Example sentences of "said [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloria poured her a spoonful from each bottle every day and said that 's why she was tough as old boots , because she always swallowed it down like a good girl . |
| 2 | Mrs Hollidaye said that 's where the prisoners of war were housed . |
| 3 | ‘ Stella said that 's near the campus — very posh . ’ |
| 4 | So John said that 's it , we 're gon na have to knock the bags [ on ] the head and just give out grams , like , and he had two lads working for him doing the bags … . |
| 5 | Please , she said that 's my skin there . |
| 6 | It 's never proved or said that 's why you lose a job , but it 's a constant threat . |
| 7 | I said that 's why I 'm phoning you . |
| 8 | They said that 's just in case the baby comes early , that 's all they said . |
| 9 | He walked past a few minutes ago and said that 's the third letter you 've written today why do n't you put them in the same envelope and save postage ? |
| 10 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 11 | Well she she told me that your M E type symptoms had got a lot worse and I said that 's we had at That 's what I chatted with her about the other day but |
| 12 | She said that 's what you come to school for . |
| 13 | Well we went off and got off at Peel which was the other with the all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 14 | He said it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police st told her , when you come back we 'll have all this typed out i and she came back all with a flask all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time , because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 15 | And I said that 's the reason that you can get a car anytime you want it . |
| 16 | laugh , unfortunately you ca n't erm ca n't erm when I was giving this similar lecture two or three years ago , erm there was er a student in the class she put up her hand she said yes , she said that 's absolutely right she said , what you 're saying about the female does n't have to submit she said I used to work as a , as a stable maid at Newmarket at a stud farm and she said er you 've got ta have five people for er er to cover a mare . |
| 17 | And she said that 's what I call you see . |
| 18 | But surely if if every pensioner said that 's it we ca n't afford to pay this and did n't pay . |
| 19 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 20 | No we said that 's how we were going to define us , erm define it , I distinctly remember that being said it would be defined |
| 21 | and she said that 's just not the way it 's done , so she she saying to him now , if you da if you wet yourself once more you 're going back in a nappy . |
| 22 | Another example of that , when a colleague of mine joined as a Trainee Manager , she was being shown round the branch by the Section and as they went , they were walking along she said oh this is the room and Susie thought , what 's it , a buff and she said that 's racking and Susie said what 's the overs racking . |
| 23 | He said , but the exams in half an hour and she said that 's right . |
| 24 | I mean we did that on the Wednesday , and he said that 's all I need now . |
| 25 | Tonight with more rain predicted , the National Rivers Authority said that 's just what we DO N'T need . |
| 26 | But Garry Manning 's widow , Elaine said that 's what he would have wanted . |
| 27 | Erm the R M I F bloke was there and he said that 's the second one he 's been to where they 've been doing the training and the launch at the same time and neither of them 've gone well . |
| 28 | I said that 's not my job , it 's the organist . |
| 29 | He fetched it in and he bunged it down and I said that 's not a twenty two , he said it is , so when he 'd gone it were only nineteen so I rung him up I says hey |
| 30 | That 's , I said that 's the best |