Example sentences of "[adj] and i say [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean sometimes you expect him to laugh and he does n't laugh like he says something funny and I say something funny back to him , but he does n't laugh . |
| 2 | So I went rushing round to a friend of mine who fortunately had some and I said I want to see your walking , and I was much comforted to discover that they do actually use all six legs . |
| 3 | I brought the duck I do n't want the duck so I said to her I got the duck but after good girl and she you 're alright with one thing and another and I said I told her I said I said to her when we were over there I said look , look you 're right if you like again so er warden came round |
| 4 | And I i , you know at six and I said my God he did that at Abbotsbury when he was four ! |
| 5 | So you 've got ta keep your four five six and I say it 's your box , seven eight has got to be the |
| 6 | So , she tried it on her and that and I said it 's fine . |
| 7 | and erm , she said er Pauline asked where your mother 's coffee set was , little coffee cups and all that and I said I do n't know I 've never seen one |
| 8 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
| 9 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 10 | But when I did n't put any you said why ca n't we have it with the onions any more and I said you said it gave you indigestion . |
| 11 | But when I did n't put any you said why ca n't we have it with the onions any more and I said you said it gave you indigestion . |
| 12 | So he got Times Roman headlines in , very simple layout , and he did some caps bold , and then he said to me he had done all the headlines ragged and I said you just missed one thing — centre the heads . |
| 13 | And I cal , I called Alec yesterday morning like and asked , you know I said to him there 's only one and I said it 's the last one down there like . |
| 14 | He had separate orders , each locksmith and at this time I 'd done all the ord whatsit er and this and that and the other and I said what 's next ? |
| 15 | When I had occasion to talk to the Home Secretary about this , I asked him about this and he said oh , we want it to be local and I said you mean local not region and he said yes , local and I hope my noble friend who was there will remember that when he comes to decide whether this region things ever going to get a running . |