Example sentences of "[pron] said [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said that without my dear brother I had little care where I was , and no one I wished to speak to . |
| 2 | Earlier I said that on the whole our food was not bad : salads , fruits and nuts were plentiful but I had taken on my parent 's tastes . |
| 3 | Er Foster and Allen are here and when I said that at the beginning of the programme it started a flurry of phone calls as to where they were . |
| 4 | Oh I , I said that to you at the time Robert , I mean I 'll be honest and I saw that document and I nearly died and it 's the way they say it too |
| 5 | ‘ I said that to … to get back at you , because I thought you were ashamed of it , ’ she admitted , beginning to feel slightly guilty . |
| 6 | They do n't ca they do n't care I used to say that a if I said that to Steven pack it in , somebody will hear , he 'd say well open the bloody windows and let them hear ! |
| 7 | I know , I said that to Kevin , if you 're part of the family |
| 8 | No she was n't , but even so , you know , I said that to Liz , Liz said oh it 's not , it 's nothing to do with your responsibility . |
| 9 | Well like I said , I said that , I said that to Pete and Pete goes , God I wish he 'd make up his mind ! |
| 10 | I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep |
| 11 | I said that to her and she said yes she said I can go , I 'm she said . |
| 12 | and when I said that to Penny she said well that 's nice she said you 've got ta lot of , a lot of friends at home , I said no , I have n't got friends |
| 13 | Yesterday I said that to you , cos I says oh who 's been good and filled them |
| 14 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 15 | I know I 'm not saying sorry , because I said that in those letters I wrote , and then I had to copy them out again , because they were n't neat enough , and that 's enough sorries for anyone . |
| 16 | I said that in pointing into the flower-vase and saying , ‘ Here ’ , I am obviously distinguishing one place from another as the place where the thimble is , and that if places could n't be distinguished — by pointing , or naming , or describing , or giving co-ordinates or in some other way — there would be no possibility of this use of ‘ Here ’ . |
| 17 | I said that in so far as ‘ Here ’ , in reply to ‘ Where are you ? ’ has a meaning , as distinct from a use , its meaningfulness is parasitic on the meaningfulness of ‘ Here ’ in reply to ‘ Where is it ? ’ , the meaningfulness of this being conditional on the possibility of distinguishing places . |
| 18 | The next point that upset him was that I said that unlike the American President , the Prime Minister was relieved of a great deal of official ceremonial by the Queen and Prince Philip . |
| 19 | ‘ Bad luck , ’ I said although for my own sake I was glad that he had failed . |
| 20 | And I said and of course to do it really properly , you also have envelopes so that if you want to you can stick , stick the card in an envelope that will |
| 21 | So I said and in that case then probably you move them into another caravan ? |
| 22 | I said because at least you could have some nude men for me ! |
| 23 | I said because in the bloody book there 's no cars on the roundabout and I says it ! |
| 24 | if somebody said that to me like dad 's just explained , I 'd know . |
| 25 | The group issued a statement which said that in view of the adverse publicity accorded to a vocal minority they felt that it was their duty in the interests of democracy and employment in the area to state that there is a silent majority in favour of the proposed Raybestos development . |
| 26 | Again , when Jews were refused ordination in the national protestant church in Germany during the Third Reich , the church split , for there were those who said that on principle ( whatever might be the case in the state ) this could not be in the church . |
| 27 | Who said that to you , those things ? ’ |
| 28 | Gen. Tadeusz Wilecki took over as Chief of General Staff of the Polish Army on Aug. 12 , replacing Gen. Zdzislaw Stelmaszuk , who said that during his five years in command , the army had been reduced from 412,000 to 217,000 soldiers . |
| 29 | Gen. Tadeusz Wilecki took over as Chief of General Staff of the Polish Army on Aug. 12 , replacing Gen. Zdzislaw Stelmaszuk , who said that during his five years in command , the army had been reduced from 412,000 to 217,000 soldiers . |
| 30 | The last evidence of the day came from a man called Povey , a coalman , who said that between 5.05 and 5.25 , he had seen a man who he identified as Drew , drunk as a sack in Broad Street ( adjacent to Cross Street ) . |