Example sentences of "i said to " in BNC.

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1 I told him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) it was people like him who kept the idea of art going , kept the opera houses of the world open , kept the bookshops of the world open , they ought to take you out and shoot you , I said to him .
2 I told you , I said to him , I suddenly did n't see any point in it .
3 I told you , I said to him , I just pulled in and heaved them out .
4 Your heart was never in it , I said to him later .
5 After his first TV series I said to him : Are n't you happier as a media critic , putting shitty artists in their places , than as a failed shitty artist being put in his place ?
6 In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me .
7 In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me .
8 In ten years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , they may still remember us both .
9 Mushrooms grow in the dark , I said to Hilda .
10 Cold is bad , I said to her .
11 Now I know , I said to her .
12 Please , I said to him , no hints dropped in the course of articles on other things .
13 Sometimes it takes a little while to realize you really have lost interest in something , I said to him .
14 ‘ Disloyal to letter boxes , ’ I said to myself and went down the passage where I could laugh without being heard .
15 ‘ No , ’ I said to myself .
16 ‘ This is where they herd the humans , girl , ’ I said to myself .
17 ‘ These machines are designed to make you lose , you twit , ’ I said to myself .
18 I said to myself .
19 ‘ It wo n't be long , ’ I said to myself .
20 I said to be chary of the McLaggans — ‘ No no , there is no harm really .
21 ‘ Mrs Carter , ’ I said to the supervisor , ‘ by tomorrow , please .
22 ‘ Pike , ’ I said to my shop steward , ‘ I 'd like your advice , ’ and explained what had happened .
23 ‘ Thank you for coming so quickly , ’ I said to the man as I wrote a cheque .
24 ‘ Look , ’ I said to the arresting officer , whom I will call Mr Pilcher , because that was his name .
25 I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one .
26 She told the jury : ‘ I said to him , ‘ You are a married man , ’ but he tried to get on top of me .
27 This is going to be great , I said to Taff as we settled ourselves in the trench and set up the Bren gun .
28 So I said to the organist , whose name was Bobby Page , ‘ I 'll come up on the organ . ’
29 Bye , I said to her , got to go now .
30 I said to him , do n't you think it 's morally wrong trying to con people like that , getting them to shell out all that money ?
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