Example sentences of "i said " in BNC.

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1 I said , not entirely .
2 I said what you mean like a brothel charge ?
3 I said please let's not …
4 It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that .
5 I said .
6 I told him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) it was people like him who kept the idea of art going , kept the opera houses of the world open , kept the bookshops of the world open , they ought to take you out and shoot you , I said to him .
7 I did n't see the point , I said .
8 I am responsible , I said .
9 And the other was mine , I said .
10 It might have won , I said , and you know what you think of prizes .
11 I told you , I said to him , I suddenly did n't see any point in it .
12 I do n't know where on the map , I said .
13 Going up , I said .
14 I said .
15 We both wanted to win , I said , and now we 've been saved from temptation .
16 I told you , I said to him , I just pulled in and heaved them out .
17 Your heart was never in it , I said to him later .
18 After his first TV series I said to him : Are n't you happier as a media critic , putting shitty artists in their places , than as a failed shitty artist being put in his place ?
19 Yes , I said .
20 I had a feeling it would be for the best , I said , when I stopped on the hard shoulder that day .
21 I did n't dump them straight away , you know , I said .
22 Look me in the eye , I said .
23 In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me .
24 In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me .
25 In ten years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , they may still remember us both .
26 It was in my car , I said .
27 I suddenly decided I did n't see any point in submitting them , I said .
28 I did n't feel comfortable with them in there with me , I said .
29 Mushrooms grow in the dark , I said to Hilda .
30 Things grow in the warm darkness , I said , but I prefer it cold and moonlit .
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