Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] i say to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So say if I said to you , well if and I said to you , Well what could I do ? |
| 2 | What where are you I 've missed that actually the the quite interesting just to briefly ask you about th erm When we s when I saw you last time , you were telling me something about actually erm a bit about yourself how what kind of person actually saying , you know , personality , what kind of things Wh how would you actually describe yourself ? say if I said to you , Erm what kind of person are you ? |
| 3 | I do n't know because I said to you oh I had a super view |
| 4 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
| 5 | And she 's asked us to go and stay and I said to John I Would n't stay in that bed again |
| 6 | Get , and I mean like I said to you today you 've still got your cough . |
| 7 | Yeah , it 's the , it 's the with the word natural is n't it that er you know people often use the word natural to mean good and right and therefore something you should do , but of course no not always I mean if I said to you death is natural , nobody here would think I was advocating suicide or that er we should n't have hospitals to try and save people 's lives I mean er when you say death is natural , what you mean is death is one of those things that we just have to put up with , we 'd rather we did n't but we 're all gon na have to face it in the end , some of us sooner than others er but erm but there we are . |
| 8 | Never ever had half as much wage as I really should 've had and I say to that 's never bothered me . |
| 9 | I said to go in and see and I said to him go and see the bear , and with that Dave knocked on the door . |
| 10 | Gauge people 's reaction you know as I said to you earlier are you with that Mike because of all I had contact and I thought I saw you |
| 11 | ‘ Like as I said to the General , miss , the young gentleman 'll have to be worse afore he 's better . ’ |
| 12 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 13 | But they 're all well I went and I said to them I 'd forgotten my essays , my room number , the lot ! |
| 14 | So I either have it in the kitchen or I go and I say to them do you want a cup of tea ? |
| 15 | But you know I think if I say to her hand it in week four then |
| 16 | But anyway I gave , it 's fifty P I gave the lass who was selling it a pound you see and she said here you are waiting to give me my change , I said no , no and she said and I said to her I said you know you need it more than I do and she she got tears in her eyes and I I thought I mean I I do n't know if I can articulate this properly . |
| 17 | I was going to bingo and I said and I said to her well we 'll go and pick Sue 's mother up and we 'll pick you up and all and she went the Empire , I went the Corn Exchange but that 's beside the point . |
| 18 | Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | See if I said to my mum and dad I 'm stopping at Hannah 's tonight she 'll say is Emma stopping with her and I 'll say yes . |