Example sentences of "said [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said everyone wanted ground coffee today . |
| 2 | He said I said one thing he 's more rebellious . |
| 3 | As I said I had one quiff from Jane that was erm because somebody had n't filled in the date by which it was agreed that the Client should get a reply and suggestion was that the procedure should be changed should be non compliance , erm and then the rest of this is based on a suggestion from Rita , and I have several here now , erm . |
| 4 | ‘ Who said I had such an idea ? ’ asked Joan innocently . |
| 5 | She said I have my good days and my bad days , said I had bad day yesterday not too bad . |
| 6 | Oh yes , they 're very , very clever so Doug was saying to me one day in work , walking dogs together in Wellington , he said I had this fellow yesterday , he just convinced a board that he did n't need any more treatment , he was cured erm , he would n't do any more |
| 7 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 8 | I said I had three kids and I could |
| 9 | And she said ooh she said I got two grandads . |
| 10 | She said I got fat fingers that 'll do . |
| 11 | I felt great when Mrs Smith said I looked pretty and that I could keep the dress . |
| 12 | Our dad said I looked common , but I told him , ‘ it 's my ‘ ead . ’ |
| 13 | Diana said I looked ill , and needed a holiday at the seaside , but St John thought I ought to concentrate on more serious work , and gave me even more Hindustani exercises to do . |
| 14 | The headmaster tried to stop me , even though there were punks in dustbin liners and mods and skinheads , because he said I looked different . |
| 15 | I said I recognize that Range Rover I said , left hand drive in n it ? |
| 16 | So he said erm I said to the woman I went to the court this morning so he said when you explain to me he said I 've got money in my pockets cos I borrowed it from dad tha he said I owed sixty two pound so he said I said to the woman in the court how can I pay this the sixty two pounds when you 've frozen my account ? |
| 17 | I said I understood this , but did not add that I had been told of the beauty of these women and their attention to make-up , of their fine skin and care for the traditional in their clothes and way of life . |
| 18 | Yeah , he said I got a thousand pound well I 'll ring around , he said I got a thousand o off my , I saved a thousand pounds on my roof he said I thought bloody hell , how much cost costing him ! |
| 19 | ‘ I never said I thought that . |
| 20 | he said , she said I thought that was his name , cos his name was up on the board I said oh yeah |
| 21 | So she said , Val said I thought good for you mate , you did n't get pushed out he 's gone they 're all gone till the new year in n it ? |
| 22 | I said I assume this be Carol ? |
| 23 | I said well do n't worry about it I said I locked all off from under my windows I says . |
| 24 | He said I bet it 's that that 's been , oh and then it jumped down and ran corner at g where ch caravan is , he said I bet that 's what 's been eating your bloody daffodil bulbs and that . |
| 25 | He said I put all my money in there . |
| 26 | But she said I hate that place , I 'm not going . |
| 27 | They 'd write a poem for her about my greatest fear , I said I remember last year there was a boy called Ali and he wrote a story about a poem about this bird and cos he was really scared of that and so I said I do n't suppose any of you will write about being scared of me except perhaps Adine ! |
| 28 | So I took it over to Paul I said I brought this for Blackie I said , I just cooked it , it smells nice . |
| 29 | After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners . |
| 30 | Well I said I felt knackered when they left here ! |