Example sentences of "said [pers pn] be the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 ? |
| 15 | So some bright spark produced small tasty jam-filled doughnuts and said THEY were the missing holes . |
| 16 | I said they were the last pair of my nylons , memorial to my relationship with Blanche . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Dennis said it 's the first holiday he 's |
| 20 | Bernstein recently said it 's the best Salome he 's ever seen . |
| 21 | off the kitchen and ru and runs the boiler , he said it 's the best kind you can get , nothing should come in there . |
| 22 | Yeah , he said it 's the best move I ever made he said getting out of here |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | She said it 's the twenty eighth and the month is December . |
| 25 | Come on come on you said you said it 's the worst year of your life the w year you wear a toupee , why ? |
| 26 | It 's not that picture of what he said it 's the little bit in there |
| 27 | They said it 's the last day Monday so if you want to borrow any money love . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But when tha , when the doctor was on in the morning , the doctor said it 's the same as the carotene in carrot |
| 30 | A spokeswoman for the band , whose hits include Love Cats and The Walk , said it is the first time The Cure will have played at such an intimate venue for almost ten years . |