Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | three or four times I had to speak to him last night , and you never said a word , you just pretended or said you did n't hear |
| 2 | Lizzie grumbled and said she was getting thin and doing too much , but then Lizzie would have grumbled if she had done too little . |
| 3 | So I came out with my speech about this weirdo , nothing in it et cetera et cetera , and then the money ran out and I got her to ring me back and I said it all over again ( nothing in it … ) and she hooted and said , ‘ I 'll bet . |
| 4 | Himmler winced and said to the girl , ‘ Leave us . |
| 5 | Vincent Piedboeuf , computer systems project leader for the international organisation , revealed that vital research into the disease had been halted when the computer became overloaded and crashed and said EORTC had been saddled with a gigantic phone bill . |
| 6 | Dr Meredith rose and said : ‘ My condolences , Stevens . |
| 7 | I did not know how he would take all this ; but at the end of the interview he rose and said , ‘ I agree entirely with what you said at the beginning . |
| 8 | He paced and said nothing . |
| 9 | ‘ I phoned and said , ‘ Where 's the money ? ’ and was told there were problems with the book-keeper , who would be coming in to sort it out , ’ says Debbie . |
| 10 | ‘ Ma Sisulu phoned and said : ‘ Dudu , we 're in trouble . ’ |
| 11 | and erm cos then Pam ph Penny phoned and said shall , it 's her who 's the horsy fanatic but it 's lovely . |
| 12 | Graham then back-tracked and said it was China , rather than Russia , which worried him . |
| 13 | And when he sagged and said he 'd had enough of the place and it was not what he had thought it would be , she said life never was and that if he wanted to stay in Fleet Street he would be foolish to leave without a new job to go to . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , he joked and said he would take it to heaven with him . |
| 15 | Then he stopped and said , ‘ Great . |
| 16 | As he passed her he stopped and said , ‘ He did n't give you any idea what was wrong ? ’ |
| 17 | He stopped and said he would take me back to the Hall . |
| 18 | The unaccustomed air of the realms above — ; Too sharp , too rich a mixture for her shrunk lungs — ; He stopped and said ‘ One last thing I must show you . |
| 19 | I waited until they stopped and said ; ‘ Porteneil 531 . ’ |
| 20 | It 's all very well keeping mentally flexible and all the rest of the who-har , but if you , er , my , my mother stopped and said to her many years ago , she said , you do n't look your age , you do n't act your age , you do n't sound your age , you do n't think your age , but you are your age , and this is absolutely true , as you grow older , nothing will stop the fact that your arteries get a little harder , so that , you know , that you get raised blood pressure quite easily if your agitated and you are , for some reason you , you have to puff a lot more , I was reading about this just recently , and these are changes that take place whatever you do , you can exercise , and you can take vitamins and you can keep your weight down , but you age . |
| 21 | She smiled and straightened as Greg approached and said : ‘ It looks as if you 've cheered him up . ’ |
| 22 | And he turned toward the East and knelt and said , Holy Mary Mother , and all Saints , pray to God for me , that he may give me strength to destroy all the Pagans , and to win enough from them to requite my friends therewith , and all those who follow and help me . |
| 23 | ‘ A strange monastic-looking man , ’ said Harold Macmillan , ‘ emaciated and said to live off watercress grown off the blotting paper on his desk . ’ |
| 24 | Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries , which owns the Turk 's Head pub next door , objected and said the area already had too many pubs . |
| 25 | Then he rallied and said , ‘ Well , you 're in for a treat , in that case , surrounded by her paintings in that lovely house . |
| 26 | However , Lord Justice Watkins disagreed and said he saw no difficulty in imposing upon the assessment officer the duty to discover what intention lay behind the reduction of capital . |
| 27 | The receivers disagreed and said that they needed to raise a further £22,000 and wanted to realise one further property belonging to B and L. |
| 28 | Lord Justice Dillon disagreed and said he would have granted a declaration that the UK was in breach of its obligations under the Treaty of Rome and European law . |
| 29 | Father Kipling stooped and said a few words to them as he passed into the sacristy to vest , and they turned round and looked at Clare . |
| 30 | Then one day the foreman came and said ‘ Mrs Desai , why have you packed up ? ’ |