned to the Jonquil . |
| 5 | In the spring she said she wanted to go to the sea , to a warmer place . |
| 6 | ‘ She came home from Guides one day and said she wanted to try for the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award , ’ recalls Rosemarie . |
| 7 | Kate said they 'd gone to the army display and mentioned the rations that were taken on Antarctic expeditions . |
| 8 | Not one of the many East Berliners I spoke to at several crossing points said they meant to stay in the West . |
| 9 | Charity Organiser Margaret Cormack said they hoped to embark on the ‘ charity trail ’ again in the not too distant future . |
| 10 | The crew said they had survived on the upturned hull , sleeping huddled together in a compartment the size of a double bed . |
| 11 | Mr Perkins said they had walked into the surgery and poured bleach into the tank . |
| 12 | He said it had differed from the Foreign Office advice because it had subsequently been been scrutinised in ‘ greater detail ’ . |
| 13 | He said he had checked with the weather centre on neighbouring Tiree and told Mr Watts that the weather was ‘ marginal ’ . |
| 14 | Given leave to speak , he said he had gone into the church to help , and had simply obeyed such orders as were given to him , and he knew nothing of where the saint 's coffin might be at this moment . |
| 15 | Mohammed Mansha , 30 , said he had gone to the flat with his mother and brother Asam . |
| 16 | Those were the last words he said to me , apart from when he woke up and said he had to go to the toilet but you do n't count that , do you . ’ |
| 17 | The judge said he had asked for the case to be re-listed because he had anxiety about the sentence he imposed . |
| 18 | Mr MacKinlay said he had heard of the existence of a list of services , some of which appeared in The Observer newspaper yesterday . |
| 19 | Mr Athulathmudali 's bodyguard said he had shot at the assassin , but believed he had missed . |
| 20 | At the November hearing , the taxpayer said he had written to the building society in May and August and had telephoned them in September but still did not have the required details . |
| 21 | In announcing the large fines for conspiracy to steal , Judge Brooks said he had listened to the account given to the court of the information given to the police by both defendants about how they had committed the fraud and had put some of the proceeds in foreign bank accounts . |
| 22 | Mr Anderson said he had driven to the allotment after the woman suggested going somewhere quiet . |
| 23 | John Gibson , 28 , a farmer , said he had come upon the two men in his barn eight hours after the alleged bank raid . |
| 24 | Bernard particularly enjoyed the dinner when he served his aristocratic French guests with wine from some dusty old bottles he said he had found in the cellar . |
| 25 | In court he said he had worked with the renowned Well Woman clinic in Dublin in 1977 . |
| 26 | Mr Fallon said he had talked to the longest serving officials in his department who said the expansion rule had been in place as long as they had been there . |
| 27 | Lord Spens said he wished to continue with the trial as he was confident of undermining the prosecution and exposing Argyll 's tactics in the battle . |
| 28 | They both went to bed but Stephen was restless and said he wanted to sleep on the couch . |
| 29 | He went on to said he wanted to talk about the hunting debate , erm , it occurred to me to wonder why they could n't find anyone in Stonygate in favour of hunting , I mean perhaps there are n't any people in Stonygate in favour of hunting . |
| 30 | He said he wanted to stay in the game and would keep his options open . |