Example sentences of "said to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was that Katrina had once said to me ? |
| 2 | He had not written anything he had not already said to me at different times ’ . ’ |
| 3 | Certainly I have had it said to me by grieving , often very elderly , people : ‘ There 's nothing left for me now , I just want to be with my husband . |
| 4 | Tons of people have said to me , ‘ Oh , it 's nice to have a rounded body ’ , but personally I 'm not very happy with the body I 've got . |
| 5 | In one shape or size this was said to me often in writing this book , and always by women and girls themselves . |
| 6 | ‘ People had said to me that I 'd have a lot of spare time on the film set — oh sure ! |
| 7 | One young man I used to teach said to me : ‘ You do n't need to teach me when to applaud and when to shut up . |
| 8 | My younger son had said to me , going out of the door : ‘ Remember , Mum , if you let the Labour Party back in , you will ruin my education . ’ |
| 9 | Every year several of the participants have said to me , ‘ I have been studying in Britain for a year , but this is the first time I have been inside a British home ’ . |
| 10 | I was serving Mr Farraday morning coffee in the breakfast room when he had said to me : |
| 11 | That was what Mark Foo had said to me . |
| 12 | Dr Geoffrey Pasvol of the John Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said : ‘ There was so much there [ in Allison 's paper ] that Ian had said to me in the summer . ’ |
| 13 | Toomey also sees the decline in human terms : ‘ If you 'd have said to me 20 years ago that there would be no trading floor at the Stock Exchange , I would n't have believed it , ’ he says . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't let anybody beat you , do n't come back without the gold , ’ my friends had said to me , and I was determined not to let them down . |
| 15 | Remembered the first thing Vern had said to me , sitting on that bench staring at the Clifton suspension bridge : ‘ Tame . |
| 16 | On the one occasion this was said to me , my reply was : ‘ OK , imagine I go out to dinner and do n't get back . |
| 17 | It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go . |
| 18 | ‘ Tapeinosis , my dear Appleton ; be humble , be humble , ’ was said to me a score of times , and I imagine to many another student . |
| 19 | Common examples are people who have said to me : |
| 20 | Mr Angus had said to me à propos Meehan , ‘ Guilty men when they reach prison do n't go on insisting on their innocence . ’ |
| 21 | This was said to me a year after the announcement at the press conference when Fleischmann and Pons still did not know what caused the heat . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know what the reasons are because there has been nothing said to me , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ People have often said to me that Audrey should have an affair . |
| 24 | ‘ If a doctor had said to me : ‘ Chop off your right arm and your baby will be all right , ’ I would have done it , ’ she says . |
| 25 | With the growth in pre-marital sexual experience which has taken place , it might be supposed that selection of a long-term partner on these lines would be easier ; but human beings still have a tendency to believe that everything will be all right in the end and a surprising number have said to me , " things did n't go too well before we married but I thought they 'd work out . " |
| 26 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 27 | An Archbishop in the hierarchy has said to me recently oh I feel the pain but Rome does not permit it . |
| 28 | My father 's sort of said to me that if I want a job afterwards , and if I want a decent job and a job with a future , it 's got to be on the engineering side of the works . |
| 29 | ‘ So many people have said to me over the years that it is very sad I never bore Norman a child , that I only ever had stepchildren to love . |
| 30 | This was said to me , not by me , at a seminar on joint planning the other week and it was said over lunch by the director of another voluntary organisation which shall remain nameless . |