Example sentences of "[pers pn] say but " in BNC.
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| 1 | No that 's right , as I say but erm anyway then after that when I left at say sixteen , you see , er er er a friend of ours who was a railway clerk at Needham Station came and told us that they were taking on girls on the Railway Company and would I like to do it and so of course I had to pass exams and er actually , can I read some notes that |
| 2 | Well I think that 's a good way of putting it , absolutely , I mean er As as I say but it it is erm I think it 's been a long process and to get I mean it 's taken nearly two years since the |
| 3 | They can expect me as er as I say but probably , for me , one of the more interesting papers on the whole agenda today . |
| 4 | O K , I just wanted us to , to do that erm , because erm , one of the things that I suspect when you 're getting down to doing your plan tomorrow , is that with the best will in the world , even though I say but this is for sales course , one of things you will want objectively to look at is either your revenue or your trading base or something , er , I just wanted to carry that through . |
| 5 | Erm as I say but but that is on there . |
| 6 | Also taking that view was Dr Tony Andrews of the Royal Veterinary College in London , who said : ‘ I know I have to be careful in what I say but in my view , the management in many herds as far as feeding regimes are concerned is little better than controlled starvation . ’ |
| 7 | I I say but I do n't feel as I want |
| 8 | so erm , as I say but |
| 9 | no , so he said erm , when I opened it court order , I said well I do n't know what yours is I said but it 's nothing to do with this , I said this is about that so when I opened the other one I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine |
| 10 | I mean I says , look I says , I 'm not , I 'm not saying you ca n't have your parties or whatever , I says but I says not in the bedrooms . |
| 11 | I says but you 'll find next year when we approach you with this declaration you 'll find it 's been changed to free passage and where will your argument be then ? |
| 12 | Oh no it does n't , I says but you do your ow er have it your own way . |
| 13 | very good I says but you tell her just to forget that will ya ? |
| 14 | I do n't know what the hell I said but I went back and did it . |
| 15 | I said but yeah I know , I gave you the money for tax purposes . |
| 16 | I said but you 've not got to do any work for this . |
| 17 | ‘ OK , I wo n't , ’ I said but she did n't hear me . |
| 18 | I said but you do appreciate there are some dead sectors in the timetable that would n't w that even the greatest salesmen in the world could n't sell because they 're precisioning sectors . |
| 19 | Joe and I mean I come a long way and they said he told them I wan na pop in Friday morning before we go He was surprised He said well I were n't surprised , I said but er you know I want a name yeah well , he just said well I ca n't he ca n't fault me on anything . |
| 20 | And I said but what is it please ? |
| 21 | But I said but that was about nineteen fourteen , nineteen fifteen . |
| 22 | I said but we have n't ! |
| 23 | So I said oh well , I said er if you we really want to get the nitty-gritties I said you know we did n't receive a Christmas card from you I said but we sent them to you . |
| 24 | I said well I 'll buy the two leave them there I said but it 's done so simple . |
| 25 | I said no she 's in bed at the moment I said but I will give her a shout . |
| 26 | I , I morning , I , she get what I said when you get one , I went and got you one I said but it was one ninety nine . |
| 27 | causing bad feeling or trying to upset her trade , I mean we know she 's rubbish but erm I , I said er I just said well the children who enjoy it enjoy it I said but he never really settled and er we felt that between us we 'd got over twenty years ' experience of working with children , we reckoned we knew a little bit more about what makes children tick . |
| 28 | Well I know I said but , I did n't realize what time it will be , why do n't we wait until tomorrow morning and then you can watch P C Postman before you go to school ? |
| 29 | I said but when you 're doing the job that you do n't like , oh do n't do it he said do n't do another one |
| 30 | Well I said to Diane you know , I did n't laugh , I did n't think it was funny , I thought it was sad and I said but he needs help , if Vaughan 's you know , he 's got two sons , but Mark 's a bit hopeless and he was at Oxford anyway , I said surely somebody should go and get him some some treatment , sanitation . |