Example sentences of "[verb] say i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone has said I 'm a well-known gangland figure , and I probably ran into an ambush when I tried to return home . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've come to say I 'm sorry , ’ she blurted . |
| 3 | Whereas if I 'd said I was coming with Kevin it would n't have been . |
| 4 | I would if I 'd said I was going to sleep , stay with Hannah |
| 5 | ( 7° ) I 'm writing to say I 'm having a marvellous time here The gestural usage must be glossed a little differently , as " the pragmatically given space , proximal to speaker 's location at CT , that includes the point or location gesturally indicated " . |
| 6 | I came to say I was sorry . |
| 7 | I kept seeing her slamming into the car , and lying in the road , and then I saw all those black nuns floating round her and lifting her up so that her head lolled back , and I was there , wanting to say I was sorry , and her eyes were open and blank and staring right through me . |
| 8 | Have I phoned to say I 'm coming ? |
| 9 | A telegram arrived saying I was booked on a flight the next day , to be filmed at Pinewood Studios for the title sequences of the James Bond film ‘ A View to a Kill ’ . |
| 10 | Apparently he was talking to someone called Helen , and used the words , ‘ You 've got to say I was with you ’ . ' |
| 11 | After a three-and-a-half-hour inquiry , an angry Eddery emerged to fume : ‘ I 've got to say I 'm unhappy with the outcome . |
| 12 | But listen , when we go in now , I 'm going to say I 'm not well and then I 'll go up to bed . |
| 13 | Well , well she was , she was standing outside , I mean I looked at her this morning and I 've loo so I 've sort of looked at her , and I was going to speak to her and then this fella walked up and I thought , I , I mean I could n't gauge whether , and I mean my , I , I was thinking what I was going to say anyway , I was going to say er you know sa is it Paula so you perhaps do n't remember me but I , I , and then I was going to say I 'm Adrian , Adrian |
| 14 | I mean , for example , I mean I 'm not saying this is an association but you might find in your dream , if you look to say I 'm back at school , then your association would be but I am at school now , the London School of Economics , do you see what I mean ? |
| 15 | Being one of her biggest fans I would like to say I am sick and tired of all the criticism that she receives . |
| 16 | I would n't like to say I was born a naturalist , but I can remember collecting fossils when I was three . |
| 17 | I 'd like to say I was a |
| 18 | I 'd like to say I 'm one of those people who waited seven years to have my daughter , who 's now eight by the way , but I mean erm I was one of those people when I heard about IV coming in I thought this was a great thing ! |
| 19 | Er I have a love of country , I know I 'm er English , I do n't like to say I 'm British , I live and was born in England . |
| 20 | I 've moved back into and er I 'd just like to say I 'm sure on behalf of all of you and the people of that we see this as a tremendous move and thank you for the work you 've put in . |
| 21 | I would like to say I 'm deeply grateful to councillor Elaine who wrote a wonderful letter to the director of transportation which has formed the basis of my speech . |
| 22 | Bobby thinks he 's fat , he 's obsessed with being fat he keeps saying I 'm too fat , I 'm too fat |
| 23 | ‘ But I wish people would stop saying I 'm anorexic . |
| 24 | Now I know said I was but I give the impression from that if you shake hands with them you should count your fingers afterwards |
| 25 | Friends were surprised at how often I would stay on their floors after an evening out , and I would alternate between trips to my parents ' house in Wales and visits to friends from pre-army days , who I would surprise by telephoning to say I was on leave from the regular army . |
| 26 | To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’ |
| 27 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 28 | ‘ Anybody watching that would have said I was a rapist and you were being raped . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Could have said I was eccentric , ’ argued gently . |
| 30 | ‘ I just called to say I 'm happy and I mean it from the bottom of my heart , ’ said Stevie . |