Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] says " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just says to Mrs Sneddon that she needed a new battery for her hearing aid and that a daimen-icker in a thrave didny mean whit she thought it did ! |
| 2 | I do n't know about checking and balancing , I just says balancing . |
| 3 | I did n't ask her if she could , I just says are you coming . |
| 4 | And then er when they came back he says she says you know and I just says er and when she got out of the car , Dawn was out in the gar in the garden walking , and she said she just got out of the car and she looked over at Dawn like that took the kids in and she said I just says here you are , she said , come on Ashley over here , you stay and play in your back and your side of the er street from now on . |
| 5 | And then er when they came back he says she says you know and I just says er and when she got out of the car , Dawn was out in the gar in the garden walking , and she said she just got out of the car and she looked over at Dawn like that took the kids in and she said I just says here you are , she said , come on Ashley over here , you stay and play in your back and your side of the er street from now on . |
| 6 | I always says it . |
| 7 | I always says its longer than Hamlet and not as funny . |
| 8 | I always says it to her face |
| 9 | ‘ Well they were townies you know , ’ she finally says , ‘ and it looked to me that when townies hung out together they all dressed the same , did the same things , went to the same places and I was really different . |
| 10 | This old woman do n't hear the first time , and when I say it again , she just says yes and walks away . |
| 11 | I did n't like it there , so my mother came to see me and when she seen the bairn she just says , ‘ Come home . ’ |
| 12 | She just says things to get attention . |
| 13 | No she just says he 's a bloody big head ! |
| 14 | She just says , I did n't like he walks past . |
| 15 | ‘ She always says that on the court she is n't a mum for me and I ca n't imagine that she is n't my mum . |
| 16 | She always says it 's easy to remember her age as she was twenty-one in 1914 . |
| 17 | She always says she irritated you . |
| 18 | ‘ She always says the crossing gives her an opportunity to relax and study her scripts . ’ |
| 19 | There 's good in everyone , she always says , and so there is . ’ |
| 20 | She always says one , then two |
| 21 | She 'll say a few daft things like she always says , how 's my mother ? |
| 22 | Jean never put any thing away , she always says I 'm going to do it , she 's for ever saying oh |
| 23 | She always says that to her gramps in the morning . |
| 24 | Well she always says get your arse back to Eng |
| 25 | yeah , she always says that why , are you a bit pissed off with her ? |
| 26 | She always says I ca n't be bothered to play the piano , I ca n't play that and I have to make some shitty little tune up |
| 27 | So she says , she always says to me do n't buy erm |
| 28 | if you ev if she ever says to you she has n't seen you since whatever it was , you say Carole it works both ways , I have n't seen you either . |
| 29 | She probably says things she does n't mean … |
| 30 | What each speaker says is half the picture , but now we have the missing part : what she also says through how she chooses to look , to make the picture complete . |