Example sentences of "said to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was interesting was the director who said to everyone auditioning — ‘ Look I know you are all good actresses . |
| 2 | As Richard Attenborough once said to me , ‘ If you have n't learnt to play to an audience that is present , how can you expect to play to one that is n't ? ’ |
| 3 | I told him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) it was people like him who kept the idea of art going , kept the opera houses of the world open , kept the bookshops of the world open , they ought to take you out and shoot you , I said to him . |
| 4 | I told you , I said to him , I suddenly did n't see any point in it . |
| 5 | I told you , I said to him , I just pulled in and heaved them out . |
| 6 | Your heart was never in it , I said to him later . |
| 7 | After his first TV series I said to him : Are n't you happier as a media critic , putting shitty artists in their places , than as a failed shitty artist being put in his place ? |
| 8 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 9 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 10 | In ten years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , they may still remember us both . |
| 11 | Mushrooms grow in the dark , I said to Hilda . |
| 12 | Cold is bad , I said to her . |
| 13 | Now I know , I said to her . |
| 14 | You see what I mean ? he said to me . |
| 15 | Please , I said to him , no hints dropped in the course of articles on other things . |
| 16 | Sometimes it takes a little while to realize you really have lost interest in something , I said to him . |
| 17 | ‘ But I saw your husband come into the tent while you were over at the tombola , ’ Mrs Doran said to Mrs Yardley . |
| 18 | ‘ Disloyal to letter boxes , ’ I said to myself and went down the passage where I could laugh without being heard . |
| 19 | Mary peeped in to get another look at those wonderful moustaches and said to herself that they were nothing like corkscrews , more like one of those curved oriental swords that would cut right through you . |
| 20 | ‘ My dear , ’ he said to his wife , ‘ are n't you going to tell our guests about our new addition to the dining-room ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ No , ’ I said to myself . |
| 22 | ‘ This is where they herd the humans , girl , ’ I said to myself . |
| 23 | ‘ These machines are designed to make you lose , you twit , ’ I said to myself . |
| 24 | I said to myself . |
| 25 | ‘ It wo n't be long , ’ I said to myself . |
| 26 | ‘ This wo n't do , ’ she said to Jay suddenly . |
| 27 | ‘ Hum , ’ Jay said to Francis over their café breakfast , ‘ I have a butterfly in my bedroom . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Lock the door behind me ! ’ he said to his wife . |
| 29 | Cameron pretended not to see young Donald till he was close beside him , then turned in mock surprise and said to him , ‘ Well well , Donald — we had given you up . |
| 30 | The Flemyng entourage , he said to himself , now what will he find fault with today , and what news will he have heard ? |