Example sentences of "[pron] say [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say that I thought we had already been through all this . |
| 2 | Unless I say if you knocked him down . |
| 3 | I says if they lent me it erm well they might want us to watch it now and lend it to someone else . |
| 4 | I said that I understood she came from the Continent , and she told me that she was born in Denmark . |
| 5 | I said that I thought they were wrong ; but that if that was their reason for declining to serve I could only accept it and be sorry . |
| 6 | Back in Britain writing my last newsletter to the Group in Scotland I had loved and brought together , I said that I thought we had to be much bolder , taking an a priori stance on the fact that there could be no discrimination against women . |
| 7 | I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come . |
| 8 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |
| 9 | I said that I believed it would now be right to give some indication of the Government 's attitude to the building of a tunnel . |
| 10 | ‘ If I said that I trusted you , ’ she whispered , forcing the words to form , ‘ if I told you that , come what may , I trusted you , would you still be confused ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I said that she believed it , ’ she persisted furiously . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I says you put it there , I said cos you used it last ! |
| 14 | ‘ Someone who wanted to do what you 've just done , ’ I said as I followed him inside . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's time you went , ’ I said as I watched him go but I did n't mean it . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's decent of you , ’ I said and I meant it . |
| 17 | I said when she did it , she goes oh my God ! |
| 18 | ‘ I said if we drew it was not the end of the world . |
| 19 | That 's what I said to him , I said if you sent me to a |
| 20 | No , I said if he needed it ! |
| 21 | One , what were the differences when you say that they chose them , so even though the basic shape was the same there were obviously some , there were some variations ? |
| 22 | She says that they gave them every assistance possible . |
| 23 | She says that I said she looked like a bloody parrot . |
| 24 | She says that she knew they were being pushed down the hill and she screamed when she felt the flames . |
| 25 | Are you saying that we bundled him down to the waterside and had him hanged ? |
| 26 | Then he continued , ‘ I also remember you saying that you believed you would probably never marry again . ’ |
| 27 | She said but she said I 'll say seven days but , she 's put the but in . |
| 28 | when I spoke to about it she said that you told her to hand it over to my department cos it was a national account |
| 29 | And they talked to her , most politely : the Martin man asked her when she was doing her Finals , and she told him , and he asked her what she was going to do then , and she said that she thought she would do a teacher 's training course . |
| 30 | As she pulled the dress over my head she said that she thought it would still fit her , that she could see the hole at the neckline where my grandmother had pinned a pearl brooch as something old , that the classic line never dated . |