Example sentences of "[conj] i said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I said to my husband when I was pregnant , what if I have a handicapped baby ? |
| 2 | They realise that their route to the Community can be opened only if their countries are practising real democracy in respect of human rights , and multi-party Parliaments — although I said to my Polish friends , ’ You can go a bit too far . ’ |
| 3 | But anyway apart from that I said to Mr , he 's the head over all the hydroelectric stations over this erm I said Mr li these commutators I told him doing the . |
| 4 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 5 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Is not the Hon. Gentleman aware that I said in Committee that the advisers were Kenneth Ryden and Partners ? |
| 6 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 7 | He suggested we go and talk to him , so I said to David , ‘ Well , here 's this guy — I do n't know what he 's going to do , but let's go and see him . ’ |
| 8 | Ordinarily I am not a quick thinker but this situation was very clear ; it took me only seconds to realize that Matt , with his family , needed the job more than I did , so I said to Fred , ‘ In that case , I would like to resign ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ So I said to him , ’ said John , ‘ do me a favour and go back to America and give the Red Indians home rule . ’ |
| 11 | I got down there just now so I said to him |
| 12 | Well I did we we talked about this , you see Mary Anne , half way through the conversation er Neil went out of the room so that I could to Mary Ann and I said towards the end of my conversation , you know , Mary Ann you 're a very wise person , give me some advice I said , I told her about Neil not wanting no not doing well on the driving , although he can drive she said he does n't want to do it she said do n't hassle him so when he came downstairs I said I 've been talking to Mary Ann and she sends you her love and because , of course , you know , we 've got a grandson , you know she had a son , my |
| 13 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 14 | And I said to myself : ‘ Why ca n't we do the same thing in Lebanon ? ’ |
| 15 | And I said to myself : ‘ Why ca n't we do the same thing in Lebanon ? ’ |
| 16 | On another occasion , she wrote : ‘ We were in the bedroom and I said to mother : ‘ What is that ? ’ , referring to an overmantel mirror . |
| 17 | And I said to him — we had a fairly frank relationship — I said , ‘ Listen , Ron , I 'm going to be here tomorrow , and you 're not ; and I 've got to be comfortable . ’ |
| 18 | And I said to the Lord , in my pride , ‘ No , it 's okay Lord , it 's not for another twenty minutes ’ . ’ |
| 19 | She was dressed differently but it was the same face , the same hair , the same pleasant manner , and I said to her , well I put it to her , was she a twin ? |
| 20 | There was a reception desk behind a window , and I said to the girl — she had a sun-dress on , not even a uniform — ‘ That boy — where did he go ? ’ |
| 21 | And I said to him , ‘ But how did you know an antelope was there ? ’ |
| 22 | And I said to her , ‘ I know what you are going to say — you 're going to tell me that the mother of X committed suicide . ’ |
| 23 | Just turn everything up , ’ and I said to the drummer , ‘ Get out there and start drumming the intro to Hot For Teacher and I 'll come in at the appropriate moment . ’ |
| 24 | The lads in the Nags 'Ead were just talking about your bit of managerial bovver and I said to Rodney , ‘ Bruv , this could be my big chance . ’ |
| 25 | We are knocking on the door of the League and I said to him : ‘ Why not do a Barnet here ? ’ ’ |
| 26 | A recollection of John Davies , the minister for Europe in Heath 's cabinet , indicated the mood , ‘ We were at home in Cheshire , and I said to my wife and children that we should have a nice time , because I deeply believed then that it was the last Christmas of its kind that we would enjoy . ’ , |
| 27 | ‘ And I said to him , ‘ Push off , mate , I 'm not standing for that ’ — and he did , pretty quickly ! ' , |
| 28 | We 've just got to learn from the experience and I said to my players afterwards ‘ welcome to European football ’ . ’ |
| 29 | By the end of it he was standing on his own , and I said to my mother , ‘ Why did you do that ? ’ |
| 30 | It was a great achievement and I said to her , ‘ How was it so good ? ’ |