Example sentences of "said [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three men might have thought those things but not have said them aloud . |
| 2 | She dug her fingers in his hair convulsively and said the words which floated on top of her mind , thoughtlessly ; if she had thought about them , she would never have said them . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , Mum , you should n't have said them things , surely , ’ Jenny gasped when she could find her voice . |
| 4 | Lovely warm things will be said to-day : she might not be dead if we had said them to her while alive , and let her weep out her hurt and pain at her rejection on our shoulders . |
| 5 | Yes , the words fitted by then , no matter who had written or said them . |
| 6 | He felt he had said them before , and thought he could sense death sniffing at his shoulder , as he had that day on the Red Mountain . |
| 7 | " Do n't let the bugs bite " She said the words without thinking , just as she had said them almost every night of her life . |
| 8 | Mm I bet it 's been twisted I 've had experience of things I 've said being in the paper and not coming out as I 've said them . |
| 9 | ‘ He wrecked your act with a few well-chosen words that would have slid straight off your back if anyone else had said them . |
| 10 | I mean to a certain extent I have just said them . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , I 've said me piece , ’ declared Dolly . |
| 12 | ‘ Same reason as he should have said his was . |
| 13 | You , getting all put some back in , I need some by six o'clock , I said comes at six thirty , you ca n't have it we 're bloody cooking , any way I though you done John 's said his got because come on . |
| 14 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They 're not using it any more so they 've said I can use it for canteen stuff . |
| 16 | Once he had said I showed him a concern which he had never met with before , even from his parents , and that he would love to visit my country one day . |
| 17 | In the end , they did get some players and I have said I am pretty satisfied that the England players who went did n't go for money . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've said I 'll stand in as coach for the under-fifteens . |
| 19 | Neither of us has talked about it and I had not said I was writing until I have now started , but your father says he lay awake nearly all night thinking about it . |
| 20 | ‘ But I have not said I will not come ! |
| 21 | Although I 've said I 'm happy with how I look , it does n't mean there 's nothing about myself I would n't like to change . |
| 22 | I would never , ever have said I was anorexic , until a neighbour and now a close friend , Anita , came out and labelled me one . |
| 23 | To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’ |
| 24 | Luckily some friends of mine , who are in Georgia at the moment , have said I can stay in their flat for a couple of nights . |
| 25 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 26 | His face had lost its boyish roundness , and there was the debated moustache — I had always said I did n't fancy him with one — quite splendid , and at once my prejudice vanished . |
| 27 | ‘ I have already said I wish to make a call privately . |
| 28 | I 'VE ALWAYS SAID I CLIMB MUNROS EVERYONE I GO CLIMBING MUNROS WITH |
| 29 | ‘ I 've said I 'll start Monday . |
| 30 | The army had said I would manage no more than fifteen miles a day . |