Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] i say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She opened her eyes and I said , ‘ You can beat this again ’ . |
| 2 | lighting on the ceiling , he 's got four speakers and I said look what , what 's happening is the , the sound from that particular sound from that |
| 3 | tuned it in to the four channels and I said what about video |
| 4 | that they had n't but schools , particularly high schools and I said well we were very interested as part of the the programme here because it was community erm not geography , because she 's a geographer and she says the geography side of it 's fine she will use information that the children collect for her benefit , but she 'll also use us you know , to define the information but she |
| 5 | ‘ It was an attempt to get bigger ratings but I said Boon would have to stay with ordinary social issues or I was out . ’ |
| 6 | come up mum 's with the , and he snatched my handbag and he took the keys , he said that copper has got no rights to tell him to hand over them keys to me , I said what and he snatched them out of my handbag and I 've got no rights to my own house keys and I said what rights have I got to do , down his flat and collect half of my stuff back then ? |
| 7 | No I , I wanted built them wardrobes and I said now Monty whatever you fucking need I 'll get |
| 8 | He was nosing along the shelves and I said oh ! |
| 9 | ‘ I straightened my back , and I walked down the stairs to my parents and I said goodbye to them and to the servants lined up on the front steps . |
| 10 | I feel like a worker in Stalinist Russia denouncing his comrades but I say , ‘ Well , I thought of a couple of friends of mine … ’ |
| 11 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 12 | We 've been in a couple of times and I said that I wanted a chaise you see ooh I got this erm one for Victorian one it 's very nice , and lovely warm you know , the legs anyway it was one one thousand three hundred you see , so I thought , oh I said well I did n't wan na |
| 13 | I mean I er er I mean I just do n't know how you , you begin and end with this actually I mean I really do n't and I mean I think quite frankly if Hydro Electric were to go out and say okay , we will fund the purchase of twenty houses four bedrooms each for the homeless right I would have thought in terms of doing something I mean I walk round Princes Street and I see those poor sods and I say to myself |
| 14 | Now I got one lot of fruit juices and I said to go and get some more and there were six empty on the thing then I chucked them in and then there were another six empty like . |
| 15 | I just , I just got seven films and I said well if they Friday if I do n't , well |
| 16 | Nowadays wanting to work on Saturdays and I said right I 've had enough Friday . |
| 17 | and er , I said what you mean Charlie , cor all dog 's mess all over the place , I said it is n't , I , I said have you ever been and he said no I , I said well there you are , I said if you have n't been I said you do n't know what it 's like , I said you 're talking about some old girl that lives on , in Little Sandhurst , who 's got a thing about dogs and I said kicking up a lot of fuss about it , but I said the women 's a dam liar |
| 18 | there was a big discussion about the standard report , it wo n't cover five years and I said it does n't have to cover five years , it never has done it 's only covered four cos we what we do in year eleven is different anyway . |
| 19 | She was saying four years four years and I said I 've not had it four years |
| 20 | So we 've been down there a few times but I said to you did n't I ? |
| 21 | Because , if I go to two different mathematicians and I say erm , can you work these sums for me ? |
| 22 | I was reading the things and I said it was a bigger upstairs is , are bigger than the downstairs . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm opinionated and people ask me things and I say them . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The worst one was when we were doing one on Women 's Studies and I said look , let's have your title and let's have some kind of format . |
| 26 | him something else for Christmas , something smaller and I made him a model out of matchsticks and I said this is the prototype |
| 27 | I says you 're picking holes , you 're picking holes and I says I 'll tell you what , that declaration of intent is last year 's declaration of intent . |
| 28 | You come into the building society and you 're , you 've got no money in the world and you owe twenty pounds and I say oh we 'll take that away , we 'll take that minus twenty away . |
| 29 | It 's not about violence or brutal police officers and I say that because for the last few years there 's been an awful lot of publicity about the particularly in the Metropolitan area and I ask you you will have read some terrible things about certain police officers . |
| 30 | Er the , the original question I had is whether if they do n't go ahead er whether we would have to have new primary legislation to revert to the current Euro constituencies and I said no we would n't because there is a commencement date , there is a commencement date that er the er er Home Secretary would not put into effect until he was er quite certain that all the countries were on the start line and the the and and the new and the new constituencies er could actually come properly into effect and the six extra members would be elected . |