Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] said " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | If only I was this , if I 'd only said that , done the other — why always ME ? |
| 2 | He 'd only said that to get him out of Mrs Wright 's house . |
| 3 | But none of it was true — she 'd only said it to cover her own growing confusion , a confusion she now realised had come out of what she 'd begun to feel for him . |
| 4 | Sighing helplessly , she 'd merely said , ‘ If you do n't give these girls a terrific reference they 're likely to turn around and sue you in the courts for defamation of character ! ’ |
| 5 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 6 | What he 'd just said reminded her of that business last night with the tape . |
| 7 | For a moment , she was n't sure of what she 'd just said . |
| 8 | And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ? |
| 9 | , ’ Eric rambled on in the earpiece , apparently oblivious to what I 'd just said . |
| 10 | Was he right — about what he 'd just said ? |
| 11 | ‘ Peter , ’ said Sarella when she 'd got over the shock of what he 'd just said , ‘ surely you do n't imagine we can go on with this charade any longer ? ’ |
| 12 | He did n't apologise for what he 'd just said , she did n't expect him to . |
| 13 | And , while her heart raced that there was a hint in what he 'd just said that he might be prepared to sightsee with her that afternoon , ‘ You must be parched ! ’ she apologised . |
| 14 | Now whether he 'd just said that , or whether he actually had . |
| 15 | Wish I 'd just said seven now ! |
| 16 | Yes , the implications are very heavy , I had not realised what you 'd just said , and we should refer that to Amanda and indeed take all take it on board , otherwise we 'll be taking on the world . |
| 17 | Rose-Marie glided up in her clinging black lunch frock , raised her finger and said , as she 'd already said several times that day , ‘ Catreeona , this is your last warning . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a great shame because every year the prize-wining pumpkin is used in the seeds contest by a local pub and I 'd already said they could have it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've still got the knife , ’ she said , but she knew she 'd already said it too many times . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ You 'd already said his calls were being made from callboxes , a tap would have been unlikely to trace him unless he repeatedly used the same box and he 's too bright for that . |
| 21 | Bishops Hall doing it nicely under Brad and it 's good to see him in the saddle today because he was offered the ride on Morley Street but he 'd already said yes and he 's a man of his word and he agreed to ride this horse . |
| 22 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 23 | And then I asked my father on Tuesday to remind him and he said , he 'd already said he 'd fetch them in on Tuesday . |
| 24 | and then he asked me then and erm , he did n't know whether to ask me or not , well he knew , he knew more or less I 'd say yes anyway , cos I more , I 'd already said yes , but not to his face , so but he did n't know whether to because Henry fancied me |
| 25 | She 'd always said he 'd kill himself driving like that and now he had . |
| 26 | Now I 'd always said to myself , ‘ I 'll never join the Masonic Lodge , ’ and therefore I would n't join the Bobby Burns Club . |
| 27 | Too big for his boots , as she 'd always said . |
| 28 | Brian and Terry remained slightly more cautious , Anderson saying , ‘ I 'll give it a Ben , ’ a reference to Ben Weir who 'd always said , ‘ I 'll give it another month . ’ |
| 29 | We 'd often talked about it and I 'd always said , No , I would never do anything like that until I got married . |
| 30 | He 'd always said so . |