Example sentences of "[pers pn] said [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yolanda was a spotty , bespectacled girl from Barcelona who spent her time translating every word I said into Spanish for the benefit of Garcia , a missing-link anthropoid from one of your immediate neighbours . |
| 2 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
| 3 | Oh , yes , you could , you certainly could , and as I said for long periods , parental an and offspring self interest will overlap . |
| 4 | ‘ I do hope so , ’ I said with polite enthusiasm . |
| 5 | ‘ And I enjoyed every minute of the trip , ’ I said with genuine enthusiasm . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't … move … the arrow , ’ I said with terrible urgency . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's wonderful , ’ I said with suitable sanctimony . |
| 8 | Philip implicitly dismisses the value of his own reflections on the ugliness of modern London with off-hand self-ironizing comments which imply that he too is a product of the intellectual dissipation he criticizes : ‘ Life , I said with startling originality as I stepped out of the bus in my mackintosh , is like that ’ ( 307 ) . |
| 9 | " All right , " I said with false breeziness as I left . |
| 10 | ‘ They 'll take anyone who is n't blind , ’ I said with dismissive untruth . |
| 11 | ‘ No , thanks , ’ I said with noble restraint . |
| 12 | Cos I said to young George , his son , I said he came when I was painting the sills and I says what do you do when it 's frosty when you start to work ? |
| 13 | Well er I I said to young er what 's his name ? |
| 14 | The bull withdrew a bit , and I said to Merry : |
| 15 | ‘ Smith , ’ I said to Spindly Ginger-Nob . |
| 16 | I said to old Tip , ‘ That 's Arnold over there , ’ and he made himself known to him . |
| 17 | I said to Old Fishy do you have kids and he said yes they 're the apple of my eye and we just hugged each other right there in front of everyone and ever since I 've been wondering what it means . |
| 18 | Those eighty six , why did you say yes when yo when I er ho how did you interpret what I said about worrying ? |
| 19 | Well that 's what I said about bloody V A T for ! |
| 20 | The hon. Lady may not have heard what I said about Scottish Homes . |
| 21 | ’ Just barely , ’ I said through gritted teeth as I struggled to my feet . |
| 22 | ‘ I think I know why I flunked my exams , ’ I said between huge mouthfuls . |
| 23 | ‘ Sod off , Toby , ’ I said in friendly fashion . |
| 24 | ‘ Not usually , ’ she said through pursed lips , wishing that she could somehow refute his image of her , ‘ and please , spare me another amateur lecture on my psyche . |
| 25 | ‘ I want to get out of this car , ’ she said through gritted teeth . |
| 26 | ‘ I did nothing , ’ she said through gritted teeth . |
| 27 | ‘ Bodies have no powers of reasoning , ’ she said through gritted teeth . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm prepared to hear you out , ’ she said through gritted teeth . |
| 29 | She did n't face Christina when she said through clenched teeth , ‘ I 've never expected or received any help from you anyway , Christina . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I have no idea , sir , ’ she said through clenched teeth . |