Example sentences of "said [prep] me [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Superintendent said to me one day , ‘ You do n't like this fellow very well . ’
2 My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’
3 ‘ Tell me more about your country , ’ he said to me one day .
4 ‘ What are we going to do , Toby ? ’ he said to me one day .
5 ‘ If you want to do something useful , ’ my mother said to me one day , ‘ you can help me propagate the cactuses . ’
6 Perhaps Mr Woolf had overheard that classic remark by a member of the public who said to me one day when we were negotiating the locks of the Caledonian canal in Venturous , " I did n't know we had Inland Revenue Cutters . "
7 Three a year which was very nice and er oh well whilst I was there , you see , erm I landed up in , in Peel because I was going on a and she said to me one day this Miss er what are you doing today ?
8 Because erm Derek was looking for a supervisor and he said to me one day in a moment of desperation he said who can I make up ?
9 But , said to me one day erm
10 he said to me one day , and I do n't remember the day he said the best thing would be for her to go on casual , then she can keep her thingy thingy .
11 And he sa and he said to me one day , are you fucking deaf !
12 That you did not mean what you said to me that day . ’
13 lesson he said to me just look at Christmas in that house !
14 said to me this morning .
15 last night , yesterday he had one and he said can I have another cream egg , so I said alright , cos there was a box of six , which means he 's had two out the six , he said to me this morning , got any more cream eggs so I said not for you , you 've got one for Martin , so I said yes , I 'll have his then
16 Never mind , she said to me this morning , she said I 've been to see a friend of yours , I said well who 's that ?
17 And I mean Dee said to me this morning cos she heard us one morning
18 Des said to me this morning did Bev get a phone call yesterday and I said no .
19 By the way , the last thing Carolyn said to me last night was that her party was open-house and we could go any time . ’
20 The last thing he said to me last night : I still want that money .
21 Mick said to me last night , he said to me you can never fit not used to it , but
22 Jim said to me last night is er Jimmy h is he not working ?
23 Arf said to me last night oh done all the chris , got everybody 's now then .
24 He said to me last night he said
25 If it 's alright then I 'll come home cos Mr said to me last night , oh you want to stay here the night .
26 and , and er , Alan , Alan actually said to me last year why I do n't see the importance of audio description anyway
27 It 's not the point , Jean put o said to me last week about the fucking .
28 Jackie said to me last week she said , well it 's the first of December .
29 Anyway erm what sh when I said to you when you , you said to me last thing oh yes that 's right , and he , anybody that father 's spoken to who has sort of had this Walkman on him , which has had umpteen sort of erm batteries and what have you tapes conversations , now she 'll be back again next Friday er to pick it up .
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