Example sentences of "[det] and [pron] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we talk about this and we said we 're cutting the shopping down , I 'm not going shopping . |
| 2 | Well I was watching one of those Antique Road Shows quite recently and I found a chap got one of those little sort of two inch diameter one inch high chamber pots and he said and where did you get this and she said er at a car boot sale and he said and how much did you pay and she said twenty five P . |
| 3 | But erm she said she has said that we could do this and she said that 's fine , she said . |
| 4 | I pretended to ignore this and he said something in German after me which I took to mean : ‘ You must be a very dull fellow if you do n't think that sort of thing funny . ’ |
| 5 | Rain asked whether he had told anyone else about this and he said not . |
| 6 | When I had occasion to talk to the Home Secretary about this , I asked him about this and he said oh , we want it to be local and I said you mean local not region and he said yes , local and I hope my noble friend who was there will remember that when he comes to decide whether this region things ever going to get a running . |
| 7 | Mark said this and I said that . ’ |
| 8 | I began to doubt this and I said so in my talk . |
| 9 | So I went rushing round to a friend of mine who fortunately had some and I said I want to see your walking , and I was much comforted to discover that they do actually use all six legs . |
| 10 | And , when we moved , he went to another and he said : ‘ You 've got no chance . |
| 11 | I brought the duck I do n't want the duck so I said to her I got the duck but after good girl and she you 're alright with one thing and another and I said I told her I said I said to her when we were over there I said look , look you 're right if you like again so er warden came round |
| 12 | one thing and another and I said oh I do n't know , and there are Sunday and said look about taking Matthew , why do n't you let him go and I said well it 's a , it 's a long time , you know for |
| 13 | No this is , cos Marion and Matthew they like Indians and they go both me ma , start again , they like Indian meals and they 've been round to quite a few and they said this is the best one they 've been to . |
| 14 | Cos I do n't , I mean I might be really putting my foot in it but I do n't think Foxy likes him that much and he said that he 's basically he 's a it is his bark mu his bark is much worse than his bite . |
| 15 | because I was n't I said how come it ends up being that and they said you just carry . |
| 16 | Told you that and you said yuk . |
| 17 | I know I 've said that and you said oh no I could cope with your mum and |
| 18 | but that surprised the man in the queue and yet interestingly I think that and she said I was right in my assumption that that is part of the partnership philosophy of John Lewis that they work in partnership with their staff and in partnership with the community and they make their profit which is generated to start through the community which they sell to and therefore they quietly give back without wanting to play their own trumpets and in a sense I think that 's how it should be . |
| 19 | Apparently one of the the little erm boys she say , he wets himself all the time , and she turns round and she goes , he goes to er , ha ha , he started himself , and you have to change all his clothes , like that and she said |
| 20 | And it 's only because you said , previously er , that she was a sort of feminist that when , he said do this do that and she said very frankly to him do you think just because I 'm going to marry you I shall commit ? |
| 21 | So the attendant says to her , have you got a wrist watch and she had n't got her wrist watch on , but he spotted her wedding ring and he said , I 'll take that and she said , she had to hand her wedding er ring over and she vowed when she put that on that she would never |
| 22 | And I told Marie Ann about that and she said right . |
| 23 | And I said oh when was that and she said just after you 'd gone to the bank and I said oh I 've just spoken to him . |
| 24 | But she said they tell you that and she said they tell you , it 's on computer she said , but animals do go in the vans . |
| 25 | Me sister 's got one the same and I said cor I like your ring I 'll never afford that and she said it 's only Argos sixty nine bleeding quid , I thought it 's fine . |
| 26 | she said that and she said she do n't mind us swearing she said I 'll leave you fourteen , it actually says twenty tapes in the , bits of paper but she said if you could fill twenty I 'd be over the moon did she say ? |
| 27 | And Sue said she 's got nothing in view apart from that and she said to her you must have alternatives , she 's not applied to anybody or enquired about anything |
| 28 | They 've said would n't you like to be somewhere where there 's people you can talk to an that and she said yeah , did n't she ? |
| 29 | Oh well , I do n't know then , but I know she used to live in Spotter 's Wood cos erm they showed that , you see , she showed her this thing , a dog license and that and it said like , the dog and it had the dog 's history on it . |
| 30 | days and er but And so the father saw that he was safely there and the other Then when he came back he went into the house and said to Duncan er Was you speaking to the old John old John MacGregor and f He said I was that and he said I 'll let you see what my man got , and this was the little bag of gold . |