Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] and say " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't been in the force very long and my sergeant met me and said , ‘ That chimney 's smoking . ’ |
| 2 | Well I mean the thing is , as soon as the Citizens open the box office for pantomime , I phoned them and said |
| 3 | Well I phoned them and said , I thought I 'd leave it till this morning . |
| 4 | When he did , the prim man who worked at the counter often inspected them and said , ‘ I doubt if this will come out , sir , but we 'll do our best . ’ |
| 5 | I was , I recall , leaving the drawing room with an empty teapot in my hand when Miss Kenton stopped me and said : ‘ Mr Stevens , Dr Meredith is just leaving now . ’ |
| 6 | And he stopped me and said : ‘ Son , I saw ye practising , and I 've always found with a player of your capabilities it is best to tell them to hit it straight at the pin ! ’ |
| 7 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 8 | Rosenthal was about to ask something further , but then he stopped himself and said , ‘ Do n't tell me . ’ |
| 9 | Then I phoned everybody and said , ‘ Well , I just finished my first movie . ’ ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I phoned him and said , ‘ I 've been telling everyone what a great time you had , I feel tricked , betrayed , like an idiot . ’ |
| 11 | A doctor called in police after Heath phoned him and said : ‘ The old cow keeps nagging all the time . |
| 12 | She filled a glass full of concentrated orange juice and was just about to take a sip when my nine-year-old son stopped her and said : ‘ Do n't drink it , it has n't been polluted yet . ’ |
| 13 | She stepped down from the carriage and was going to leave him , when he stopped her and said , ‘ You 're not going to turn away from me like that , dear ? |
| 14 | Cherry stopped him and said what you doing she said George this old man he 's said I 'm going to give this to the manager like he said because I 've been brought all these trolleys back . |
| 15 | He had been in Britain for over twenty years and never had any problem or contact with the police except for one occasion when he was with Mum on a shopping expedition and police officers approached him and said , ‘ You fit the description of a guy that has just mugged a woman down the road . ’ |
| 16 | At the morning coffee-break , one of his colleagues approached him and said that he practised acupuncture , and that he would relieve his shoulder tension for him if he wished . |
| 17 | Er , so you can say that er Mr is a friend of pensioner 's , he said , he said he would be prepared to , what I , I , I approached him and said er , what about Harlow Caring Council , are they prepared to assist the pensioners in any way or do they wish to join in on this , oh yes he said , of course Norman he said , how much are you paying er Ron I said well his asking forty pound for the , for the morning , oh he said I 'll go half way with that , then he came out and said to me , pull me up afterwards and ask me to go to leisure services about the Tuesday , and so I 'm still following that up and hopefully we will have two days on pensioner 's week , because you want to have as much impact as possible and in a few moments , when I nearly finished here , I shall be reading you something where you 'll see that it is important that we make an impact on the people of Harlow . |
| 18 | He recalls that in 1981 , when he ‘ crossed over ’ to become the first , and so far only , sports writer ever to win the ‘ Journalist of the Year ’ Award , Colin Hart , a sports columnist with the Sun , approached him and said ‘ Congratulations Hughie , you 've just struck a blow for the Toy Department ! ’ |
| 19 | When Akhmatova stood in line for 17 months outside the gaol in Leningrad , waiting for news of her son , a woman , hearing her name , approached her and said ‘ Can you describe this ? ’ to which the poet returned : ‘ I can . ’ |
| 20 | That model worked comfortably , so she used it and said to him , ‘ Tell me about myself . ’ |
| 21 | But if you changed it and said all black people are evil and are the cause of all the evil the world ! |
| 22 | We drove all the way down in the snow but they caught us and said we could n't have them ; not surprisingly I suppose . ’ |
| 23 | Then the pathologist straightened himself and said , with an attempt at briskness : |
| 24 | Well , he sort of noticed me and said ‘ Out , boy , fast . ’ |
| 25 | He said ‘ You do n't look well , ’ to her once , meaning to be sympathetic , but she clouted him and said , ‘ It is living with an old man that makes me not well . |
| 26 | ‘ She phoned me after you interviewed her and said she guessed you 'd found out about the affair — to warn me . |
| 27 | Well you laughed and you were sort of and I just sort of told her and said shut up , shut up and stop being so bitchy . |
| 28 | He ignored it and said : ‘ What makes you think I would n't shoot you ? ’ |
| 29 | Suddenly her daughter telephoned me and said , ‘ My mother asked if you could come as she has agreed to let you have those two things you wanted . |
| 30 | Days later , when I had decided to find myself a less cushy job , someone telephoned me and said , –You are ruining my life . ’ |