Example sentences of "[prep] what [pers pn] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police say the man escaped across fields after what they said was a despicable attack . |
| 2 | But after what she said |
| 3 | It was just a funny thing to have happened , after what you said . |
| 4 | ROBBIE After what you said , about not being dependent on my father . |
| 5 | After what you said last night … |
| 6 | ‘ You thought I should write — after what you said ! ’ she exclaimed , while her heartbeats dully settled , for clearly he was more concerned with where the devil she had got to than with her in particular . |
| 7 | Well there you go Mickey , did you have any money on this one — I bet you did n't after what you said last night ? |
| 8 | I just said : ‘ Skipper , after what I said about your bowlers in the paper , I had to ! ’ |
| 9 | But I have to , because there 's no way he 'll have time for me after what I said to him . ’ |
| 10 | She came to for a bit when we brought her into the light , but I had difficulty following what she said . |
| 11 | The minority , which could muster only 160 votes against the majority 's 855 , displayed considerable bitterness towards what they said was pressure on them to accept independence , and threats that they would lose their jobs or worse . |
| 12 | I if I can just remind participants of what we said in our original objection , that further justification will be required to demonstrate that the level of detail proposed in the deposited policy H two is not incompatible with P P G three and does not involve over detailed or unduly restrictive policy guidance . |
| 13 | I think we have to say that er I would imagine that plans are well advanced for the nineteen ninety/ninety one/ninety two settlement , er so it may not be immediately that er we will get the benefit of what we said to him . |
| 14 | It was only at that point that we felt confident that the field-worker was being talked to by respondents as a person rather than as some novel sex object , and the veracity of what they said could be treated by us with more confidence . |
| 15 | The by-laws were lawful not because of what they said but rather because of what they would have said if they had been drafted lawfully . |
| 16 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
| 17 | " Did you hear anything of what they said ? " |
| 18 | We are seeking not what Parliament meant but the true meaning of what they said . |
| 19 | He watched , aware of a whole vocabulary of gesture there in the dialogue between the two men : conscious not just of what they said but of how they said it ; how their eyes met or did not meet ; how a shared smile would suddenly reveal the depths of their mutual understanding . |
| 20 | And presently what was within the books became significant also — quite small books would do , she discovered , because of what they said , one did not always have to get behind Bartholomew 's atlas or the bound volumes of Punch that lurked in the bottom of the sitting-room bookcase . |
| 21 | We are seeking not what Parliament meant but the true meaning of what they said … ’ |
| 22 | In a few cases , staff and parents ' views were downright contradictory , for example , when asked if staff kept them fully informed about their child 's progress , a number of parents felt staff tended not to tell them about their child 's good points whereas staff said that most of what they said to parents was positive . |
| 23 | I was aware of their voices but not of what they said . |
| 24 | Yeah it does , you see if Ken and Freda or anybody knew they were being televised they 'd be careful of what they said |
| 25 | The policeman typed his version of what she said on an old manual Remington . |
| 26 | Nora never took any notice of what she said either . |
| 27 | For she was afraid , nowadays , of what she said aloud , foolish things , remarks made to other people , in her dreams , in the past , remarks she repeated now accidentally . |
| 28 | Your recollection of what she said seems remarkably inaccurate . |
| 29 | Whether or not he could hear much of what she said , she did not know , but her heart was saddened that he should be here alone in his last hours . |
| 30 | ‘ Lady Ursula Berowne , remind me of what she said , Kate . ’ |