Example sentences of "[conj] i say to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she starts listening to that I say to her , ’ Hey , why do n't you listen to Bad Company or Led Zeppelin or something decent for a change ? ’ |
| 2 | I hear some people in court and I say to myself ‘ I know why you are not here every day ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And I say to myself , what a long way they 've got to go . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | And I say to him : ‘ Shut up , memorize it , get a hundred marks and stay out of trouble ’ ’ |
| 7 | I am delighted that the Minister of State , Foreign and Commonwealth Office , my hon. Friend the Member for Watford ( Mr. Garel-Jones ) , who is one of the most influential Ministers in the discussions , is here today , and I say to him and to others that I want Ministers to be more positive . |
| 8 | And I say to him I do n't know whether you realize that costs water costs money to heat that water . |
| 9 | ’ People come in and say to me that when BR is privatised you wo n't have a job and I say to them when BR is privatised you wo n't have a train . |
| 10 | ‘ I just show the prisoners a picture of an aborted baby and I say to them if I had done that to a baby I deserve to be here , but what I am trying to do is prevent it happening . ’ |
| 11 | And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . |
| 12 | So I either have it in the kitchen or I go and I say to them do you want a cup of tea ? |
| 13 | And I say to your father , I say you will kill 'er ! |
| 14 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 15 | Okay , if I say to somebody , erm , Alex , you 're very responsible , okay , Karen I think you 're very flexible , erm , Tony , you 're very , erm , very reliable , , I mean , in is , in isolation , what do they , do they mean anything ? |
| 16 | But you know I think if I say to her hand it in week four then |
| 17 | But if er if I 'm s if I say to him you 're not , you 're not eating properly , sit up and , you know , pu bring your plate near to you |
| 18 | If I say to you that the typical buyer of your product is the wife of a coal miner , living in Yorkshire , with three children under ten , with a council flat , no car but a colour TV , you can start to deduce a lot about her way of life and , perhaps , her approach to the sort of product you have to sell . |
| 19 | That 's what I 'm saying , if , if , if , a a we hope you 're never in the situation but if you was describing that man , try and describe that man as honestly , honestly and as best as you can do n't say , if I say to you oh did he have jeans on ? |
| 20 | If I say to you what colour w was his hair and you go I ca n't remember , sorry . |
| 21 | If I say to you , I want you to do this sort of ten take away three add four in brackets , so you 'd add the three and four , get seven , ten take away seven , three . |
| 22 | . If I take the same example , waiver of premium , erm , and I 'm relating to knowledge that I will have got through the plan your future document , if I use Andrew again if I may , if I say to you , Andrew , erm , you explained earlier that erm , if you 're off work through ill-health , your employer will actually pay you for six months , and then it stops . |
| 23 | If I say to you behaviourism is about di dum di dum and I did but obviously it did n't sink in at the time . |
| 24 | If I say to you , Sarah I 'd like a few words with you . |
| 25 | If I say to you do you think that 's through |
| 26 | But if , if I say to you no I 'm sorry Chris that 's through |
| 27 | You know very often a parent , if a parent senses a child it 's partly in the interests of reality you know , like I say to my younger son you know , look if I buy you a third Big Mac , let's face it , you wo n't be able to eat it . |
| 28 | But I say to him , very nicely , because I very seldom have the courage to be rude , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've gone to bed . ’ |
| 29 | Well this is where Michael is a he would rather , I mean when I say to him can I just do some work on you calc I say , no , cos you are not doing any work , the calculator 's doing the work . |
| 30 | you follow me , now when I say to you story book stay , eh er , I say your story close , right away you said I 've done that |