Example sentences of "[conj] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hilary Robarts said : ‘ Nothing has been written or said , as far as I know , about it being pubic hair . ’ |
| 2 | I am able to summarize something that someone has written or said . |
| 3 | Yes , the words fitted by then , no matter who had written or said them . |
| 4 | While the sisters were tending my blisters , I felt an inexpressible love choking me , I regretted all the uncharitable things I had thought or said about nuns , I felt as if I were the Magdalene , and Christ were anointing my feet . |
| 5 | Any scars , tattoos , birth marks … anything odd that he 'd done , anything weird that he 'd wanted or said . |
| 6 | And that does n't mean what it would mean if said by one of your generation ! ’ |
| 7 | Note that we can not eradicate the modifier " pragmatically given " in these definitions : an utterance of ( 71 ) may have quite different implications of precision if said to a crane operator in contrast to a fellow surgeon . |
| 8 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |
| 9 | And to cover up the dreadfulness of the moment , the pain of the knowledge that Rachel had become old , alone , and friendless , she had giggled and said something about having lost her key . |
| 10 | He smiled as if nothing unusual had happened and said , ‘ Dinner in five minutes . |
| 11 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 12 | Miss Kenton had entered and said from the door : |
| 13 | ‘ Had I known this man would come back to Lebanon , I would have called and said : ‘ Do n't come back to this country . ’ |
| 14 | It is after Zacchaeus has stood up and said to God , ‘ Listen , sir ! |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm surprised the match referee has come out and said he was right to give the free-kick to Saunders because , in his opinion , it was dangerous play by Elliott . |
| 16 | But he was satisfied with the way it had gone and said : ‘ We controlled the game but Lazio were very strong in defence . |
| 17 | We 've lied and said it is , but we 'll tell the truth for once , ’ says Cairns . |
| 18 | From his exegeses of Joseph-Marie Vien 's ‘ Selling of Cupids ’ ( in Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art ) , through to his anatomies of Cubism , Northern Romanticism , Picabia , Warhol and The Dog in Art , Rosenblum has seen and said it all . |
| 19 | ‘ Basically we 've looked and said there 's no reason for any knee-jerk reaction or across-the-board actions here , ’ Collis said , adding that Dell will be sticking to its own price timetable . |
| 20 | He would have smiled and said those are the foibles of innovators , they must be excused , and you are not after all obliged to mop up all those pools of beurre blanc which appear on your plate in such quantity . |
| 21 | I think we have got a bit more confident as the Project has gone on and said to them : well really , you ought not to be buying this . |
| 22 | The small , stout man had smiled and said , " That 's the idea , my boy . " |
| 23 | I would agree with you that if the if we have gone along and said to people , well er yo , we 've got alternative accommodation for you and they have n't wanted to go then , well I 'm sure that we hope not to give them that er er , alternative accommodation er , and it 's not in our interest at all to er , keep er , places empty , and further more we have n't really got er enough er , alternative places to put er , these er tenants in so I 'm that it 's as the result of the sort of dwellings that er we 've er we now find ourselves with as a result of the er initial buildings in the first place . |
| 24 | At the door she had suddenly looked up and said , ‘ Do n't you eat ? ’ |
| 25 | If she had come and said , ‘ There 's a flower growing in the garden at number 67 ’ , though this would also be true , it would be hard to see its relevance . |
| 26 | She had bunked off work all this week , Joanie had rung in and said she had ‘ flu ’ , and every day had been spent like this . |
| 27 | So what 's Yeah but he could have turned round and said No , so what 's he actually done ? |
| 28 | She remembered the sinking despair when the smirking waiter had shrugged and said , ‘ He 's always drunk . ’ |
| 29 | Rather than take up other points , may I ask people to read what you and I have written and said in our different roles and words . |
| 30 | She 'd wept and said he was n't to talk like that . |