Example sentences of "said [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman came in and said perhaps we would rather have soup . |
| 2 | And the little old girl he says , you got ta bear in mind , he said she 's only nine he said so she ca n't do none of that she come up and she could get her leg up , she went like this ! |
| 3 | so he said it 's across the board put four thousand quid 's worth off him the other day and I only give fifty pence off he said so I ca n't do much for you . |
| 4 | Anyway he said so he could n't do it ! |
| 5 | there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then . |
| 6 | Essex Social Services said yesterday they will not be applying to have the boy taken into care . |
| 7 | Dr Tim Higenbottam , a chest consultant at Papworth hospital , Cambridge , said yesterday it might soon be possible to transplant heart , kidney , liver , and lungs from one animal species to another . |
| 8 | She said once she might love him , she said once she might not . |
| 9 | Police , who were forced to intervene , said later they would not be taking any action . |
| 10 | A navy spokeswoman said later she could not explain the hold-up . |
| 11 | E I only questioned about something on Sunday coming home , and she said well , lady that were bringing me , she said well they wo n't have it . |
| 12 | He organized it all and then I think was it a week before he suddenly said well we ca n't possibly have two hundred people walking along a nature trail that we want to protect . |
| 13 | And I said well we ca n't two days . |
| 14 | Perhaps the people were in the van and found the beds wet and said well we ca n't sleep here and they slept in the sit with the fire on . |
| 15 | So now Marie 's got to go into hospital and have this done , do n't know if she 'll be out on time and er anyway and so they , you know , she said we 've only got to face it mum , so she said well we ca n't come cos Marie ca n't face it I said they all went and got |
| 16 | And the bloke said well we ca n't charge you for that . |
| 17 | Someone said well we 'll just have a generic British paper because , you know , we 're going to do a story about a newspaper office and we need something like a newspaper but is n't actually one . |
| 18 | I said well it should n't be the bloody case at all and that 's when we got into the debate about er Aberdeen to er one following half half an hour after the other . |
| 19 | that wh who in the government would he dispose of and he sat and smiled gently and said well he would n't have appointed any of them in the first place . |
| 20 | No he said well he can just fill it in when he comes back . |
| 21 | then when he went down he said well he could n't see any yesterday . |
| 22 | she said Joe would of got them all at the top where you could n't see them and things like that , I said well you wo n't get builders doing that |
| 23 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 24 | And he hurt his back last year and the doctor said well you 'll either be dead within six months . |
| 25 | If you said well you ca n't apply this time , you may be able to in three years time but pragmatists they like something that they can take away and then put into practice straight away and they can try out . |
| 26 | So she said well you ca n't do that . |
| 27 | Aye , so you end up marking it then and er , well she did , she got me to go there second time , and he said well you ca n't you see er |
| 28 | I said to Bonny you know be careful and wear rubber gloves all the time , but she said well you ca n't always . |
| 29 | came back and said well you ca n't have chicken cos they only they do n't do chicken and er |
| 30 | She said well you ca n't be carrying microwaves around England every time you want to have a meal . |