Example sentences of "said [pron] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I thought I was the only one to satisfy you ; you told me that once ; you said I was the only one who had ever made you — ’ |
2 | John Heminges said I was the best properties man in the city . |
3 | But the managers I played for all said I was the best professional . |
4 | He said I was the healthiest ghost he 'd ever seen ! |
5 | ‘ Well , actually , Sam said I was the same height as him now and he happened to have two . |
6 | I laughed and said I was the same when I was young . |
7 | Dougald said his was the only party firmly committed to improving schools throughout Britain . |
8 | I said you 're the general dogsbody ! |
9 | He also said you 're the best in the business . ’ |
10 | Everybody said you were the best . |
11 | ‘ He always said you were the whole brains of the column . |
12 | ‘ She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls . |
13 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |
14 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
15 | He said they were the self-indulgent ramblings of a patches-on-the-elbow peasant , and who the hell did he think he was anyway ? |
16 | So some bright spark produced small tasty jam-filled doughnuts and said THEY were the missing holes . |
17 | I said they were the last pair of my nylons , memorial to my relationship with Blanche . |
18 | Now if your person were to say come round , said it 's the first time they 've had a fit you get , call an ambulance , it may be epilepsy but it could be anything else , it could erm be , be the start of er something else in the brain because that 's all an epileptic fit is , it 's an electrical impulse , nobody actually knows why or when or how it 's caused , but it happens erm , but above all be very , very nice to your casualties , they 'll want to get up and they 'll run away , they want to get out , especially if it 's outside , because they 're embarrassed by it . |
19 | And Dinda said she needed a filling , a re-filling actually and she said it 's the first that she 's been to a dentist that she could remember that she did n't notice the needle coming in , part she hates is the needle in the gum . |
20 | Dennis said it 's the first holiday he 's |
21 | Bernstein recently said it 's the best Salome he 's ever seen . |
22 | off the kitchen and ru and runs the boiler , he said it 's the best kind you can get , nothing should come in there . |
23 | Yeah , he said it 's the best move I ever made he said getting out of here |
24 | yeah , he said it 's the best move I ev he said I do n't , the lads do n't give me any trouble he says I 'm fair with them and they 're fair with me |
25 | She said it 's the twenty eighth and the month is December . |
26 | Come on come on you said you said it 's the worst year of your life the w year you wear a toupee , why ? |
27 | It 's not that picture of what he said it 's the little bit in there |
28 | They said it 's the last day Monday so if you want to borrow any money love . |
29 | And I cal , I called Alec yesterday morning like and asked , you know I said to him there 's only one and I said it 's the last one down there like . |
30 | But when tha , when the doctor was on in the morning , the doctor said it 's the same as the carotene in carrot |