Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] i say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh ’ — he jerked his big head to the side — ‘ I never open me mouth but I say something . ’ |
| 2 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 3 | And when I 've expanded and I 've told you then I then come back to my ending and I say , okay so what I 've done I 've told you about three aspects of flying , about the safety of it , ab about the costs involved in taking part in flying and about the enjoyment you 're gon na get out of flying and I hope that I 've persuaded you that you will come along on Saturday to take part , and that 's the ending . |
| 4 | I mean he er he used to as regular as clock work but I say , and I have had those times when he comes four o'clock- ish even in the afternoon . |
| 5 | I feel like a worker in Stalinist Russia denouncing his comrades but I say , ‘ Well , I thought of a couple of friends of mine … ’ |
| 6 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 7 | ’ People come in and say to me that when BR is privatised you wo n't have a job and I say to them when BR is privatised you wo n't have a train . |
| 8 | I mean I er er I mean I just do n't know how you , you begin and end with this actually I mean I really do n't and I mean I think quite frankly if Hydro Electric were to go out and say okay , we will fund the purchase of twenty houses four bedrooms each for the homeless right I would have thought in terms of doing something I mean I walk round Princes Street and I see those poor sods and I say to myself |
| 9 | So I 've just got ten records on this file and I say those words carefully because you 've got ta distinguish between record , file and field . |
| 10 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 11 | Because , if I go to two different mathematicians and I say erm , can you work these sums for me ? |
| 12 | I hear some people in court and I say to myself ‘ I know why you are not here every day ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm opinionated and people ask me things and I say them . ’ |
| 14 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 15 | I go to Chapel every Sunday and I say my prayers , but I 'm not superstitious like some people I could mention — and I do n't believe in dreams ! ’ |
| 16 | You come into the building society and you 're , you 've got no money in the world and you owe twenty pounds and I say oh we 'll take that away , we 'll take that minus twenty away . |
| 17 | It 's not about violence or brutal police officers and I say that because for the last few years there 's been an awful lot of publicity about the particularly in the Metropolitan area and I ask you you will have read some terrible things about certain police officers . |
| 18 | I do n't know if I 'm unique , I suspect I 'm not but I go to my two design people and I say right blah blah blah this is what we want to do but you organise the printer I want you as the designer to find a printer that you can work with but here 's my timescale and it 's up to them |
| 19 | ‘ I just show the prisoners a picture of an aborted baby and I say to them if I had done that to a baby I deserve to be here , but what I am trying to do is prevent it happening . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And I 'm fifty-six years of age and I say what of it , ’ Malachi retorted . |
| 21 | , writes : MY mate claims that the best-selling single by the Beatles was Hey , Jude but I say it was I Want to Hold Your Hand . |
| 22 | We go to bed and I say , you locked the front door ? |
| 23 | Late night I was in bed by twenty past ten , I was in bed and I say I must of been asleep by half past , |
| 24 | And I ring up B H and I say , I 'm sorry about Tuesday night , but I 've got this guy that wants to see me , it 's really good , and she 'll say , alright , you 're starting off , O K , off you go , we 'll rearrange it for next week . |
| 25 | I do n't wan na say I 'm not going anyway , you silly bitch and I say bye and put the phone down . |
| 26 | Then we come back to me in the studio and I say , ‘ The film you have just seen was an attempt to blah blah blah . |
| 27 | I say I usually use celery but I say that grows wild in the school , so we use that |
| 28 | There 's also want more money to cheapest in the country and I say good and I hope we can fit it in this budget time and I hope we all support this , for this . |
| 29 | They 're the flowers chrysanths and I say , they come from Holland . |
| 30 | I then in front of Sam and she 's the headmistress and I say , I 've been sent to see you by Miss Huddy , Miss Trudgenell , because I got caught |