Example sentences of "[vb infin] said to " in BNC.
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| 1 | no I feel about a I I 'll I 've said to Ann , no I feel alright Ann but you know just I du n no I 'm not quite myself am I ? |
| 2 | No but you would 've said to me to , you know I had no one there Catriona , I was the only girl in the shack I was the only girl there and it was just so |
| 3 | Why should n't Fanshawe just have said to his wife , ‘ This young lady has missed her last train and since she lives in London I said we 'd give her a lift ’ ? |
| 4 | I had much I would have said to them . |
| 5 | In fact , he realized , she had simply adopted the words other people must have said to her over and over again . |
| 6 | Something of what Locke would have said to this is already contained in the Essay . |
| 7 | He , like Paul , must have said to himself , ‘ I have learned in whatsoever state I find myself , therein to be content . ’ |
| 8 | Toomey also sees the decline in human terms : ‘ If you 'd have said to me 20 years ago that there would be no trading floor at the Stock Exchange , I would n't have believed it , ’ he says . |
| 9 | I get people who I worked with ten years ago in the record business saying ‘ Been down to see City lately ? ’ — but ten years ago if you 'd have said to them ‘ How did City get on ? ’ they would have said ‘ I do n't go to soccer , I 'm into meditation ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ This is a very sensible and quiet little girl , ’ you would have said to yourself . |
| 11 | Not that Denholm would have claimed to be anything of what he would have said to be the ridiculous kind . |
| 12 | ‘ I think maybe the reason he is n't speaking to me , ’ Ellie ventured , ‘ is something you might have said to him . ’ |
| 13 | What on earth would the Colonel have said to the waiter at a world famous hotel , who the other day brought a bottle of Chambertin to the table in a bucket of ice ? |
| 14 | What could he have said to them ? |
| 15 | He might have said to her that some time in the middle of the nineteenth century a cult had grown up around the idea of the home . |
| 16 | His ferocious idealism made her think over and over again in terror of what her father would have said to her , and what she would have replied , if he had woken up when she shook him . |
| 17 | LADY DAVERS : Suppose I had married my fathers groom , what would you have said to that ? |
| 18 | I can say that you know , lots of heads and deputies ten years ago would have said to me well , what is a pen I mean what pension do I get ? |
| 19 | When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here . |
| 20 | The realisation that , no matter what Roman might have said to her , and whether he was faithful to her or not , he and Stephanie were a couple … |
| 21 | Julius stood and watched her go , and wondered what else she would have said to him if she had known the complete truth ; that he had known from the very start exactly who had sent that poison pen letter to her . |
| 22 | I had imagined that if the Secretary of State was interested in doing his job properly he would have said to us , ’ Mr. Stoner 's opinion will be made available to the first meeting of the Select Committee . ’ |
| 23 | If he had had any foresight , when the Woolf-Tumim report was published , the right hon. Gentleman would have said to himself , ’ Here is a unique and historic opportunity for me to make my reputation as one of the great Home Secretaries of the 20th century . ’ |
| 24 | I would have said to you on the phone we do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 25 | ‘ There are things I should have said to you that I did n't . |
| 26 | So you should have said to him |
| 27 | If they could have said to you would you keep it and , or transfer it t I would 've said yes please . |
| 28 | Should have said to him , you never take dad out for a curry so Kevin 's going . |
| 29 | And it was Alice , right , and as I was going out to the door , she said to Alice , Alice must have said to her , are we going tonight ? |
| 30 | No , I mean , England have bowled much better at him and Tufnell 's for example is , is very difficult to get away because it is spinning a little bit and I 'm sure that they , the England bowlers must have said to themselves , we 're not going to bowl a lot of short balls at , at we must keep it full length , erm , and so part of this slow score is due to better England bowling . |