Example sentences of "say i [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll take it back , say I ca n't do it . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't know how , I , I as I say I ca n't figure it out how they work it out though because I mean are they |
| 3 | I say I ca n't see you saying right he 's died tom today , out tomorrow can you ? |
| 4 | And they say I ca n't remember it just happened so quick that I ca n't remember , they have been unconscious for a , it may be just a split second , it 's affected the brain , they are concussed . |
| 5 | No , I say I wo n't leave it now , if I get much more of it then it 's the environmental health ! |
| 6 | It do n't matter whether you say I wo n't say anything cos it always comes back . |
| 7 | If you say I wo n't hit you and put your hands behind your back what do you reckon I 'm gon na do ? |
| 8 | Erm n I as I say I could n't see her the bed it was it was a duvet and . |
| 9 | She says I would n't want anyone else to go through this . |
| 10 | Martin Richards of the Freight Transport Association says I would n't fancy his chances . |
| 11 | Well she says if you 'd of come to Sandra 's she 'd make you something , I says I know Eileen and so would I as well , I says I would n't have anybody coming in and bringing them sandwiches , I mean if somebody knocked on the , on our door one day from Queensbury and we did n't know they were coming and they 'd brought sandwiches with them |
| 12 | Then at the bottom of the page erm , he says I am in the history department and he says I shall probably tell you several more times and indeed he does in the play . |
| 13 | Q I 'd really love some oomph in my hair and my hairdresser says I 'll only get it with a perm . |
| 14 | It says I ca n't give anything away but that the show is show 's not a load of old cosh tonight |
| 15 | so I er what you call it , I took it back and I says er there 's summat wrong with this one , I says it 's got a line or whatever it is , I says I ca n't get it off . |
| 16 | she er she says I ca n't fasten my beads . |
| 17 | I wish I could love , but she says I ca n't help you . |
| 18 | I says I ca n't find them , I found them . |
| 19 | I tell Mr Jackson that , but he says I ca n't take him with me cos they do n't let us keep pets at Combe Court . |
| 20 | And he says , he says er he says I will not move my car and I do n't get told anything , you know , I 'm not doing nothing for you , you do n't belong in this country and all this stuff |
| 21 | the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian . |
| 22 | She said I just went in there and she said I could n't stand any more , she said do you know Joy she said you 're one of the nicest people I know , she said I tell you what I 've never heard in my life two people stab somebody like you 're being stabbed , she says I could n't sit there any more |
| 23 | She had done all the house out and got all the presents and everything , but then they says I could n't have him or see him . |
| 24 | I 'd asked my mum and dad if I could go to a boarding school — the one in Edinburgh Andy was at , for example — but they 'd said I would n't like it and besides it would cost a lot of money . |
| 25 | Debbie had called at the doctor on her the way back and the doctor had said I ca n't see anything wrong with your spine |
| 26 | I 'm not saying I ca n't do it . |
| 27 | ‘ Are you saying I ca n't play my music ? ’ |
| 28 | I 'm not lying , I 'm not saying I 'm , I 'm addressing you know , a national convention , or I 'm going to see the Queen , or whatever , I 'm just saying I ca n't see you that day . |
| 29 | Yeah , I said I would probably get you some . |
| 30 | I said I would n't give him . |