Example sentences of "said [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , travel line , and I says to her I said I 'm looking at this V F M bus timetable I says the five two , one I said it goes down ?
2 and er , I said what you mean Charlie , cor all dog 's mess all over the place , I said it is n't , I , I said have you ever been and he said no I , I said well there you are , I said if you have n't been I said you do n't know what it 's like , I said you 're talking about some old girl that lives on , in Little Sandhurst , who 's got a thing about dogs and I said kicking up a lot of fuss about it , but I said the women 's a dam liar
3 So I said you were getting on okay
4 I thought you said you were going to this match ! : - )
5 She said she 's working till six , and then going to aerobics
6 " My daughter said she was talking to some man in the street .
7 Yeah , she said she was thumbing through this publications catalogue
8 and he said we 're aiming for five thousand .
9 He said we 're talking about eighty or ninety
10 Colin Dodge for ‘ Sorry chaps , you 're too late , Crooksy and Blain did it last week in a Mobile Adventure open canoe , ’ Eddie Cornfield for ‘ When Fred said we were paddling in two inches of water I thought he was joking ! ’ ,
11 Tonight the police said they are checking for any similarities with previous attacks .
12 ‘ Darling , ’ Arabella had said , ‘ You know that PR firm I did some work for ? I was talking with their boss the other day , and he said they were looking for new blood … ’
13 FEDERAL officials yesterday made one arrest in their search for the bombers of the World Trade Centre in New York and authorities said they were looking for other suspects .
14 Police said they were looking for three young men in connection with the raid on Wednesday night .
15 He said they were reacting to public pressure , and that the majority of people did not support Sunday opening .
16 But a young couple with a seven-year-old daughter said they were leaving for good .
17 Last night spokesmen for both Scottish Enterprise and the Irish Development Agency , said they were keeping in close touch with Digital over the review of their operations .
18 Though it was too early to say how BP would respond to the opportunities created by the Budget , he said it was looking at several projects for extra investment in North Sea fields already in production .
19 The club 's community development officer , Mike Rigg , said he was looking for eight unemployed young men and women , aged 19 or over , to organise soccer schools as part of the 12-month Employment Training plan .
20 He said he was circling in that round of despair where you do n't care one iota what happens to you or anyone else .
21 ‘ She said he was laughing at that time and she just wanted to frighten him . ’
22 I wondered what he wanted , so I did it ; and in the interval of the rehearsal he came and said he was suffering from nervous shock because the moment I started he realized I was doing exactly the contrary of all the things he had taught the orchestra .
23 Cos he said he was coming between ten
24 He said he was coming for some gnocchi tonight .
25 He said he was going at 40 to 60 miles per hour .
26 ‘ He said he was going to trained to go on a crash team .
27 At a hurriedly called top-level Communist Party meeting , Mr Mladenov said he was responding to public pressure and requests from Communist Party members by removing Mr Zhivkov from the central committee .
28 I was gon na say you you s I thought you said 1950 and you said he was directing in 1961 , you know I
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