Example sentences of "and [indef pn] say " in BNC.

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31 they booked it in for you and somebody said this is reserved and they forgot to take it off your
32 and somebody said it was because since the stockmarket flopped people drew out and put the money in building societies , building societies were bursting at the seams , did n't want to , and banks as well , did n't know what to do with all this money , so , somebody went in for a loan and asked for fifty thousand and come out with a hundred thousand , they could n't get it out , give it to people , a lot , a lot of people that really er were n't safe gambles
33 Most hate me night , when I 've been out and somebody said you have evening , go and see somebody in evening and then I go , do n't mind in day time come back
34 Well I take it it must have been , yeah , there was a helicopter in the garden and somebody said he 'd flown friends in in the afternoon , so I do n't know .
35 Oh did n't wan na leave home , but anyway she went in and somebody said , oh it 'll be about a week you know my fifth one really .
36 And somebody said , we have n't had any cake !
37 Right come the morning arrived and and somebody else I ca n't remember who though , and there we were all ready to go and were walking with the press into the massive great shed where they roll the paper and make it a massive place the size of a couple of football pitches , we were just going in the door and somebody said to me they 're no gon na be using their flash guns are they ?
38 and somebody said that .
39 If we are listening to a story and somebody says So I ate it we may well know the meaning of it from somewhere earlier in the story .
40 And somebody says ‘ Why did n't you take a stat ?
41 And somebody says , let's go to Scarborough for the day .
42 So you 've go got a situation where if somebody wants to change something they 're actually , you know maybe it 's something you do in a job or something like this , and somebody says we , we really ought to change this .
43 Erm and somebody says well you , you know , you should change that .
44 And somebody says , Oh they 've dropped a bomb on the tunnel .
45 And so you 're , er , have actually , you 're at or whatever , erm , it would be nice to think , and I 'm not exactly sure , my geography 's not that good at that particular part , but you , you sort of tend to look at it , and say , right if he 's in and out , and it 's ten o'clock and somebody says they can see him at eleven , you know , and there 's this tendency , to say , well erm , O K. Yes ?
46 and somebody says , Well the girl you know he says you never call you you never told him about that .
47 Eh yeah Rick 's er , Rick 's car broke down you know and , and van broke down and somebody he , he , he lived in Clifton and worked at Radcliff on Trend and somebody says to him oh you can borrow our car it was a Reliant Regal , eh he said oh god , you know , I 'll have to park it round the corner , and he got out , did n't go into work , you know go to work every day where erm
48 the trouble is though when you have these meetings you go and people say well I do n't agree with this and I do n't agree with that and somebody says well this is n't the matter for the P T A this is a matter for the governors and then when you try and , like Gary I 'll go and approach with the governors , surely this is n't a matter for the governors , this really ought to be , you know , the ,
49 If you 're ill and somebody says are you getting better , you say ‘ Well , no , I feel worse today ’ .
50 And I thought blimey , he 's a mongol , you know , when you 're looking at them , and then I was looking at the nurses and waiting for everyone to say something , and nobody said nothing .
51 No , let them say something and nobody said anything at all .
52 Here we are each year we have a huge celebration of the devil and nobody says a thing .
53 First , out of all the responses made , only two participants stated that their attendance on the course had not been worthwhile and none said that the course should be discontinued .
54 They cringed away and none said a word .
55 Bonn officials last night played down the extent of the last-minute rethink of their tactics at Strasbourg and one said that it had all been a ‘ silly misunderstanding ’ .
56 Two libraries categorically noted no central department involvement in training and one said involvement was only in the form of approval required for all external courses :
57 They stood looking about for a waiter and one said in a loud voice : ‘ How do we attract attention ? ’
58 Suddenly , they let him down and one said , ‘ This guy does n't know what we are talking about or he would not ask , ‘ Who is he ? ’ '
59 His mates nodded and one said , ‘ I agree with George , I 've never known such a feeling of evil and I am not risking my neck for anyone . ’
60 the the two brothers that went away and they were driving a car and one said to the other , watch what you 're doing and the other said to him , but I 'm not driving so .
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