Example sentences of "[pers pn] said [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said there was to be a sale , but I would ask the solicitor ; and afterwards , when he came to take the barometer away , he took it down from the wall very , very gently . |
| 2 | She telephoned offering to help when my wife was ill and when I said there was nothing she or anyone could do , she did n't keep fussing . |
| 3 | A few weeks ago I said there were 10 teams in contention , now I reckon it has whittled down to six . |
| 4 | I said there had been an accident . |
| 5 | Seems I was wrong when I said there were just two common ways of arranging fuel and water tanks . |
| 6 | I said there was no way I wanted to live on my own . |
| 7 | They were referred to the clinic by their doctors in Greece or the Middle East , and looked horrified when I said there was no lift and they had to walk down seventeen stairs to the basement . |
| 8 | Earlier I said there were two types of data files ; the other is the type which you create using a computer program . |
| 9 | A couple of months ago he wanted to come back but I said there 's no way he 'd come back here without us being married . |
| 10 | I cried Will , I said there 's a mole in this kitchen m mole this there 's a mole of this garden Will . |
| 11 | I said there was nothing else in the safe but behind the books there was a cardboard box — rectangular , like a shoe box , but longer . ’ |
| 12 | I said there 's no need to lock it Mike , it 's alright , you know . |
| 13 | That 's when you had a coalition government and erm then course he , they denationalized the docks then and course now ther one or two docks the they 're putting 'em , making 'em redundant because I said there 's not the manual work today , that 's like London , Liverpool . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought I said there were to be no unaccompanied flights ? ’ she snaps . |
| 15 | I said there was n't one , you see and er he said , er so you were walking , were you arm in arm ? |
| 16 | Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time . |
| 17 | ‘ I said there was no need ! ’ |
| 18 | But I said there was another important aspect to this I would mention later , and now we 've reached that point , and I 'll explain what it is . |
| 19 | I heard his name mentioned once … but as I said there was no coverage really . |
| 20 | Well he was dashing out when I when I called him erm his wife answered the phone and she said you just him he 's going out at the door so he came rushing back and I said I wanted him to judge champion of champions and the and I said there 'll be two and he said , hang on , and he 's write it down said I 'll just stick it all at one and see to it when I come back , oh I got ta go and he went . |
| 21 | As I said there are just three sizes but I 've got five five prices , I would just like to home in on those three . |
| 22 | I said there 's y'know it was a couple of minutes late and they said erm it had to be processed through the proper channels . |
| 23 | Do you remember when I said er as we were going through I said there were one or two things that you perhaps could help me with ? |
| 24 | well you remember er when we sat down this evening I said there was a couple of ways that you could help me , one of these ways was that er you might be able to introduce me to one or two of your friends and I can run through the same ideas with them . |
| 25 | Er you remember earlier this evening I said there was two ways you could help me |
| 26 | Do you remember earlier this evening when we was erm talking of going through erm I said there were ways that perhaps you might be able to help me erm |
| 27 | This is the shop as is self evident and one of the I said there were some benefits erm the stewards do get a discount in the shop . |
| 28 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 29 | I said there 's no , no way I can get out and get her card or a card or erm |
| 30 | Cos I said there was some |