Example sentences of "[pers pn] said [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I said to him this morning I said what sick joke 's this ?
2 if I said his upper lip trembled like the lip
3 I said you dizzy swine !
4 And I knew I know this bloke eh , when he was a sergeant I think , anyway he was an officer , and eh , said we go to Sheppeards , I said you silly devil I ca n't get into Sheppeards Hotel I 'm a signal man I had to laugh he said , shame , he said cor , you 're about my size , get stuck into one of my uniforms we had a couple of weekends at Sheppeards Hotel , we had a great time .
5 I said it three times , ’ she said .
6 And er there r there are no real er gentry in Orkney you see , and you 'll always find that if anybody gets a a a Well as I said to one boy here , I said to him look here I said your old grandfather worked in that shop till his backside was hanging out his brigs .
7 I said your fucking fault .
8 That morning my wife and I said our usual goodbyes .
9 In the first days she said her one hope was that her children , isolated though they were , could feel ‘ held ’ in the same safe way .
10 Yeah she said her next door neighbour
11 Aminah Husain Sumpton , a freelance trainer and guardian ad litem , welcomed the Children Act but she said its full potential had not been achieved .
12 Oh she said I 'm ever so sorry I was miles away , I said yeah we 've just said that , I said you never even heard us , so I said what you , you ca n't understand why you pay too much tax , she said no I know why I pay too much tax she said but more she said I used to be in business she said and I 'm on basic rate of tax , so I said yeah I 've had some of that , so she said what basic rate of tax , I said yeah where I 've come so , it 's a funny thing she said , I was saying to Carol the other day , she said erm , she said what a difference them blokes you work with , so I said yeah , I said I 'm always saying that about these so she said oh she said er
13 A MURDER trial was adjourned last night after one of the accused broke down in the witness box as she said her fellow defendant had suggested using shovels to bury a woman alive .
14 She said her other sons Philip , five and Liam , three , also suffered health problems .
15 She said her only hope of having the boys returned was if her husband had difficulty in looking after them .
16 Perhaps she knew he wanted a son , perhaps she said her first marriage broke up because her first husband found out he was n't the father . ’
17 She said her own worries had been put into perspective by a visit shortly before his death of Lord Cheshire .
18 The hand had the warmth of personal feeling , whereas the theatrical sigh with which she said her last words was nothing but an actressy trick from a bad radio play .
19 and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult !
20 I saw the bits coming off her fag She said you stupid bastard well he was like this were n't he ?
21 She said you dirty animal fucking git !
22 the way she said it that day was , they 're old dogs , they do n't need the exercise and they do n't bark , that is the impression , impression I got
23 You said something last week about ‘ gambolling in the countryside ’ .
24 You said they each cost a few hundred pounds .
25 ‘ As you said yourself last night , people often do silly things .
26 You said it three times ? ’
27 Cos we said them young kids that had the trumpets for that thing , I bet she had a go at them and all not to knacker them .
28 The following morning , under the guidance of Margo , Nigel was sprinkled onto the compost heap and we said our final goodbyes .
29 We said our good nights .
30 This time when they said their good byes they arranged to meet the following morning and so things continued .
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