Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 ‘ 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 .
9 I said in a loud whisper .
10 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 … ’
11 I said in a quick voice .
12 ‘ Dawn , ’ I said in a hopeful voice .
13 'That is carrying the democratic principle too far , ‘ I said in a careless laughing way .
14 " Right , mate , " I said in a menacing whisper .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 ‘ I can handle Quigley , ’ I said in a steady voice .
18 ‘ A good few thousand , ’ I said after a brief pause for calculation .
19 ‘ Patella nimbosa , ’ she said of a plain limpet shell .
20 ‘ Oh , fine , ’ she said with a loud gulp .
21 ‘ There you are ! ’ she said with a weary triumph .
22 ‘ Ben , you 're disgusting , ’ she said with a weary smile .
23 ‘ You think of everything , do n't you ? ’ she said with a delighted smile .
24 ‘ Sorry , Belle , ’ she said with a strange smile .
25 ‘ Early visitors , ’ she said with a keen look .
26 ‘ Were you truly ? ’ she said with a flattering amount of alarm in her voice .
27 Thkarni she said with a straight face .
28 ‘ I know you find it embarrassing to show your feelings in front of anyone , especially Aubrey , ’ she said with a mischievous smile , ‘ but that 's just being terribly English .
29 ‘ Ding , ding , ’ she said with a mischievous grin .
30 ‘ The immediate future holds several hours of waitressing for me , ’ she said with a brittle brightness that did n't seem to fool him .
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