Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] she said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 2 | Adele phoned and she said to phone you . |
| 3 | Her voice trembled as she said it . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , she prevaricated as she said , ‘ Aunt Bertha has often thought of you — wondering if you 're all right — ’ |
| 5 | Her teacher noted that she said , ‘ I got big bricks . |
| 6 | And the following visit he made here he brought with him Miss Virginia she was one of the personnel at Stepney Causeway she was the Miss Virginia , the niece of the line and she came and she said that she would help in erm doing some organisation and and giving us some insight as to what we had to do , because we had never run a fete in all our lives ! |
| 7 | N no , well see what happened to me , I mean this person came and she said er , Er if you like I 'll do it for you . |
| 8 | Cassie 's face whitened and she said , in a voice every bit as icy and disdainful as his own : |
| 9 | I asked her where she lived and she said Tower Hamlets , so I offered her a lift in the van . |
| 10 | I phoned me friend up you know and erm on Friday and asked and she said you do n't sound very well , I said I 've got a headache I said I 've had a headache every , cos I 've been on a diet and she turned round and said , she said you know she says it 's funny she says erm , you know what 's with us , what 's it with ? |
| 11 | Erm I asked and she said that his dad sent him off to get it X-rayed and she goes , But he 's had a history with his toe poor blighter . |
| 12 | And the woman thought for a minute and suddenly she realized and she said er you know gosh , that 's masturbation is n't it , and Anna Freud said yes it is . |
| 13 | Again I nodded and she said , ‘ Ah . |
| 14 | She nodded as she said with sympathy , ‘ I can understand there must be times when Matt makes you feel your father is n't so far away after all . ’ |
| 15 | The lift arrived as she said the name , and the two people inside looked at her curiously through the metal lattice . |
| 16 | Well I asked her how much you owed and she said thirty one ninety five |
| 17 | Auntie Lou 's smile vanished but she said , bravely , ‘ Do you like my blouse , Nick ? |
| 18 | Her voice trailed off as the two pairs of eyes fixed on her and her head drooped as she said , ‘ That was a silly thing to say . |
| 19 | Cos Dora rang and she said could er somebody get her twenty pounds worth and I said what do you want it for ? |
| 20 | And her face broke and she said , ‘ Oh Wyn , oh Wyn ’ , and he held her in his arms , and from where I crouched in the elbow of the stairs I saw his face and it was the face of the fox that Hywel killed , and the face of the stoat that he beat with a stick in the hen-yard , and the face of the dog that savaged the ewes . |
| 21 | Dr Neil — he 's Stair Cochrane 's younger brother — he works for the poor in an East End practice — ’ Her voice almost broke when she said his name , and her mama knew immediately that Sally-Anne was not telling them the whole truth about her East End adventures . |
| 22 | and it 's the and , yeah , me and Joanne were n't very keen on any of the carpets either and as soon as she saw that she said oh that 's lovely |
| 23 | yeah and he went and she said well it that 'd always been across that road |
| 24 | And she laughed and she said here here here she went like this and I shou shouted as well . |
| 25 | Her skin looked luminous , her hair was the colour of the pale amber beads Aunt Emily always wore because she said they helped her rheumatism . |
| 26 | Her eyes lit as the thought brought a surge of excitement ; then her face fell as she said , ‘ But — I ca n't ride — ’ |
| 27 | This is what a girl in Borstal meant when she said to me , ‘ I gave him everything I had but it was n't enough ’ . |
| 28 | It 's what my friend working in prostitution meant when she said she lost her self-respect when her husband was attracted to her colleague whom she saw as inferior to herself . |
| 29 | De Valois reiterated that thought when she said in a lecture to teachers ( 1947 ) : ‘ Classical dance requires an ordered , balanced form in which a calm spaciousness of movement animates the dancers . |
| 30 | She blinked , then laughed as she said , ‘ You must be a reader of thoughts , sir . |