Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dorset , ’ someone had said at a recent dinner . |
| 2 | About how , as Elinor and Elinor 's mother stood by the flowers in the rain at Putney Vale Crematorium , someone had said to him , ‘ They 're taking it very well ! ’ |
| 3 | I mean , like , like now , we were a , say even two and three years ago and somebody 'd said to me , are you going to Spain , and I would have said , yeah , we 'll go to Majorca , lovely , we could stop out all night , do what you want . |
| 4 | the whole place was gon na come to a halt if anybody fired a flash gun and furiously Fred grabbed the royal people and I grabbed the Finns and we started reorganising the present so they could take place under the enormous great windows that there are in and nobody had said at any time a flash gun will stop the machines . |
| 5 | And somebody had said to her erm said something about him and her , and she says well , she said he he 's , he 's I 've got the brains , he has n't got nowt , she said , he can just give money and I 'll be sitting and spending it . |
| 6 | She remembered what the fat one had said about Mallachy 's hands . |
| 7 | If anyone had said to her yesterday that it would be almost beyond her powers to tell Peter of Nona 's death , she would have laughed . |