Example sentences of "say [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say I was dealing with one of our gougers , I come down to [ his ] level . |
| 2 | I 'll not have any man say I was ever afraid of a sharp edge in my life ! ’ |
| 3 | Some people say I was a fool and could have made a fortune . |
| 4 | Others say I was a good judge by staying home . |
| 5 | Anyway , after what I did ter that silly ole goat at the sawmills the coppers might fink I 'm a villain an' try ter get the ole boy ter say I was there . |
| 6 | Cos say I was looking for angles and that would 've just been fifty up here would n't it . |
| 7 | A very fine thing , and you know until er until the day I left in nineteen forty two they always referred to these chaps in the forties like say I was , er a as being er , Ooh he 's a man . |
| 8 | Say I was involved with a gallery and they called me up tomorrow , and said , ‘ Alison I want you to do this painting ’ , I could just comply . |
| 9 | Not in the grocery , I suppose there would be , I mean erm as I say I was never thrilled with the clothing department and when I did get involved with the deals , er I 'm afraid I was a political animal and I would 've have been more interested in the political side . |
| 10 | I wanted to see Sabine was all right and say I was sorry . |
| 11 | It was something like ‘ Jonnson ’ but as I say I was only half interested until he started mentioning how much he loved Leeds . |
| 12 | . However , after about eighteen month at , as a yard foreman , as I say I was still branch secretary of Portobello branch , and carrying on as usual , er I put in for There were this yard inspectors job wanted at Street Station . |
| 13 | Well it 's it 's say I say I was doing my best , as it were , say that everything was going swimmingly I 'd be getting a profit of thirty pounds from Neil twenty pounds from Alan because five will go on the tea and the milk and the box of Cornflakes and the toast er twenty , thirty , that 's fifty and twenty for Paul which is seventy . |
| 14 | On one of these trips to London when I was at school , good when we went with the Brownies , I went two or three times and er , one time when I was a bit older , I mean the first time I went as I say I was only about seven , but , when I was a bit older I went again , they said if |
| 15 | And then it just depended , it 's up to you to get yourself so if you know you 're going , well say I was doing Hayes . |
| 16 | With him , well for some reason he does n't like us , well , you say I was thinking , I 've been thinking as you know this is the sort of thing that I , gets on to my mind , but I was thinking to myself well really and truly we are so honest people ourselves , we do n't go round you know and screw sort of fiddling things , I suppose it comes to hard to us when we discover other people have |
| 17 | As I say I was sitting there adding it up , a pound for this and a pound for that and your meal , a fiver for Maggie , I 'm twenty pound short off you |
| 18 | But I As I say I were young and I would n't have been paying particular attention . |
| 19 | He really you know made me feel I say I were n't sat there like I was with that fella thinking well he do n't seem to know what he 's saying anyway . |
| 20 | I 've got to think — if anything happened to me mother , say she were to pass away tonight — I 've no job and nothing coming in at all , only perhaps interest from savings which would n't keep me … |
| 21 | Say she was sure who the father was ; and working in a racing stable with thoroughbreds she would know that proving paternity was increasingly an exact science . |
| 22 | But she was emphatically not sorry for anything she 'd said , and she decided that nothing in the world would make her say she was . |
| 23 | ‘ Her friends saw her catch the bus and say she was behaving normally , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 24 | Police at Calpe , near Benidorm , say she was washing her hair when the crazed killer struck . |
| 25 | ‘ People say she was a junkie but how do they know that ? |
| 26 | They say she was no more than a skeleton . |
| 27 | People say she was lenient with me . |
| 28 | People who go to sea and dislike a thing they come out with it : I say she was a Jonah . |
| 29 | And remember , when they ask about Billie , say she was edgy , always nervous . |
| 30 | ‘ I think they just say she was beautiful , ’ said this new Xanthe Miranda had not known before , this precocious , sharp-witted little girl in the chic outfit . |