Example sentences of "said [pers pn] [be] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Heminges said I was the best properties man in the city . |
| 2 | But the managers I played for all said I was the best professional . |
| 3 | He said I was the healthiest ghost he 'd ever seen ! |
| 4 | He also said you 're the best in the business . ’ |
| 5 | Everybody said you were the best . |
| 6 | 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 ] … . |
| 7 | Bernstein recently said it 's the best Salome he 's ever seen . |
| 8 | off the kitchen and ru and runs the boiler , he said it 's the best kind you can get , nothing should come in there . |
| 9 | Yeah , he said it 's the best move I ever made he said getting out of here |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Come on come on you said you said it 's the worst year of your life the w year you wear a toupee , why ? |
| 12 | My children said it is the best learning game they have played , and I agree with them even though I still land in the water in level two . |
| 13 | The storm broke as I drove past Woomera on the way back to Port Augusta and locals there said it was the heaviest rain for nearly 200 years . |
| 14 | Duncan said it was the best that he had ever seen . |
| 15 | Both Bryan Robson and Alex Ferguson said it was the best they had ever seen a Wimbledon side play — it makes a change to get credit when it 's due . ’ |
| 16 | William said it was the best political occasion he could remember since he had heard Aneurin Bevan speak in South Wales during the war . |
| 17 | He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’ |
| 18 | She said it was the best one she 'd ever done . |
| 19 | Richard Zanuck , vice-president of Twentieth Century-Fox , said it was the best he had seen . ’ |
| 20 | He 'd got all the er information about it when he came and he said it was the best type of covering if you 've got dogs or cats . |
| 21 | A GP once said it was the nearest he ever got to brain surgery . |
| 22 | Another , a veteran who 's been sorting out homesick Latins for years , said it was the greatest treat , once in a while , to get them to cook something just-a like-a Mama used to make . |
| 23 | People said it was the finest playhouse in England . |
| 24 | Someone said it was the worst paper they had ever seen . |
| 25 | Lowther , with numerous climbing trips to Greenland behind him , said it was the hardest route he had done there . |
| 26 | Some said it was the happiest day of their long lives . |
| 27 | Ray Bellringer , a national park spokesman , said it was the biggest event of its kind in the recorded history of the mountain . |
| 28 | Sir Richard Sutton said it was the biggest meet the Cottesmore had seen that year . |
| 29 | Organiser John Morgans said it was the biggest and best ever and confirmed the festival will go ahead next year , though where is not certain as Darlington prepare to move from McMullen Road to start what they hope is a new era of success . |
| 30 | We saw him in action in South Africa for the World XV in 1989 and the guys who faced him said he is the best in the business . ’ |