Example sentences of "and said to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary peeped in to get another look at those wonderful moustaches and said to herself that they were nothing like corkscrews , more like one of those curved oriental swords that would cut right through you . |
| 2 | Cameron pretended not to see young Donald till he was close beside him , then turned in mock surprise and said to him , ‘ Well well , Donald — we had given you up . |
| 3 | Menzies started to answer but Cameron put his hand on his arm , shook his head slightly , and said to Byers , ‘ I see the trouble . |
| 4 | The girl approached the taxi and said to the driver : |
| 5 | Just before a tyro Pat Pocock played his first Test there , over 21 years ago , Tom Graveney cruelly pointed to the Bridgetown sightscreen and said to the tremulous off-spinner : ‘ Oh , look lad , it 's still peppered with those little red dots from that time Clyde Walcott got after Jim Laker ten years ago . |
| 6 | I said I did n't know , and thought no more of it and it was n't until David returned and was performing at the Arts Lab on the Sunday night that I remembered and said to David , ‘ Oh , by the way , while you were away I had a message — your father is not very well ’ . |
| 7 | In the Politburo Nguyen Van Ling is expected to stay on as secretary-general , even though he is 75 and said to be in poor health . |
| 8 | One day after a very difficult time with him , I exploded and said to him : ‘ I ca n't say that the Christian faith has made much difference to your life ! ’ |
| 9 | He took one look at it and said to her , ‘ Jean , I think you should scrap the idea that Christ is the answer . |
| 10 | One of the grown-ups from along the street noticed the brooch and said to Gloria , ‘ You 're in luck ! |
| 11 | I had always believed everything he did and said to be sincere and genuinely personal , but gradually small cracks began appearing in his carefully constructed persona and well-tended integrity . |
| 12 | ‘ Then he called him in a loud voice , and said to me , ‘ I think John Bunyan must be deaf . ’ |
| 13 | He stepped forward , made polite conversation and said to the woman in the shoulderless dress : ‘ I 'm a nice chap , really , you know . ’ |
| 14 | Twelve days later the consultant intervened and said to the man , ‘ Would n't you like to stroke that dog ? ’ |
| 15 | He winked an eye at his companion and said to Frankie : ‘ Been to the pictures , have we , son ? ’ |
| 16 | He leaned over and said to Ari , ‘ You were right . |
| 17 | That model worked comfortably , so she used it and said to him , ‘ Tell me about myself . ’ |
| 18 | Imagine if you walked down a street and said to a man , ‘ Hey , I like your hair ’ , or ‘ You look nice today ’ . |
| 19 | I was conducting Elektra in Berlin — I think it was around the time of his 75th birthday — and at the end he came and said to me it was the best performance of the opera he had ever heard . |
| 20 | Sam looked longer and said to me challengingly , ‘ Well ? ’ |
| 21 | He beamed widely as he was helped down the steps and said to me : ‘ O , gib 's nichts mehr ’ ( Do n't give us any more ) . |
| 22 | He ducked down on one knee and said to himself , ‘ Sasaki , gambare ! |
| 23 | After a momentary pause , Gerrard swung his chair again and said to the audience , ‘ I hope you all understood all that . |
| 24 | When he had finished the portrait he looked at it with an expression of satisfaction and said to Indenbaum : ‘ There — that is for you ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's too late , ’ said Moxie , and said to Franca , ‘ do go and rest , dear . |
| 26 | ‘ Goodnight , O , ’ and then she turned suddenly to Boy and said to him , very pointedly : |
| 27 | I turned away and said to Miss Kenton : |
| 28 | I sat him up , and said to him in a new voice that he was not to try and move without me . |
| 29 | Or had she just seen him one day , walking around the suburb where he had been born , and said to him , in that sharp voice she used for all commands : ‘ Marry Me ! ’ |
| 30 | And he gave thanks to God for the grace which had been vouchsafed to him , and said to his mother , that he did not think it good to keep the Kings in captivity , but to let them go freely ; and he set them at liberty and bade them depart . |