Example sentences of "[pron] said [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Called to see a friend , ’ I said with a dry mouth . |
| 2 | " Right , Mr Bailes , " I said with a twisted smile . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's an easy enough error to have made , ’ I said with a small smile . |
| 4 | " Ah well , " I said with a light laugh . |
| 5 | But , oh , Doctor , ’ I said with a happy smile . |
| 6 | Preferably the something , ’ I said with a hopeful smile . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's what I was hoping , ’ I said with a deliberate leer . |
| 8 | Er this is just one that I wanted some stuff and I said to a few people |
| 9 | I said about a million times . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll have to eat together , ’ I said in a doleful tone which I knew would upset my mother as much as the vision which my remark would conjure up . |
| 11 | I said in a loud whisper . |
| 12 | Outside Lisabeth 's door I said in a loud voice , as if talking to someone : ‘ That 's the trouble , you just ca n't get the staff these days … ’ |
| 13 | I said in a quick voice . |
| 14 | ‘ Dawn , ’ I said in a hopeful voice . |
| 15 | 'That is carrying the democratic principle too far , ‘ I said in a careless laughing way . |
| 16 | " Right , mate , " I said in a menacing whisper . |
| 17 | As I said in a previous article , the Dinas Mawddwy Railway has been obliterated in some places much more than other lines I have walked . |
| 18 | If you take all of the money that has been spent since the policy was established in nineteen eighty eight , it still does not amount to twenty pence per child which as I said in a previous erm question , answer to a previous question , is bare would barely buy a pencil for each child . |
| 19 | ‘ I can handle Quigley , ’ I said in a steady voice . |
| 20 | ‘ A good few thousand , ’ I said after a brief pause for calculation . |
| 21 | And when someone said of a close relative , ‘ He 's a doorkeeper ’ , he was careful to make plain that his father or uncle did not need to work , but liked to get out of the house to chat with other old men and to draw a salary for it , rather than a pension . |
| 22 | She was asleep — there was a little island of light over her bed in the side-room of the empty ward — and someone said in a professional whisper , ‘ Do you think she 's ready for the next stage ? ’ |
| 23 | Meanwhile , heightened expectations of the imminent release of Nelson Mandela had been fuelled by remarks on Jan. 8 by his wife Winnie Mandela , who said after a three-hour visit to his prison bungalow that " I do n't think that we are talking about months any longer " . |
| 24 | ‘ Patella nimbosa , ’ she said of a plain limpet shell . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , fine , ’ she said with a loud gulp . |
| 26 | ‘ There you are ! ’ she said with a weary triumph . |
| 27 | ‘ Ben , you 're disgusting , ’ she said with a weary smile . |
| 28 | ‘ You think of everything , do n't you ? ’ she said with a delighted smile . |
| 29 | ‘ Sorry , Belle , ’ she said with a strange smile . |
| 30 | ‘ Early visitors , ’ she said with a keen look . |