Example sentences of "said [pers pn] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 2 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 3 | Now , I must confess I had n't seen much of Mr Wogan before I met him because , when I got my television set at Low Birk Hatt , Richard Megstone , the nice young gentleman who looked after the Youth Hostel in Baldersdale and kindly took care of my electrical things , said I had a choice — either BBC1 or Channel 4 . |
| 4 | ‘ One day he returned home to Chamalières and said I had a job with Michel and Pierre for £1.50 a month . |
| 5 | She said I had a letter this morning |
| 6 | Who said I had a chip ? |
| 7 | huh , I could n't believe it , I mean he 's been that thick and she says how old are you and he says thirty five , when she 's gone , when he 's gone she said blimey I thought he was forty five did n't ya ? , she said yeah , I said he ai n't wearing very well is he ? , then this woman come in and she was , she 'd had an operation and one of her stitches had n't dissolved and she said I have a shower instead of a bath , perhaps that 's why and Sue says yes that 's why because you need water to dissolve a stitch , so any way she said to her how old are you , she says thirty seven and Sue says |
| 8 | Jeans , but clean and spruce and I said I have a feeling they could have been police . |
| 9 | she said but how many of you , she said you 've a daughter ai n't ya or summat , I said at the minute , she gets married next April , by heck she said does n't time fly she says , I remember her coming and and from the paper shop |
| 10 | ‘ She said you had a chill on the kidneys and you 'd be in bed for a few days yet . |
| 11 | Shelley said , ‘ I thought you said you had a clinic today ? |
| 12 | ‘ I thought you said you had a lot of respect for him as a reporter ? ’ |
| 13 | He wanted to speak to you but I said you had a string of interviews , so he coughed up to me , nae bother . |
| 14 | and you said you had a letter . |
| 15 | Lucy 's father said she had a headful of nonsense , her public would disagree |
| 16 | I wanted to go with her but she said she had a lot to sort out with Fernando and would rather be on her own . ’ |
| 17 | She sang at her work in a voice so pure that the local men said she had a bell in every tooth , and was gifted by God … |
| 18 | ‘ She collapsed — said she had a pain , climbed off the ladder and passed out . |
| 19 | She said she had a dossier of complaints relating to the bedsit and requests to the owner to keep his tenants in order had been fruitless . |
| 20 | PF said she had a job of work to do for which she was paid . |
| 21 | So I said we have a house full of rugs because we had rugs we had tiles |
| 22 | I saw something on the television today it 's sitting there said they 've a cause about it |
| 23 | There were a couple of men waiting for me in the car park tonight , said they had a message for me from a ‘ friend ’ that ran along the lines of warning me to keep my nose out of things that did n't concern me . ’ |
| 24 | They said they had a knife and would attack him if he did n't hand over his own vehicle . |
| 25 | ‘ They said they had a gun and stuck an object into my side , threatening to shoot me if I did anything stupid . ’ |
| 26 | The witness began to cry , and said they had a quilt and other little things . |
| 27 | to erm the hospitals and erm they would appar , I might be wro , I 'm sure this is the way she explained it to me cos one of the girls in the branches did explain it to me once , and they said they have a choice of joints , like the doctor would say er |
| 28 | A spokeswoman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said it had a network of volunteers ‘ monitoring the situation ’ throughout the province . |
| 29 | It also said it has a plan to converge OSF/1 and OSF/l MK , its anticipated microkernel , into a single microkernel-based next generation OSF/1 , presumably in keeping with prior intentions ( UX No 373 ) . |
| 30 | But Sam said he had a surprise to show her ; and Sarah , obviously put up to it by him , claimed she would prefer to sit in the shade on the terrace and do a water colour of the garden at La Gracieuse . |