Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] said [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , but thing is I mean , you know , there 's a lot of kids out there , I mean I 've know with , sort of , Lee 's friend you know , okay , with us I mean with Lee o okay we do n't I 've often said to him , why do n't you get a Saturday job ?
2 And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ?
3 Now I 'd always said to myself , ‘ I 'll never join the Masonic Lodge , ’ and therefore I would n't join the Bobby Burns Club .
4 But it is n't because I 've just said to you several times that one point two billion for a single franchise is absolutely ridiculous .
5 so you close him on his final objection , you listen , you then sell him his objection , right , you sell him his objection , right , you confirm his answer , right , whatever he says to you and his answer you actually confirm it back to him , you do n't interrupt him , right , you do n't guess where he 's at , right and basically if work through a system you 'll get on there , now for me to be able to , to , to , what I 've just said to you is a load of garbage , but if I was sitting I was sitting actually go through each one of these steps and that 's what you term as a closing sequence , you see what I mean ?
6 As I say , I er well I 've just said to you , I mean er we sell forty odd quids worth to blokes .
7 It is gated open when it binds to molecules of acetylcholine , and in accord with what I 've just said about its selectivity , it 's a non-selective cation channel .
8 Well seriously Cass like the only thing like that I 've ever said about you like is that one day in the classroom right there was this picture of this naked woman on the right ?
9 I 've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why should n't I ? ’
10 No , I know , I do n't mean owt , owt wrong but I just ca n't remember these two names , I do n't know why , there 's something I 've never been able to , cos I 've always said to you ai n't I ?
11 I 'll feel good inside me 'cos she should n't dare to talk to me like that 'cos I 've never said to 'er noffink like that , you know .
12 But , as someone had once said to her — she could n't remember who — hate was only a hair 's breadth away from love .
13 Playing God with them , no less , someone had once said to her .
14 She was sent the script for one of the episodes — she has never said by whom — and was so enraged by one scene in which the councillor was to have been seen leaving a prostitute 's room doing up his trousers , that she sent it straight to the Postmaster General , the Minister responsible .
15 ‘ With all you 've just said on my mind ?
16 do you see what I mean , right , sit and re-question close , right you can close them on ee do you want to include the extra window for two hundred pound , you follow me you 've hit them with a price you want to close them , right and you sit and do the paperwork and you just say to them do you want me to include the extra window for two hundred pounds because you 've already said to them you , you give an extra , do you follow me ?
17 ‘ That 's the nicest thing you 've ever said to me , ’ said Lydia .
18 It was the worst thing she had ever said to him , but it had come out unpremeditated and could not be unsaid .
19 Poor Susie Smallwood , she had always said to herself , poor Susie , with her discontented little face and her sports car and her Rolex watch ; but now enviable Susie who could , and would , albeit with a show of petulance , leave Loxford and begin again .
20 ‘ Will you say to your own people what you have just said to us ? ’
21 And thankfully us independent consultants in training have just been er vindicated for all we 've ever said about them .
22 It is important that I should ask the hon. Gentleman carefully to consider what he has just said about my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , who set out the legal position as a Law Officer .
23 Well it 's just the architect She said , Well it does n't matter , if he has n't said to you .
24 I 'm sure that he has not said to you that you can do work other than your religious studies at the moment , so that 's what you should be doing but you say he has and we will check it later .
25 Perhaps he had not said to himself that in a marriage between two like this , someone was going to have to know a little less clearly what they had wanted .
26 It was the most intimate thing he had ever said to her .
27 There was n't one word of commendation in anything he had ever said to her .
28 Failure , he had often said to himself , was not a part of his life .
29 ‘ The circumstances of our times ’ , he had then said in his Report to the Committee of the House of Commons on the Poor Laws , ‘ render a change in our internal policy respecting the poor and the working classes absolutely necessary ; and the first question to be decided by every man of all ranks is : shall the alteration be made under the guidance of moderation and wisdom , foreseeing and gradually preparing each step , one regularly after another , thereby preventing a single premature advance — or , shall the change be effected by ignorance and prejudice , under the baneful influence of [ anger and violence ] … .
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