Example sentences of "[conj] say i [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 Cos I can pick out his stuff or say I do n't like the look of that one and he 'll , he 'll chuck it in the back .
2 By one second , two seconds , they are starting to perspire and they will have to say something unless you get a real swine to sell people , one we sell to , two , the one that says I know the stuff a hope in hell
3 You 're free to you know the seventy five percent rather than saying I 've got thirty four or something like that .
4 Other than to say I 've already mentioned er in respect of Mr 's point about his view that no new sites would come forward at forty one thousand , well quite clearly a substantial number of new sites in the residue will come forward , these will be new sites .
5 They do n't have a problem at all it does n't seem to er be part of their daily lives er , that said I do have a farmer of my acquaintance , when I say my acquaintance he happens to be my son-in-law .
6 A lot of women write and say I wish I 'd met you 20 years ago .
7 We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on .
8 You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing .
9 Sheena , can I be the odd one out and say I 've been in love with one man for forty five years , I have n't heard any body saying any thing very nice about that , I would like to say its wonderful .
10 If anyone takes the mickey I turn round and say I 've got a daughter . "
11 It 's so easy to just write the slip and say I 've sold my car to mister so and so .
12 and she 'll go and get the milk out and say I 've just got myself a glass of milk mum , oh right , okay not even aware that she 's gone out to the fridge you know , fair enough we say ah , you do n't do you ?
13 well but the important thing is she 's engaged to be married I would reckon by the time she 's about twenty-six she 'll be looking for time out to have a family but by that time hopefully she 's and when she 's thirty-two or thirty-three can come back into the business and say I 've got a and the door opens that much more easily
14 Get on the phone and phone up Currys and say I 've got this model freezer
15 Why do n't you just come right out and say I look ridiculous ?
16 I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in .
17 ‘ You bring those girls here — girls who have shared your bed — and say I have mistaken you . ’
18 But if I write back and say I have n't actually had any wages since the seventeenth of January I might get it backdated from then .
19 I said to Angela , eh , I said , if you go for that job you ca n't stop in middle of ceremony and say I have to go out granddad .
20 But you can take it back and say I want my money ?
21 All I have to do is go and see her and say I want to know see each one ticked .
22 But is it up to them to actually go to D S S and say I want a payment now ?
23 Put your foot down and say I want that car whe if you do n't , if you do n't do it now
24 And say I want Rice Crispies You pour the Rice Crispies no , no , Cornflakes I do n't want no sugar on them today .
25 If you phone in t erm the Talking Yellow Pages and say I need a conference centre in Derbyshire , they 'll probably tell you that one .
26 Erm so that 's a figure if you like you have have up here in your noodle and say I need to go for that anyway .
27 Nobody will try anything on the desk in front of you , and say I need that now .
28 ‘ But there is nothing intrinsically wrong with Diana 's chart , whereas I can look at Charles 's chart and say I think there is something that prevents him from making the throne .
29 I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made .
30 You know my mum came up , she comes up and says I know this already you know , mum came up , saying ,
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