Example sentences of "[pers pn] said if " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I said if I lost the membership vote I would have resigned quietly , but I had a clear and commanding lead . ’ |
| 2 | I said if he beat Bruno , I would pay him a king 's ransom to come back and fight Mike Tyson in London . |
| 3 | On the other hand it would save us driving 30-odd extra kilometres in the rain , and anyway I said if we get there and there is n't a ferry for hours we can just carry on to Calais . |
| 4 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 5 | Er and just be a home-maker unless as I said if there was a reason for it , if they needed the money . |
| 6 | ‘ Sweetie , you know I said if there was anything heavy that needed doing you were to wait until I got in and I 'd do it . |
| 7 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 8 | No , I said if he needed it ! |
| 9 | Now when I said if you halved ten pounds and you get five , what number must go there ? |
| 10 | Last week if you remember I was talking about the primary concern of the state , a concern er which is paramount is a concern for its security and I said if you remember that there was an approach er toward the study of international politics called realism which stressed the importance of what has been termed the power security hypothesis . |
| 11 | I said if you had n't I 'd get you to go back for a chat with him . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I said if we drew it was not the end of the world . |
| 13 | ‘ I said if we did n't win this time we 'd abolish the b + + + + + + , ’ says Dixon , digging in for the first time since his Army days . |
| 14 | Erm I said if there 's any money left over I 'll give you the money , I said and give you the rest the week after or if there 's none left I 'll give you the tenner week Oh that 's alright do n't worry about that , he said , that 's fine . |
| 15 | Well erm I said if you want me to do it let me know and I 'll come and do it but just make well she 's cancelled before because once she had n't got the money and |
| 16 | I said if you go for a drink you do n't have to worry about getting home . |
| 17 | I mean normally I do n't bother with the tokens , I mean I Anyway I paid the cheque and I said to Peter I said oh by the way what about me tokens for me for me toy I said if I get a free one of them I can give it to give it to the grandchildren . |
| 18 | Well , hang on a minute I said if I 've got ta problem |
| 19 | And I said , but I said if there is n't the payments of the invoice when they are sent then you know , we 've go you 've got ta look at it . |
| 20 | I said if he played with Jim he 'd win each . |
| 21 | If that 's what you call , I , I told mother , I said if that 's what they call substantial in Northamptonshire they do n't live very well . |
| 22 | I mean a , I 've been throwing mine away now we ca n't get them at the other farm , I mean and I said if we do , we 'd better keep |
| 23 | I said if you do n't want , I said what I got here . |
| 24 | For one thing I I do n't think that the next generation of parents are going to stand it because with the , cos I told you what , what I said Neil about erm when er when he was a father I said if you had a pretty fifteen year old daughter would you want to have some rough oaf taking her down a back alley and screwing her ? |
| 25 | well we ca n't go into the reasons for that but I said let's respect the reasons I said if that 's how you feel I said , you 're a man you you must make your own decisions I said probably in a few months time you 'll come |
| 26 | and years ago Doctor said to me if you start to lose weight and y and y and I said if you 're you 're a plump girl so he said if you start to lose weight and you ca n't understand why try to put some on he said |
| 27 | That 's what I said if you buy a grey suit the trousers you 'll , I mean alright if you do n't , I mean you 'll wear , grey wo n't date . |
| 28 | No , I said if he waits till he get 's the suit , pick it up I said then he can put the trousers on pop round to one of the . |
| 29 | I said if he does n't fancy it all just put it back in the oven . |
| 30 | and I tore this paper and I said if you 're gon na have a wee wee then do it wee on me , so I said , up your |