Example sentences of "[pers pn] say [prep] the man " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you for coming so quickly , ’ I said to the man as I wrote a cheque . |
| 2 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 3 | I said to the man |
| 4 | Our King repeated his great prayer ‘ I said to the man at the gate of the Year … give me a light … . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Something smells awful in here , ’ I said to the man behind the fish bar . |
| 6 | I SAID to the man who stood at the gate of the year , ‘ Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I said to the man ‘ Where are you going with that horse ? ’ and he said , ‘ How much will you give me ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Give me my bill , ’ I said to the man behind the desk , ‘ and bring down my suitcase in half an hour . ’ |
| 9 | when , when Arthur bought his camera I said to the man er do you think I 'll be able to use it ? |
| 10 | She said of the man behind that last letter : ‘ The forward right-slanted writing indicates that emotions took priority over his thinking . |
| 11 | She said to the man , ‘ What 's the name of this place ? ’ |
| 12 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 13 | ‘ Tony , I do n't think you know Maggie , ’ he said to the man . |
| 14 | So he said to the man who led the horse , Sam Burch : |
| 15 | ‘ These look good ones , ’ he said to the man . |
| 16 | Just like the telly , ’ he said to the man , and received a lopsided grin for his pains . |
| 17 | So he went back up onto the main road and very little further on , in fact , he in fact found a village and spent the night at the hostelry and he said to the man in the hostelry you know , he that he 'd been lost and that a a little bit back on the road he 'd seen this big house all alight and he had erm , you know , gone in the drive and tried to get get a room there but could n't make anybody hear and the erm the inn keeper said , no he said er you would n't make anyone hear there , he said and if you go back there tomorrow the house wo n't be there ! |