Example sentences of "had said to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If David had ever learned of the things Phipps had said to her , he would probably … |
| 2 | ‘ I was standing by the graveside and one of the Kavanagh sisters had said to Helen Moloney , Katherine 's sister : ‘ It 's perfectly all right to use Patrick 's grave . |
| 3 | What Gromyko had said to him and what he had said to Shevardnadze . |
| 4 | What Gromyko had said to him and what he had said to Shevardnadze . |
| 5 | A few months after that she had said to Rachel , |
| 6 | He had said to Mr Kuntar : ‘ You could have told me the truth from the very beginning . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry you 're disappointed , ’ she had said to Penelope , ‘ but after all there 's a lot of money , quite enough for both of us . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Through these portals passed such illustrious men as Pitt , Walpole , Disraeli and Gladstone , to carve their names on the glorious history of England , ’ he had said to his young and captive audience . |
| 9 | He was pretty sure that Michel was gay , whatever he had said to Eleanor . |
| 10 | Paralysed in its grip , she kept telling herself , over and over again , that she must n't leave him to drown : whatever Bella had said to her , however much she herself hated him , there was no point in pretending to herself that she could abandon anyone , not even him , to die . |
| 11 | Nathan had recovered enough to tell Ari what Zambia had said to him and also something of the conversation they 'd had before . |
| 12 | ‘ People had said to me that I 'd have a lot of spare time on the film set — oh sure ! |
| 13 | At least Ferdinando now knew a great deal of English , whatever she had said to Pen to make him feel important . |
| 14 | My younger son had said to me , going out of the door : ‘ Remember , Mum , if you let the Labour Party back in , you will ruin my education . ’ |
| 15 | Carlie had said to the social worker in charge of her case . |
| 16 | That evening as they worked on the catapult , Endill told Mould about what Mr Fractor had said to him . |
| 17 | No matter what they had said to her at the hospital , it had been her fault she had died . |
| 18 | Ludens had not forgotten what Marcus had said to him about Irina . |
| 19 | She had said to herself , thinking of that absence , there 's my chance ! |
| 20 | I was serving Mr Farraday morning coffee in the breakfast room when he had said to me : |
| 21 | Peggy van Praagh told me that , even so early , de Valois had said to her ‘ I think he 'll make a choreographer ’ , but she was already trying out several other aspirants , so could not give him immediate chances . |
| 22 | ‘ How could you expect anyone to trust you with their conveyancing ? ’ she had said to him , only last week . |
| 23 | About how , as Elinor and Elinor 's mother stood by the flowers in the rain at Putney Vale Crematorium , someone had said to him , ‘ They 're taking it very well ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You have to go there , ’ he had said to Henry , pressing his face forward , ‘ it 's so alive ! ’ |
| 25 | That was what Mark Foo had said to me . |
| 26 | She remembered that Seb had said to Gloria that swimming was not ‘ their thing ’ , but Antony Royd was supposed to run the fastest mile in the county and Mark Fountains- Abbot cheatingly borrowed his mother 's eventer for the cross-country and just , according to Gloria , sat there . |
| 27 | This morning , too , she had said to her father , ‘ I want this afternoon off ; I want to do some shopping . ’ |
| 28 | And all she could repeat was what she had said to the ambulance men . |
| 29 | So with our legs and bottoms already aching from the lack of space and the hard seats , we read about the party someone had given in Christ Church , or how well so-and-so was doing at the Ministry of Information , or what little Nicolette had said to her grandmother . |
| 30 | Drugs or even more surgery on yet another organ seemed intolerable , and yet I had said to my surgeon , ‘ I am in your hands . ’ |