Example sentences of "said [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said I had one quiff from Jane that was erm because somebody had n't filled in the date by which it was agreed that the Client should get a reply and suggestion was that the procedure should be changed should be non compliance , erm and then the rest of this is based on a suggestion from Rita , and I have several here now , erm . |
| 2 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 3 | ‘ You said you had two jobs for me , sir . ’ |
| 4 | I said you put one lot of checks in here and I 'll put a lot of checks in the other . |
| 5 | Kev , I seem to remember you said you used this method for the Sunderland game and the Elland Road shop — is this address how you did it ? |
| 6 | Husband Don , 36 , said she dreaded six weeks with Daniel , eight , Daley , six , and David , five . |
| 7 | Antonia 's friend said she grew heady thinking about her future life with the 43-year-old Yuppie MP for Putney . |
| 8 | Sid Walcott , 49 , said she had shouting matches with her boyfriend , the children 's father . |
| 9 | He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean said she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen . |
| 10 | WPC Tracey Scanlon said she demanded forensic tests on suggestive notes left in her work tray . |
| 11 | Miss Lynda La Plante , author of Prime Suspect , said she wanted another vote to be held if it emerged the initial ballot was unfair . |
| 12 | She said she wanted more freedom for licensees to decide their opening hours , and believed children would learn about alcohol by going into pubs with their parents . |
| 13 | Who said we trusted each other in the first place ? |
| 14 | Mr Humphreys said they offered different versions of the number of beds in the hospitals ; the number of people working there ; the volume of traffic on Hollyhurst Road ; the number of parking spaces which were to be created by Bioplan and the shift patterns worked by staff at Bioplan . |
| 15 | Observers said they expected pro-reform supporters of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to win 70 per cent of the 270 seats . |
| 16 | Out of approximately one hundred prospective overseas students I spoke with , the majority said they had little intention of returning to China unless conditions improved in all aspects of life in the near future , but they were vague about what they would do overseas once their initial period of advanced education was complete . |
| 17 | Mr Lewis said they had great sympathy for the flood victims . |
| 18 | You said they had nice boys at Walthamstow . |
| 19 | Other employees said they had favourite sections of the roadshow , and everyone was enthusiastic about the Crystal Maze game that makes up part of the roadshow . |
| 20 | ‘ Then a stewardess said they had another passenger with stomach pains . |
| 21 | Among the most striking of its findings were that all those surveyed said they had more confidence in statements on biotechnology made by environment and consumers ' groups than in those issuing from government or industry . |
| 22 | In a statement the W.Midlands Regional Health Authority said they needed vacant possession for the property to be handed over to a private housebuilder for development . |
| 23 | A few days later he came back , said they gave tactile pleasure to his patients , a little on the lines of worry beads , and off he went with a boxful . ’ |
| 24 | Many retailing organizations said they gave fixed-term contracts to seasonal workers brought in to cope with the Christmas peak . |
| 25 | Among those offering concrete commitments were National Westminster Bank , which said it took environmental issues into account when considering loan requests [ see ED 58 ] , and the Austin Reed clothing company , which claims to encourage its suppliers to meet environmental standards . |
| 26 | Zenith also said it sold 500,000 shares of newly issued common to institutional investors for whom Crabbe Huson Co of Portland , Oregon serves as investment advisor . |
| 27 | McKinsey said it had several programmes in place to build the information technology capability of its consulting staff , and Information Consulting could accelerate the process . |
| 28 | Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased . |
| 29 | Senator Warren Barry called Mr Clinton 's plan on gays in the military a ‘ fags in the foxhole ’ proposal , and the chairman of the Fairfax County Republicans , Patrick Mullins , said it gave new meaning to the military warning ‘ watch your rear flank , ’ according to the Post . |
| 30 | Regional Magistrate Gerry Harty agreed that the firm had a good record and said it bought vast quantities for distribution to its various stores . |