Example sentences of "[subord] i say [pron] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And anyway yesterday morning she said oh she said I 'm in luck today so I said what 's the matter then and she said . |
| 2 | ‘ I could n't find the words to tell Dorothy , so I said it was a wrong number . |
| 3 | I would be lying to you if I said it was the same now . |
| 4 | ‘ If I say it 's a lullaby , then it 's a lullaby . ’ |
| 5 | If I say it is a work of art , it is work of art . |
| 6 | If I say it was wonderfully exciting , you will wonder when I am going to do it again , and if I say it was a mistake , which it was , you are going to ask me under what circumstances it might not have been a mistake . ’ |
| 7 | like I say there 's no rush cos we have n't got to go , you have n't got school tomorrow |
| 8 | What just cos I said he 's a bit of an idiot ? |
| 9 | Cos I said there 's no way I 'd sleep in it myself ! |
| 10 | And I said well look I said , I 've got to come because I said there 's no way anybody I said I would n't do it myself , I would n't put anybody in those beds . |
| 11 | ‘ When I said it was a pity Connie died , you said something about it upsetting Muldoon and Cabrillo at first . |
| 12 | When I said I was a feminist he became abrupt , as if his time was precious , and told me he could n't help me . |
| 13 | They were referred to the clinic by their doctors in Greece or the Middle East , and looked horrified when I said there was no lift and they had to walk down seventeen stairs to the basement . |
| 14 | ‘ What I meant when I said you were an asset , Matt , is that you provide the sexual fillip which Cadogan 's would otherwise lack . ’ |
| 15 | I know I speak for us all when I say there 's no one here who would n't like to be in your shoes tomorrow . ’ |
| 16 | You must have control of your class , sometimes if you do n't , under , when I say he 's a weak teacher I do n't mean he 's a bad teacher . |
| 17 | When I say it 's the sort of answer you want I mean it 's the sort that might help you ! |
| 18 | When I say it was a Government decision I 'm not speaking politically because whoever had 've won the last election whether it be Liberal Democrats Labour or Conservative all three parties were committed to reorganizing local government . |
| 19 | Well I suppose you could erm I suspect it would be cheaper than but it would n't actually increase your pension per se at the end of the day because it 's as I said it 's a separate you know it 's a separate sort of erm income to your pension lump sum . |
| 20 | A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here . |
| 21 | So because it er as I said it was a relief to her i were a relief to us as children because then we were n't living in in terror of him coming home and you know causing the bother . |
| 22 | Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time . |
| 23 | I heard his name mentioned once … but as I said there was no coverage really . |
| 24 | Er as I say they were a U K company . |
| 25 | But , as I say she 's a modern outlook is a difference from the Queen , I think Queen Elizabeth |
| 26 | That 's alright though because it does n't , I 'm not worried tonight because you can lay in tomorrow cos as I say there 's no playschool or gymnastics is there ? |
| 27 | But as as I say there 's no reason why |
| 28 | I do n't think they could say anything , as I say there was no hosepipe ban then anyway so |
| 29 | Well , it was actually started by a few railway men , th right opposite Street there used to be hand laundry , and then there was a row of houses , from there , running up to the corner of Street where the club stands originally , but in the beginning it was just a row of small houses , and it started with a few railway men having a meet holding the meetings in this house , in these houses , and I 've got very dim memories of how it actually started but it was a real event when they were first , before they actually built the club it was run in the row of houses that ran from up Street as I say there was a little hand laundry corner of Street heading onto Street on the left hand side was the greengrocers , and that , they kept that greengrocers for as long as I can remember . |
| 30 | Well as I say it is a different company now . |