Example sentences of "[pers pn] said [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I said on that occasion was to confirm a policy agreed with the hon. Gentleman 's own party . |
| 2 | I said at half time that , if the players did n't make silly errors , the game was all over . |
| 3 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
| 4 | ‘ I do hope so , ’ I said with polite enthusiasm . |
| 5 | ‘ And I enjoyed every minute of the trip , ’ I said with genuine enthusiasm . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't … move … the arrow , ’ I said with terrible urgency . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's wonderful , ’ I said with suitable sanctimony . |
| 8 | Philip implicitly dismisses the value of his own reflections on the ugliness of modern London with off-hand self-ironizing comments which imply that he too is a product of the intellectual dissipation he criticizes : ‘ Life , I said with startling originality as I stepped out of the bus in my mackintosh , is like that ’ ( 307 ) . |
| 9 | " All right , " I said with false breeziness as I left . |
| 10 | ‘ They 'll take anyone who is n't blind , ’ I said with dismissive untruth . |
| 11 | ‘ So it does n't matter if I say no , ’ I said with some relief , for I had been feeling somewhat guilty at risking Thessy 's chances of making some money . |
| 12 | ‘ No , thanks , ’ I said with noble restraint . |
| 13 | ’ That 's all right , then , ’ I said with more confidence than I felt . |
| 14 | I said to that bloke today well how , how long am I gon na be before I go to court , he said it could be two years away |
| 15 | I said to that caravan I get upset ! |
| 16 | ‘ Well , Sir , ’ I said to one man , ‘ may I have your name , address and next of kin , please . ’ |
| 17 | And er there r there are no real er gentry in Orkney you see , and you 'll always find that if anybody gets a a a Well as I said to one boy here , I said to him look here I said your old grandfather worked in that shop till his backside was hanging out his brigs . |
| 18 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 19 | because , that , this is , the , I said to this kid the other day , he goes oh , like Ian was arguing with them when I went in |
| 20 | But I felt such a twit , cos I said to this man I , I do n't know about you , but I ca n't get my money . |
| 21 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 22 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 23 | That was too bad cos I said to this bloke . |
| 24 | ‘ Remember what I said about this bed ? |
| 25 | This chart could then be used as the basis for an essay or a piece of revision and — although the words used might be different — you would , in fact , end up by saying just what I said in that portion of text above . |
| 26 | I said in that case we will make you a concert in mid January and I think he said are coming with them . |
| 27 | I said in that way . |
| 28 | If you think you 're going to persuade me to retract what I said in that article , you 're a bigger — ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Sod off , Toby , ’ I said in friendly fashion . |
| 30 | I said in one breath he tells me he 's not going to erm going on holiday with Linda . |