Example sentences of "and [pron] say [prep] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And nothing to say to anyone else either . |
| 2 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 3 | One thing I struck me this week there 's a new regulation as regard punctures on tyres because I had this completely flat tyre and a whole new set of tyres and I said to him well ca n't you mend it , ca n't you put an inner tube in like I I 've done before cos there was a nail in it you see . |
| 4 | They did work in er two worked in two different quarries but within a week or a fortnight that young lad approached one of our members and said he 's sorry that he 'd ever gone back and I said to him well come back and join us and forget it all . |
| 5 | one and we 'd had a chat for a long , long time and I said to him afterwards , I was able to understand everything he said ! |
| 6 | And I said to her well I 'll have to go on a eating binge . |
| 7 | I was going to bingo and I said and I said to her well we 'll go and pick Sue 's mother up and we 'll pick you up and all and she went the Empire , I went the Corn Exchange but that 's beside the point . |
| 8 | And I said to her well every time I goes over I either takes children a few groceries . |
| 9 | and I said to her well will a cheque do from the Halifax tomorrow . |
| 10 | and I said to her well do n't she does n't , she does n't too shy |
| 11 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 12 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 13 | If all these people are doing the same job officially in the real world we know that some people are more proficient than others that in some things or others , can you see how quickly go down that line and you say to yourself well Mr A you know he 's got all those there great but there are a few gaps . |
| 14 | And she said to her afterwards she said oh ! |
| 15 | Mary had already pushed the soup pan onto the heart of the fire , and she said to him now , Get me the thermos , will you , Master Joe , and the picnic basket out of the bottom cupboard . ’ |
| 16 | dear oh dear , and she said to me well they can get these crook locks , they 've only got to a , they 've only got to bend the steering wheel , I said will |
| 17 | And they said to her now , not to insure it . |
| 18 | ‘ I would write about forty , and he said to me once : ‘ I always skip the first twenty because they 're not very good ! ’ ’ |
| 19 | They finished skimming and he said to her softly : |