Example sentences of "said [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | I said I had three kids and I could |
| 3 | And she said ooh she said I got two grandads . |
| 4 | She said I got fat fingers that 'll do . |
| 5 | When I was arrested in August , one charge against me was that I said I wanted free elections , ’ said Mr Carnogursky , aged 45 . |
| 6 | and he I said to him , I said you got new neighbours ? |
| 7 | I 've gone down hill since then , but she said you know these folks are hard when you 've been out of work for a long while , you 've got ta just get back up and fight again , I said , she said and I know how hard that is , but she said you know , if you can get it going and fit and get in , so |
| 8 | You said you had powerful suspicions . |
| 9 | You said you had six children |
| 10 | ‘ You said you had two jobs for me , sir . ’ |
| 11 | He said you gave marvellous picnics — and you look as if you would ! ’ |
| 12 | He said she wrote better letters than any woman he knew — ‘ only it is a different letter each time you read it . ’ |
| 13 | Husband Don , 36 , said she dreaded six weeks with Daniel , eight , Daley , six , and David , five . |
| 14 | He denied forcing the teenager to go with him in a car and said she had many chances to leave him . |
| 15 | Sid Walcott , 49 , said she had shouting matches with her boyfriend , the children 's father . |
| 16 | She said she had bad dreams all the time . ’ |
| 17 | WPC Tracey Scanlon said she demanded forensic tests on suggestive notes left in her work tray . |
| 18 | A friend indicated that the Army had seemed at first to understand when the WRAC driver said she feared other Paratroopers would victimise her for ‘ squealing ’ on their pals . |
| 19 | The superintendent said she wanted some men to investigate the stories that Nicola was looking into before her death — child porn and drugs . |
| 20 | ‘ As you said she did two nights ago . |
| 21 | Another grandfather , a retired Manchester newsagent , would light the fires , mend shoes , and peel the potatoes , while in a south London stableman 's home the grandfather would clean the shoes and cook too — ‘ We always said we had two mothers and two fathers , always . ’ |
| 22 | Both Macca and Wilko said we have more points now than when we won the Championship . |
| 23 | Mr Humphreys said they offered different versions of the number of beds in the hospitals ; the number of people working there ; the volume of traffic on Hollyhurst Road ; the number of parking spaces which were to be created by Bioplan and the shift patterns worked by staff at Bioplan . |
| 24 | Isa recorded the proceedings — no doubt simply to refresh his memory of the sense of the meeting — but men found the recorder inhibiting , said they feared secret police , reprisals , a black mark . |
| 25 | Observers said they expected pro-reform supporters of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to win 70 per cent of the 270 seats . |
| 26 | West German officials said they hoped similar arrangements could be made . |
| 27 | Two out of three voters said they wished other candidates were available . |
| 28 | Miss Tuckey said they made good agents . |
| 29 | You said they had nice boys at Walthamstow . |
| 30 | Other employees said they had favourite sections of the roadshow , and everyone was enthusiastic about the Crystal Maze game that makes up part of the roadshow . |