Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , everyone was just going then erm I told my m my er parents and my parents said to me go and tell your house master so I told |
| 2 | One of my patients said to me recently about the Scarsdale Two-On-One-Off combination , ‘ Dr Tarnower , this is the ultimate lifetime program . |
| 3 | There is no real reason to believe that the civil-military mission which the US sent to Vietnam would , in any event , have come to substantially different conclusions but the fact remains that their report was made under the impact of the Korean War and as one of its leaders said of the other his thoughts seemed largely to be with ‘ his ’ division in Korea . |
| 4 | Barbados was British through and through , and one of his friends said of him many years later : ‘ He was as English as can be . |
| 5 | Nor was he the only imperialist of his day of whom it might have been said , as one of his biographers said of him , that he had ‘ a genius for backing into the limelight ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ You mock me , Georgi Kirov , ’ Vologsky muttered , but it vas said in a friendly , chiding voice rather than as a rebuke . |
| 7 | It seemed wholly inadequate but it was what Egyptians said in the face of any crisis . |
| 8 | Using the terminology reminiscent of contemporary descriptions of madness ( cf. those by the thirteenth-century encyclopaedist Bartholomaeus Anglicus ) Hoccleve relates what others said of him : that he was incapable of sober reasoning , that his brain was buckish , that his gait was like a roe 's , darting hither and thither , and that his eyes were constantly in motion . |
| 9 | He made a similar reply to another member who insisted that radio should give better publicity to what MPs said in the House : it was not , he said , the job of his Ministry to build up the reputation of individual MPs . |