Example sentences of "[adv] said to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I only said to Joe yesterday |
| 2 | Ah , I only said to Chris the other day , I thought god I have n't seen Trevor for ages , I honestly did and I , I did n't think you know , anything wrong with him . |
| 3 | So said to me yes carry on you 're doing fine you know and he went up and er well he did n't know how to start the poor fellow doing smashing and he said , Well erm imagine this hall , he said , this hall we 're in now as a big cavern underground . |
| 4 | Yeah , well before sh he was born , she stopped doing them and er she phoned up out of the blue and so said to her , no they live at Bognor I think or something . |
| 5 | The DUC found the group it was looking for in the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group : ‘ They more or less said to us , ‘ We 'll not take on your issue if we decide that in the upshot our report will be favourable to the mining companies . |
| 6 | Rufus had forgotten how often he castigated the press for inaccuracy , how he constantly said to Marigold that you could n't believe a word you read . |
| 7 | The Shah constantly said to those around him that while a dictator could survive by massacring the people , a king could never do so . |
| 8 | I was engaging in some very enthusiastic love play with my husband last week when he suddenly said to me , ‘ Ouch ! |
| 9 | In Stepney 40 per cent of the parishioners were Jews , and almost in the first week I was to become aware of something new , when the rector , Bertram Simpson , later Bishop of Southwark , suddenly said to me , ‘ Tomorrow is the Day of Atonement . |
| 10 | One day I was sitting in his room in Downing Street having a general discussion , when he suddenly said to me , ‘ Can you think of any good name for the next Honours List ? ’ |
| 11 | One day , when Diana and Mary were out and I was learning German , he suddenly said to me , ‘ I want you to learn Hindustani instead of German . |
| 12 | Last night , there he was again between the sections of The Greatest Story ( Signals , C4 ) , a kind of Michelin guide to the Hindu poem generally said to be 15 times as long as the Bible ; a fact I am not inclined to check . |
| 13 | ‘ You ca n't imagine what he just said to me ! ’ |
| 14 | They just said to him : ‘ Come with us ! ' ’ |
| 15 | She just said to him , ‘ I 'm your friend . |
| 16 | I just said to my hubby this morning , I said , ‘ The sooner its the Sixth of January and we 've got a they decorations back up the loft and poked all they clogged-up pine needles out the Hoover tube with a Knitting needle and its back to auld claes and parritch the better pleased I 'll be . ’ |
| 17 | His eyes were open and seemed to be focusing pretty well , I just said to him , ‘ Hang on in there , Lester ’ — and he seemed to take it in . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I just said to her , ‘ You throw away what you do n't like , I do n't care ’ . |
| 19 | So I got very , very depressed about it all and I just said to the officers , ‘ Put me in my cell and leave me alone . |
| 20 | ‘ I grew up when that kind of modernism was running rampant — it still is — when to be a respectable composer meant that you had to acquire a defiantly difficult style and I just said to myself , ‘ surely there 's another way to do this ? ’ |
| 21 | Erm but we were encouraged of course for it to go er as your savings and er something I heard that , that may be interesting to you er and er he just said to me in this other club , but again we were talking about , I think we 'd talking politics then and we 're not supposed to do it was a church club . |
| 22 | ‘ He just said to me , ‘ You 're French , you must know about perfume , ’ and handed it over , ’ explained Sybille . |
| 23 | I just said to myself ‘ Do n't let the bastard wear you down . |
| 24 | I just said to Walt , we ought to be getting a gon-doh-lar back . ’ |
| 25 | And I just said to her , ‘ Fine — because do n't forget who paid for the reception ’ . ’ |
| 26 | Angela just said to just alter it on the P forty five , but |
| 27 | I just said to her , you know , just tell them |
| 28 | cos what I , I just said to him I said look , I says a er sometimes I says it 's an awkward time drop for us . |
| 29 | Yeah , yeah they mentioned you the other day at Eddy just said to him you know , |
| 30 | I do n't know yet , I just said to Christy what time will you be in in the morning I do n't have time yet , in case if I have I can ask you . |