Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] and [pron] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway when the time came to , to , to stop off for short time everybody had had their turn except the union president and myself and he came to me this foreman and he said er , now John I do n't want you to think what happened between me and you will make any difference about being sent back for . |
| 2 | I do n't wan na say I 'm not going anyway , you silly bitch and I say bye and put the phone down . |
| 3 | Well , there were n't so many old people then when we came here we were classed as one of the oldest people because er they were all very young people and you were talking about Dame Leah Manning and she came to me one day and she said we 're going to have a problem on the town because it 's a very young town . |
| 4 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 5 | That were what she said to her that day and she says to you , if you carry on I 'm gon na have you put in that orphan 's home . |
| 6 | He gave her some money and they said goodbye . |
| 7 | She tells them what she wants , she said er one , Fred said something to her one week and she said , well you know , you can get some sirloin , she says I like sirloin and I like it with fat . |
| 8 | Do you know I calculate , I went on to him other night and I says you 've only nine week |
| 9 | And he , my father reminded him last night and he said yeah he would have them by tomorrow morning . |
| 10 | So I said , well come on you 've got ta be reasonable with me so I spoke to him last week and he says , look you did n't have one last year so I 'll give you two . |
| 11 | And say he 's round about the fortyish age and we spoke to him last week and I said you got a job yet ? |
| 12 | He said , but he said it does n't give us the excuse of not paying the invoices on time , and he said erm I have warned him for it this morning and he said he will process it , and he said the cheque will be in the post here on Monday . |
| 13 | we were only thinking about it this morning and I says I would n't mind a break , you know , like , cos , I mean aunty Mary 's always inviting us , and , and we were talking about the cat |
| 14 | ‘ I remember pointing at it one day and he said , ‘ Well you have n't got one at all , yours is broken . ' ’ |
| 15 | when Mikie was here and you were doing nights , and he called us one day and I said it 's not six o'clock yet he said you 're |
| 16 | You said er , I told , I told him I was fed up with the General Secretary of this union that had n't given us any backing and you said sorry Phil , but I 'm not the General Secretary . |