Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] say [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | three or four times I had to speak to him last night , and you never said a word , you just pretended or said you did n't hear |
| 2 | Lizzie grumbled and said she was getting thin and doing too much , but then Lizzie would have grumbled if she had done too little . |
| 3 | Graham then back-tracked and said it was China , rather than Russia , which worried him . |
| 4 | And when he sagged and said he 'd had enough of the place and it was not what he had thought it would be , she said life never was and that if he wanted to stay in Fleet Street he would be foolish to leave without a new job to go to . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , he joked and said he would take it to heaven with him . |
| 6 | He stopped and said he would take me back to the Hall . |
| 7 | However , Lord Justice Watkins disagreed and said he saw no difficulty in imposing upon the assessment officer the duty to discover what intention lay behind the reduction of capital . |
| 8 | Lord Justice Dillon disagreed and said he would have granted a declaration that the UK was in breach of its obligations under the Treaty of Rome and European law . |
| 9 | ‘ Supposing for instance someone came and said they were Mr Unwin , you would check that his name was on the list and let him in ? ’ |
| 10 | and erm and that 's what erm , the teacher came and said she 'd fallen out of erm one of the , er I think she said bogeys or something ? |
| 11 | And then somebody else came and said she was er I think |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He agreed and said he would train me so that I could take the necessary exams . |
| 14 | We were informed that the Prime Minister had set aside an hour for us , and she arrived on the dot , nicely accoutred and coiffeured and saying she was ready to go when we were . |
| 15 | The barman yawned and said he 'd be closing the bar soon . |
| 16 | Shirley giggled and said I was a woman who knew her own mind , was n't I , Jim ? |
| 17 | So I lied and said I detected nothing untoward in finding a bullet-riddled boat awash in the Bahamian seas . |
| 18 | And then , dismissing himself , he asked if she were well and happy , and she lied and said she was . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ A few years ago Graham Taylor , then at Aston Villa , rang and said I should join the old organisation . |
| 20 | Her representative rang and said she was n't coming on . |
| 21 | Finally , he swore and said she was a bad wife and if another woman of greater warmth came his way , no one could accuse him of adultery in taking her . |
| 22 | It would be even more wonderful if he called and said he was staying away another week . |
| 23 | She just went and said I 've got this you know , check up , cos she knew she was going to Christies for her final check up and , they 've whizzed her in . |
| 24 | I tried to get Dad to tell me where they 'd gone but he was tipsy and only laughed and said they 'd gone on their ‘ funnymoon ’ . |
| 25 | serious We laughed and said we had no |
| 26 | The driver of the first car that came by asked us for directions : we laughed and said we were flying , not driving ! |
| 27 | ‘ But the immigration officials and security men just laughed and said she was pretending because she did n't want to be sent back . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And when she noticed I had two other children with me she laughed and said she knew what a handful they could be . ’ |
| 29 | Robin laughed and said he 'd go along with me . |
| 30 | I laughed and said he might if he spoke English . |