Example sentences of "i say [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I say 50% , but in fact I expect more [ savings ] , ’ he said , but would not speculate on the exact amount he would save in processing the bank 's total 30,000 phone bills . |
2 | PEOPLE GET EMOTIONAL UP MOUNTAINS , WHEN I SAY PEOPLE , I MEAN IT 'S me that gets emot1onal up mountains . |
3 | And although as I say people were very poor they seem to be very happy some of them . |
4 | Because as I say people were that poor they they knew that they just could n't afford to er to get anything you know . |
5 | Be interesting cos you can hear exactly what they 're saying , mm I say people like Simon and Doreen who do n't erm televise much and you 've got the telephone you told me do n't you ? |
6 | The only fish I , well I say fish it 's seafood , is salmon |
7 | I said squid . |
8 | I said to mum I said works out that I get it |
9 | I said £250,000 a year . |
10 | I have to say though that with the terms on which we 've gone into the European Monetary System , a six per cent fluctuation either way , which as I said means from two seventy seven deutschmarks up to three thirteen ; there 's quite a lot of risk there for an exporter if he prices himself in deutschmarks and he gets it wrong . |
11 | I said people you . |
12 | I said that I think you 'll find , Ron that Trudy if she married would have to give up her late husband 's occupational widow 's pension so that the way you 're going on now , where you go and stay with her for two or three days at a time is far better oh no , no , no , she 'll be able to keep her pension I said I very much doubt it then I said people are so jealous that if she does marry you and he does n't tell the firm I bet that one of her dear neighbours will oh no they 're all very nice people round where she lives , I thought there 's no good arguing with Ron ! |
13 | To Bobby Hunt , Minton wrote : ‘ We 've done and been done by Venice , Padua , Rome , Florence and now on the Côte , dare I say d'Azur . |