Example sentences of "[coord] i said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | And I said to myself : ‘ Why ca n't we do the same thing in Lebanon ? ’ |
| 4 | And I said to myself : ‘ Why ca n't we do the same thing in Lebanon ? ’ |
| 5 | On another occasion , she wrote : ‘ We were in the bedroom and I said to mother : ‘ What is that ? ’ , referring to an overmantel mirror . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | And I said to the Lord , in my pride , ‘ No , it 's okay Lord , it 's not for another twenty minutes ’ . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | And I said to him , ‘ But how did you know an antelope was there ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | We are knocking on the door of the League and I said to him : ‘ Why not do a Barnet here ? ’ ’ |
| 15 | 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 . ’ , |
| 16 | ‘ And I said to him , ‘ Push off , mate , I 'm not standing for that ’ — and he did , pretty quickly ! ' , |
| 17 | We 've just got to learn from the experience and I said to my players afterwards ‘ welcome to European football ’ . ’ |
| 18 | By the end of it he was standing on his own , and I said to my mother , ‘ Why did you do that ? ’ |
| 19 | It was a great achievement and I said to her , ‘ How was it so good ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And then , when he brought the lady … no , she was n't a lady , she was just a woman , and her voice was common and she called me duckie and … and I said to them , ‘ I 'm going to scream . ’ |
| 21 | And I said to myself : ‘ Of course something happened , they introduced a new style of architecture . |
| 22 | Reluctantly Elfed left the room and I said to Cis , ‘ Ritchie is your son much more than your brother , and I know how much you love each other . |
| 23 | I grabbed one of the midwives , the senior one there , and I said to her , what happens now ? |
| 24 | One thing I struck me this week there 's a new regulation as regard punctures on tyres because I had this completely flat tyre and a whole new set of tyres and I said to him well ca n't you mend it , ca n't you put an inner tube in like I I 've done before cos there was a nail in it you see . |
| 25 | So I went into the doctor 's surgery and I said to him , I said : ‘ Look , I apologise . |
| 26 | So they had a big argument downstairs , this woman plod and the others and I said to John : ‘ Look . |
| 27 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 28 | ‘ But my tummy was playing up and I said to myself , ‘ Ken . |
| 29 | Ships did not often come down this coast , and I said to myself , ‘ I 'm going to be on this island for a long time . ’ |
| 30 | When I travelled across to the other side of the island , I could see the other islands , and I said to myself , ‘ Perhaps I can get there with a boat . |