Example sentences of "said [prep] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said to me just say to him like I do enough Vaughany , do n't want to hear any more . |
| 2 | The Mayor , Mayoress said to me well we 'll find you something but |
| 3 | But basically , the man that , you know , my father said to me well he said to where 's the horses ? |
| 4 | No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know . |
| 5 | dear oh dear , and she said to me well they can get these crook locks , they 've only got to a , they 've only got to bend the steering wheel , I said will |
| 6 | well your mum said to me well I 'll tell you the same as I 've told Con but I said I 'm not against the children or anything the children |
| 7 | ’ There ’ , Mala said to me firmly . |
| 8 | Sam looked longer and said to me challengingly , ‘ Well ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I said , ’ Daffodil said to me distinctly , ‘ would you bring me a clean knife ? |
| 10 | I were with them blokes Saturday at work and er one of them said to me where are you from and I says why ? |
| 11 | As Robin said to me later , ‘ suddenly to walk in and to see a sea of faces , all of whom I knew well , was the most tremendously stirring moment . |
| 12 | Jack said to me later , ‘ If you ever feel like banging their heads together in the not-too-distant future , you should remember this day and be proud . ’ |
| 13 | On the way , Sam said to me dryly , ‘ Nolan usually rides any trials . |
| 14 | ‘ I myself shall get the keys , ’ Boris said to me stylishly . |
| 15 | So it 's the sort of thing where if somebody said to me right |
| 16 | You can either react equally aggressively and verbally back in Spanish , or French , which in fact is what is happening , but that is not helpful , or as one member of staff said to me today , ‘ I came very close to clobbering him today ’ . |
| 17 | Neil said to me today |
| 18 | Mick said to me today erm |
| 19 | They said to me now do you know anybody who 's got a clear accent or anything like that so I thought yes , I 'll er , I 'll , I 'll pop in . |
| 20 | Now as you know when we used to do the sums we used to have a little bit of paper and , and work it out on this separate bit of paper , but he said to me out of the blue he said , where did it , how did you get that figure ? |
| 21 | Keep still , ’ he said to me unnecessarily . |
| 22 | But one very famous pianist — not a great destroyer of reputations — said to me recently , ‘ He was not a very nice man , and not as good as people said he was . ’ |
| 23 | One of my patients said to me recently about the Scarsdale Two-On-One-Off combination , ‘ Dr Tarnower , this is the ultimate lifetime program . |
| 24 | The former chairman of the Independent Appeals Tribunal said to me recently ‘ I wonder why it is that no benefit starts from the premises ‘ What can we do to help ? ’ but always seems to be ‘ How can we stop the bastards getting away with it ? ' ’ — coarse , but true ! |
| 25 | As James Gilbey , a member of the distilling dynasty who has known Diana since she was 17 , noted : ‘ She said to me recently that she had n't made any date in her diary past July because she does n't think she is going to be there . ’ |
| 26 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 27 | police said to me afterwards you should of we ca n't fight your claim you |
| 28 | He therefore considered them of a tradition quite different from that form of conservatism — so admirably defined by Russell Kirk in his study Eliot and his Age ( 1971 , 1984 ) — which , as Eliot said to me more than once , was the best and perhaps the only defence against the extremes of Communism and Fascism . |
| 29 | And a fellow said to me about two ye , two to three years ago I expect it was two telegraph people up that pole out an just outside of my gate and he 's still there and I walk along the gate and he turned round to me he say you 're a lucky man ! |
| 30 | She said to me earlier today she was coming . |