Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impulsively she put her hand over his and said with passion : ‘ You are going to have to deal with a smart , slick world , quick to ridicule those who do not understand its manners — a world where you want friends , not enemies . |
| 2 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 3 | But then he restrained himself and said in a quiet voice , ‘ Know anythin' about sailin' ? ’ |
| 4 | Then she raised her face to me and said with sad seriousness , |
| 5 | On one occasion a boy I rather liked looked at me and said to his group , ‘ Bellezza d'asino ’ ( beauty of a donkey ) , which , strange as it may seem , was meant in Parma as a compliment . |
| 6 | So when I er went up , I took it up with me and said to Carolyn I said I said you wanted your mum to have this , said oh nan you can have it , I 'll go into and get myself another one she said . |
| 7 | We reached Mandalay and I went straight to the Winchester Mission where dear Willie Garrad looked shocked to see me and said in a scandalised voice , ‘ Oh , but you ca n't possibly stay here ’ — it was a Brotherhood you see ! |
| 8 | I keep remembering the last night we were here — same hotel and all — and how Matt and I went out and got stinko-paralytico together and ended up doing the Zorba dance and got thrown out and Matt pointing at me and saying to the waiters Hey do n't you recognize Mista Rick from Parkway Peninsula and they did n't and made us pay for the plates . |
| 9 | In any case , Mr Farraday seized the opportunity to grin broadly at me and say with some deliberation : |
| 10 | Michael Swinton looked easily at both of them and said to Alexandra , ‘ My dear , you really are holding court . ’ |
| 11 | Er he he he had been , in verse twenty five , now great multitudes were going along with him , and he turned to them and said to them , and you got there what he tell , what he says , he 's talking about discipleship , and of the importance of following him , and the cost that will be involved in following him , and the responsibility of those who follow him , that they are to be salt within their generation , within their environment . |
| 12 | In in school when I 'm copying off the board words with like K in the front but like they start with a C but I usually put a K and then the teachers go over them and say like this is a C sort of you know careless and all that . |
| 13 | She made an effort and pulled herself together , drawing away from them and saying with great dignity and a careful enunciation of her words , ‘ You must not q-quarrel , you two . |
| 14 | But I had to speak to you you see and I dialled you while you actually said on the air that anyone that won had to speak to you and said to Karen look if you ring back I 'll put the answer phone on . |
| 15 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 16 | The amount of press coverage that 's been generated this week by your conference has been enormously important to the local trade unions , it 's something that we can build on , it 's something that says to the local press to the local media trade unions have got something to say trade unions have got something to put forward and it 's that 's something that we will come back to erm afterwards , after you 've gone , we can use that , we can build on it . |
| 17 | I 'll find you the one that says for spoons , cos it does n't say just spoons it says plastic spoons . |
| 18 | Brothers and sisters , I say to you that the message that must leave this Conference is one that says to all trade unionists , we will fight any oppressive legislation used against us . |
| 19 | Bradley turned to him and said with sudden vehemence : |
| 20 | Louis leaned towards him and said with enormous venom , ‘ You 're in my way . ’ |
| 21 | She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant . |
| 22 | It was Williams 's perceptive and remarkable schoolteacher , Sarah Grace Cooke , who met him and said to Emlyn , ‘ He 's like you : but he has the devil in him . |
| 23 | And they awoke him and said to him , teacher do you not care that we are perishing ? |
| 24 | But Modigliani did not forget and in 1915 , when Indenbaum met him in Montparnasse , looking pale and unshaven , Modi came up to him and said in a hoarse voice , ‘ I 'm going to paint your portrait . ’ |
| 25 | I leaned over him and said in a different tone , " Do you know where Toby is ? " |
| 26 | Tavalouze sidled up behind him and said in a low voice , ‘ Remove your hood , the veil . |
| 27 | Werewolf softly whistled Mark Knopfler 's Going Home from Local Hero and did n't stop even when Jenkins walked up to him and said in a plummy voice : |
| 28 | coming to him and saying to her |
| 29 | Minnie had written to her about how terrible it had been , how Captain Cook had brought his wife up to see a specialist who had examined her and said at once there was nothing to be done , there was no operation possible , and he must take his wife home to die . |
| 30 | He had turned on her and said with cold savagery , ‘ For fuck 's sake , stop kicking me , will you ? ’ |