Example sentences of "she said it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Marg I mean I phoned Margaret , she said it takes about an hour . |
| 2 | She said it had got off to a slow start but then the true issues had been recognised . |
| 3 | She said it had prompted more real conversation between them than she had achieved in all their previous encounters . |
| 4 | She said it had taken her seven years to learn to play it , and the only problem was when there was a power cut . |
| 5 | Her parents did not believe her story but , when she said it had happened again , her father secretly observed her . |
| 6 | Bunny asked how the interview had gone and she said it had gone very well . |
| 7 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 8 | But she said it had been ‘ a delight ’ . |
| 9 | She said it sounds like a good idea , till I get myself together . ’ |
| 10 | Mm she said it does . |
| 11 | And she said it does n't go bubbly . |
| 12 | alright just shut up a minute , I 'm talking to ya , so she said afterwards oh I says that was good were n't it could n't even switch the machine on and she said it does n't matter does it , she said it 's not what happens its the way you deal with it , and I made a joke of it and I said to him oh this is good i n't it ? relax you 're in safe hands I ca n't even switch the machine on , but anyway I did it in the end and he was alright , and he said thank you very much , that was , you were very good , you were very kind , cos it is frightening and one thing I said to him do n't hold your breath , because people think when their having an E C G they 've got ta hold their breath for some reason , just lie there take a deep breath and do n't breathe again but you 've never had one so you would n't no , I 'm just going to mix this up |
| 13 | Street , I said is that , is that alright , you know sort of thing I said would I , she said yes she said it does , she said it , it runs the same route as the five , two , seven , but it runs early then it becomes five , two , seven , the five , two , ones still on , like a two seven and a two one , two seven , two one and there were |
| 14 | Marie bought it for me , and she said it looked really great . |
| 15 | She said it looked as if he had been fighting . |
| 16 | Before the 17C there were two statues on the bridge , one of the Crucifixion , which Elizabeth of Bohemia ( the Winter Queen ) foolishly insisted should be torn down as she said it looked like a naked bather , and the other of the moderate Hussite king , George Poděbrady . |
| 17 | She said it looked as though Francis had n't been home all night and she was worried . ’ |
| 18 | She said it left the council no choice but to activate the distress warrants granted by the courts . |
| 19 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 20 | She said it kept off draughts . |
| 21 | ‘ She still clung to me , but the social worker was thrilled about it , she said it meant she 'd bonded well . |
| 22 | The first thing I learnt more or less was thkarni which means — well she said it meant — this white stork we 've been seeing a lot of . |
| 23 | I took this to be a dream of fear of exposure due to approaching First Night , but Amy looked it up in her Dictionary of Dreams under ‘ defecate ’ ( sorry about that ) and she said it meant a huge windfall ( that too ) . |
| 24 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 25 | I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ? |
| 26 | He wanted to call her ‘ Mam ’ , the way he had a long time ago , but she said it made her feel middle-aged and dull and ordinary , so he must never say it again , especially when other people were around . |
| 27 | She said it made a real change to have a bit of humour round the place . |
| 28 | The insolent way she said it made the other girls gasp with astonishment . |
| 29 | I think she was twenty-eight when she learned to milk , and she said it made her knees shake . |
| 30 | What she said and how she said it made me feel like a child . |