Example sentences of "[pron] [be] say to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am saying to you now folks become familiar with the erm depots . |
| 2 | it was chicken pox and I 'm saying to myself it 's very infectious . |
| 3 | Oh dear , and I 'm saying to myself it was chicken pox |
| 4 | that 's er that 's right , you know , and erm what I 'm saying to myself is okay , you know , er maybe it will be tiring , I 'm sure it will maybe it will be erm expensive , like take a taxi because ca n't walk , you know , erm erm okay |
| 5 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 6 | I went and got last night and I 'm saying to him , now give me your numbers . |
| 7 | That 's why I 'm saying to everyone that we should build it with two lanes and no more and so restricting the chance of it ever being a motorway . |
| 8 | No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons . |
| 9 | What I 'm saying to you is that , that we actually need to find additional money for this , because this is over our budgeted amount if we are to proceed , and I , the clerk is suggesting to us that we do proceed , because he 's concerned on our behalfs . |
| 10 | You 're putting over information on the basis that the only thing that a t an intelligent person think I 'm saying to you now , what 's going to be the effect of that on the listener ? |
| 11 | Possibly we 're looking to reduce home help hours , but this is at a time when , at the same time I 'm saying to you , we 're having problems with our S T G , our special grant for care in the community . |
| 12 | So what I 'm saying to you is , do n't go in over the top , you know , five , just a normal but a firm handshake because a man would expect it because a weak ha ha handshake can be irritating and the same thing if she is a woman |
| 13 | So what I 'm saying to you is if you like to refer to this , this will give you the clear definition of what , what 's covered in each case . |
| 14 | What I 'm saying to you is , erm I do n't expect for one minute to have a computer installed in my office , ccessdon'tw alter it to that a particular way , and |
| 15 | Now what I 'm saying to you is that there 's a big question mark as far as Goodey er report is concerned and they can talk about er the surpluses , they can talk about the trustees , but there 's no majority as far as the employees are concerned and this was the question mark that we we were saying that one of the reasons why they were saying you know that the employee should be in the minority because in the end paragraph of the summing up of the Goodey report that states quite clearly that all the responsibility and all the but the employer , now you yourself has said that er as far as the schemes and we 're talking of something in the region of a hundred and twenty eight thousand . |
| 16 | that 's what I 'm saying to you |
| 17 | cos you know roughly what close are about and you know how to close , but that , let's imagine for the sake of the discussion , that there 's a hundred different ways of closing , right , and if there 's a hundred different ways of close closing there 's bound to be thousands of variations on each close , you see what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 18 | the more you can take them to where you want them , do you understand what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 19 | and none of you are , do n't know what I 'm saying to you right |
| 20 | There is a closing sequence now the reason that you were able to close in the manner that you did with that bloke is a natural ability , but if I 've said to you to teach somebody else it you would say I can not do it , but I ca n't teach somebody else , because you 're not actually aware of the sequence that you 're working , can you see what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 21 | You see what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 22 | Do you know what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 23 | do you see what I mean , all these things , do you understand what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 24 | Relating , you form a , a bond basically between you and the customer , that 's why you sell well , cos you gel well with your customers , there 's empathy there , you 've got to come across as caring and sharing , but you 've got ta ask questions and you listen to the answers , right , you 've got to basically treat their problems as if they were your own , do you know what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 25 | but it 's got ta be in your head , you know what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 26 | I 'm not , I 'm not I 'm not putting it on you anyway mostly it 's c mainly fucking Catherine , I 'm beginning to s not like her any more the way she 's going and do n't you dare mention a word of this that I 'm saying to you |
| 27 | That 's what I 'm saying to you . |
| 28 | What I 'm saying to you is that you are |
| 29 | what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten |
| 30 | D' you hear what I 'm sayin' to you ? ’ |