Example sentences of "he said [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 2 | And you know what he said about the girls ? |
| 3 | Huh , I think I had such a good night , you know what you 've bloody well done he said you 've got up he said before you was ready he said , you knew you wanted to get on he said , and you 've got up he said with the intentions he said , you had them bloody cakes he said before you had breakfast , well I had to with her coming |
| 4 | ‘ Any soldier who has ever been in a war , ’ he said at the hearings , ‘ truly hopes he will never see one again . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Here 's my friend , ’ he said to the donkey-boys . |
| 6 | Good Buddies , ’ he said to the truckers , ‘ t … |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't bear it , ’ he said to the passengers , his eyes swivelling the length and breadth of the coach . |
| 8 | He makes her he makes her oh he said to the children you can go in the house with your dirty boots . |
| 9 | ‘ Leave us , ’ he said to the guards . |
| 10 | He said to the police , " This way . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's the youths , ’ he said to the Moslems who complained . |
| 12 | When Pope John xxiii visited prison he said to the inmates ‘ You could not come to see me so I have come to see you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll call back at noon , ’ he said to the buttons on her breast pockets , and she led me to a changing room full of paper nighties before turning to greet the next chicken on the conveyor belt and rewinding the tape to : ‘ Hi there , welcome to Surgicentre . |
| 14 | In the first place , in a style in which one of the fundamental problems had always been the reconciliation of solid form with the picture plane , the letters written or stencilled across the surface are the most conclusive way of emphasizing its two-dimensional character ; Braque has stressed this when he said of the letters : ‘ they were forms which could not be distorted because , being quite flat , the letters existed outside space and their presence in the painting , by contrast , enabled one to distinguish between objects situated in space and those outside it . ’ |
| 15 | An eyesore , ’ he said of the oaks fallen in the park . |
| 16 | He said of the managers : ‘ Their prime motive now is pounds and pence . ’ |
| 17 | And er he he always used to say of me , he say , Well you know er he was on the Executive , he said of the Trades Council . |
| 18 | Mr Lang angered opposition MPs when he said of the sackings : ‘ That is a matter for the trusts . ’ |
| 19 | And he said from the looks of it there must have been you know sort of dead , whatever it was , and there was a couple of fingers and a couple of toes , right ? |
| 20 | Firstly we still have plenty of midfielders even if Rocastle goes , ( which he wo n't , because he said in the papers yesterday that he is to stay and fight for a place ) . |
| 21 | If he comes to court , what happened at the police station does n't matter because he 'll then give direct evidence , not what he said in the police station but what actually happened on that night in the , in the estate . |