Example sentences of "[conj] i say [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'll , I 'll try and get down on Monday and see what she says and I say you know she must do three hours on Mondays . |
| 2 | ‘ And I say you get out now . ’ |
| 3 | when you come and stay with me , she , anyway she , she would n't , well in the end I just said that 's it I 've had enough I switched the car off and grabbed hold of her I said , frogmarched her in the car I said come on , I 'm going to bed , Rudy 's ready for bed I said I want you with me , so that I can keep me eye on you if I have to sit up all bloody night , of course when she was with me I picked her up and got her strong again and I say you have to be worth it , you 're better off without him then she come round and then she 'd say I know I am I just go down |
| 4 | When I call out your number you jump up and you say , if you are and I say you say . |
| 5 | So that 's er I mean you probably know we do , I do a talk erm I call it a story rather than a talk , and I say I hope it 's interesting as a story . |
| 6 | Tony Benn to Jimmy Young when asked about Neil Kinnock 's Radio 2 debut I 'M asked how I feel when they get the questions wrong and lose everything , and I say I try not to laugh . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm asked how I feel when they get the questions wrong and lose everything and I say I try not to laugh . ’ |
| 8 | Er and I say I want to come on the on the phone and I want to talk to James , I want to put him straight , I tell him that we 're not doing this and I want to tell him that we actually erm know that er the people will be concerned about us giving ourselves a huge pay rise . |
| 9 | ‘ If I say we know your brother has been with you , then you can believe we do know . |
| 10 | And if I say we think you know where he is now , then you can believe we know that too . ’ |
| 11 | If I say you do n't know you do n't know . |
| 12 | ‘ My line of work pays well , but I suppose if I say I prefer to live simply , too , you 'll call me a liar , ’ Paige challenged indignantly . |
| 13 | My pension , if I did n't have it if I say I do n't want the lump sum , the twenty one grand . |
| 14 | If I say I have enough clothes , I have enough clothes , ’ she finished . |
| 15 | Yet if I say I love him , she thought , watching his capable hands on the wheel , I may frighten him away . |
| 16 | ‘ What if I say I want to stay a while longer ? ’ she asked teasingly . |
| 17 | ‘ Supposing I say I want to look at you , to hear you talk in your funny English voice ? |
| 18 | I mean our motion you can do with it what you will but like I say we have actually aimed to actually get something which recognises all party support for the Children Act and recognises concern about the funding . |
| 19 | and , like I say I mean |
| 20 | Erm , I did n't , like I say I know people who erm especially with about ourselves or anybody else . |
| 21 | alright , yeah I am o I mean I 'm not alright , I feel very dizzy , like I say I feel I feel a bit kind of heady you know but I will go and have a check up . |
| 22 | Dave : I 'd always tended to shy away from them , like , because like I say I think it 's the fear of the unknown , what you 've been told . |
| 23 | Cos I say I know that I know Elizabeth Terrace well . |
| 24 | So that is a possi I was just wondering which one it was cos I say I know some of them are a bit you know |
| 25 | No but I say I think , you know i is , it may be well worthwhile us carrying around leaflets which gives an idea of what the current limits are but yeah we 'll , we 'll find out about that . |
| 26 | But I say I believe in in one respect alright , she 's got the car she can whip in and out but I do believe in another respect she 's got to the point where she ca n't be bothered ! |
| 27 | I speak for everyone here when I say we wish you all the best , and hope that for you ( pause ) ‘ the best is yet to come ’ . |
| 28 | When I say we 've got some trouble , we do , but it 's not like the trouble we had half an hour ago , when in fact there were three lines , sections of which there were no trains on at all . |
| 29 | When I say I 've never , in my life , sold a telephone number or refused to help a fellow journalist , he says it is ‘ union policy ’ , and that I ‘ ca n't be a real journalist ’ if I find this surprising . |
| 30 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |