Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [conj] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the morning , we suddenly woke up and said , ‘ Oh no , — we 're supposed to be getting married at 11 o'clock . |
| 2 | The person started to read their paper on Moses , and I thought she was doing a good job of it , this guy suddenly got up and said , I 'm Jewish , I 'm not listening to any more of this , and stormed out . |
| 3 | And erm he actually , he , he started off and , and was very nervous but the summing up of it was , was brilliant erm and I , I would n't put it across as well as what he did but the principle of it was that he , he suddenly turned round and said right I have now changed my job , right , you are now looking at the new managing director of Friends Provident , he says , and the first thing I am going to do is I 'm cutting all your wages to eighty five pounds a week , what are you going to do about it ? |
| 4 | She shot a swift glance at Paul in case he decided to amend this statement , but he merely smiled quirkily and said , ‘ Exactly ! ’ |
| 5 | Mr Hale would not comment directly but said in a statement read by his solicitor : ‘ I am pleased it is all over . |
| 6 | One day one of the girls who came from Birmingham ( she used to come down , work the week and go back up ) , she just got up and said , really unexpectedly , ‘ I 'm going back . ’ |
| 7 | Anyway , after about half an hour — the whole lesson — I just dried up and said something like , ‘ Well , that 's it . ’ |
| 8 | So I lent out some of his books , and they straight away came back and said , ‘ He 's not Irish , he 's Scottish . ’ |
| 9 | No the money I want to spend , I 've partly already written back and said , can I use this money as we do n't need it can I buy chairs , I was specific . |
| 10 | That waitress just came over and said that we were in love . ’ |
| 11 | Ag again with the , the recommendations I think you , you , you went on to say can I , can I go forward in , in getting the recommendations erm without actually explaining what you were doing , you just came back and said so I 'll go ahead and get the recommendations and come back and see you in two weeks ' time and like what recommendation ? |
| 12 | Well he , he did n't really say a lot , er they asked him a question and er he , he just turned round and said er we hope , we hope it 's er a peaceful solution , that er virtually saying he hoped it did n't come to war , and Christine turned round and said ‘ yes we want a peaceful solution ’ . |
| 13 | I mean some people were quite willing to answer it and they were quite willing to say what stereotypes they usually employ and others j er just clam up and said , oh I never judge people , and I thought yeah liar doing all the time ? biggest gossips in the office and she 's never got a good word to say about anyone , she 's always digging the dirt but when I presented her with it , I never try to judge people . |
| 14 | ‘ A steward standing some 40 yards away rushed over and said he saw me making an obscene gesture . |
| 15 | They agreed that he had a discretion under the statute whether or not to do so but said that he was not justified in refusing if the result was to frustrate the policy of the Act of Parliament . |
| 16 | But he will not go voluntarily and said : ‘ I have no intention of making way . |
| 17 | I just went through and said , " I 'm going out for some cigarettes , " and went out , and I 've never been back . |
| 18 | Well they just went back and said they could n't want something that much maybe she 's gone over her limit . |
| 19 | ‘ She said if you could spare an hour … she 'd just come back and said he was very low and asking for you . |
| 20 | She just glared back and said acidly , ‘ What about the interest ? ’ |
| 21 | Neil poor boy he had a driving lesson yesterday came home and said I do n't want to do any more ! |
| 22 | For a moment she w anted to say that her husband would run the order up to the farm in his van , but something else quickly stepped in and said no . |
| 23 | Actually , me and Joe were saying the other day , like ever erm who was it , someone said something about people being fat or whatever and someone 's gone , oh yeah , like Helena , you know jokingly and erm and me and Joe both turned round and said yeah but she 's not fat though is she , she 's like more you 're more wide are n't you ? |
| 24 | Erm then er I introduced somebody on the seventeenth for this teaching post , for the sewing club which Noel unofficially told me and Donald also rang up and said that we were going to get the money so I I 've already employed somebody , I have n't got the letter yet . |
| 25 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 26 | So why do you think Sir Nicholas and his wife have both come out and said something as ridiculous as this ? |
| 27 | But he sat and did n't look up and said , ‘ Hang on for a coach , ’ |
| 28 | He was n't put off and said that if I would please stay he would dance every dance with me . |
| 29 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 30 | He was about to pass out and said he thought an iron bar had been put in his back |