Example sentences of "said [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Oh yes , they 're very , very clever so Doug was saying to me one day in work , walking dogs together in Wellington , he said I had this fellow yesterday , he just convinced a board that he did n't need any more treatment , he was cured erm , he would n't do any more
2 I said I recognize that Range Rover I said , left hand drive in n it ?
3 But she said I hate that place , I 'm not going .
4 He says er , yeah he said I did some onion , and then , I got some of them , you know
5 ‘ I said I want that film . ’
6 so he said so he poured her another one and she said I want another glass George so he said
7 I said I needed some air , but if I do n't go back soon …
8 So she took the handbag back into Tesco and said I found this handbag erm and they said well give me your name and address and all that so in any rate what happened Bet ?
9 They said nobody survived that posting without getting his nerves shattered .
10 man said you got any experience , I said no , I said well you know experience , I felt like saying fucking well how the bloody hell am I supposed to get experience when no one will take me , but I 'm , I was n't really interested in the sales work not quite
11 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
12 " But you said you wanted this letter to go off this morning , so I 've brought it for you to sign . "
13 I thought you said you wanted some ice-cream ?
14 ‘ Come on , then , Rob ; you said you wanted some advice .
15 Kev , I seem to remember you said you used this method for the Sunderland game and the Elland Road shop — is this address how you did it ?
16 Who w somebody said you find another way , somebody said that ear earlier on in the talk .
17 He denied forcing the teenager to go with him in a car and said she had many chances to leave him .
18 aye , she said she had some chicken
19 He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean said she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen .
20 And when Mrs Knight said she had some costume jewellery in the house he followed her straight into her bedroom where he started going through her drawers .
21 ah she said she saw this fella hitting the wall and hitting the football halfway out in the road , it was fucking me .
22 And w er did sh you said she got some work , what what job did she do then to help ?
23 Miss Lynda La Plante , author of Prime Suspect , said she wanted another vote to be held if it emerged the initial ballot was unfair .
24 She said she wanted more freedom for licensees to decide their opening hours , and believed children would learn about alcohol by going into pubs with their parents .
25 The superintendent said she wanted some men to investigate the stories that Nicola was looking into before her death — child porn and drugs .
26 When she 'd finished she said she needed some peace and quiet for a while .
27 ‘ My God , woman , you were the one who said we needed more space . ’
28 Who said we trusted each other in the first place ?
29 Both Macca and Wilko said we have more points now than when we won the Championship .
30 Mr Widmer said there seemed little hope of reaching a settlement before Caldaire turned to legal action .
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