Example sentences of "said to [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , find out what Blackbeard said to 'im last night . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know what you said to 'im last evenin' , but 'e 'ad a bloke call later and done a bit of a business deal with 'im that earned a fiver , would yer believe . |
| 3 | That were what she said to her that day and she says to you , if you carry on I 'm gon na have you put in that orphan 's home . |
| 4 | ‘ Could n't you discourage the poor chap , ’ Eleanor Fuller said to her one day , ‘ instead of sitting back and letting him moon around hoping your tyres need pumping up . |
| 5 | ‘ You really should be riding a horse , ’ Artemis 's stepmother said to her one morning as they waited for the hounds to move off . |
| 6 | Susanna , Will 's older daughter , was now eighteen , and Will said to her one day : |
| 7 | and I said to her one night , and we bought those bags of sweets , it was ninety nine pee for about forty |
| 8 | ‘ Good pony you 've got there , young lady , ’ Artemis 's father said to her some time later , as they walked quietly on . |
| 9 | Then she turned round and she said , I said to her those beds are soaking , I said . |
| 10 | That were first thing I said to her this morning , I says d' ya ask |
| 11 | I went to him on the Sunday morning I said morning Charlie , he said morning and I said ni I said goodnight Charlie , he say goodnight and that 's the only thing he said to me all the weekend . |
| 12 | Superintendent said to me one day , ‘ You do n't like this fellow very well . ’ |
| 13 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Tell me more about your country , ’ he said to me one day . |
| 15 | ‘ What are we going to do , Toby ? ’ he said to me one day . |
| 16 | ‘ If you want to do something useful , ’ my mother said to me one day , ‘ you can help me propagate the cactuses . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps Mr Woolf had overheard that classic remark by a member of the public who said to me one day when we were negotiating the locks of the Caledonian canal in Venturous , " I did n't know we had Inland Revenue Cutters . " |
| 18 | Three a year which was very nice and er oh well whilst I was there , you see , erm I landed up in , in Peel because I was going on a and she said to me one day this Miss er what are you doing today ? |
| 19 | Because erm Derek was looking for a supervisor and he said to me one day in a moment of desperation he said who can I make up ? |
| 20 | But , said to me one day erm |
| 21 | he said to me one day , and I do n't remember the day he said the best thing would be for her to go on casual , then she can keep her thingy thingy . |
| 22 | And he sa and he said to me one day , are you fucking deaf ! |
| 23 | This is when I was pregnant went to put my name down on the housing list and they said to me sorry you ca n't we 've got too many people on there already . |
| 24 | Well Paul , Paul said to me six hundred , about seven hundred |
| 25 | I 'm frightened of the probation and the social services finding out that I 'm using again , 'cos when I came out this time , they said to me that , if I ever went back on the smack , that the kids 'd be took off me , no two ways about it … . |
| 26 | That you did not mean what you said to me that day . ’ |
| 27 | An American once said to me that British Midland 's habit of giving out boiled sweets before take off was a ‘ quaint gesture ’ . |
| 28 | No he said to me that . |
| 29 | lesson he said to me just look at Christmas in that house ! |
| 30 | said to me this morning . |