Example sentences of "[conj] say i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I can pick out his stuff or say I do n't like the look of that one and he 'll , he 'll chuck it in the back . |
| 2 | Other than to say I 've already mentioned er in respect of Mr 's point about his view that no new sites would come forward at forty one thousand , well quite clearly a substantial number of new sites in the residue will come forward , these will be new sites . |
| 3 | I got Jake to lie , and say I went away on holiday earlier than I did . ’ |
| 4 | and she 'll go and get the milk out and say I 've just got myself a glass of milk mum , oh right , okay not even aware that she 's gone out to the fridge you know , fair enough we say ah , you do n't do you ? |
| 5 | But if I write back and say I have n't actually had any wages since the seventeenth of January I might get it backdated from then . |
| 6 | I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in . |
| 7 | At this sort of a reunion , one looks to another and says I do n't look sixty , do I ? |
| 8 | The most consistently bearish — well he is a Brit — Stephen Smith of PaineWebber , says that until recently , saying you did n't like IBM was ‘ like standing up and saying I do n't like apple pie . ’ |
| 9 | She wants this doll , well Julie got it yesterday and said I phoned up , she said you 've got ta listen to this she said I 've just put a battery in when you want to hear it cry . |
| 10 | I looked at him puzzled and said I did n't have a clue what he was talking about . |
| 11 | I first heard about it after the game at Liverpool last Saturday and I stormed in and said I do n't want to get away . |
| 12 | And I think this has been proved you know that ask when people have changed their minds and said I do n't know , that this is what has happened in the last er ten to fifteen years erm and which makes me feel that once again I think that advances can only be evolutionary erm I think that erm , I do n't know if you , anybody saw Joseph Conrad 's erm spy story on the television ? |
| 13 | And said I do n't know . |
| 14 | But when I spoke to Dr last week I mean he just held his hands up and said i do n't know . |
| 15 | And I remember this time in Winners when he , he picked them up and looked at them and said I do n't think these are the right ones for my car and that , that 's why I thought |
| 16 | Neil poor boy he had a driving lesson yesterday came home and said I do n't want to do any more ! |
| 17 | Well I actually went back and said I do n't think it 's going to cost anything , I told him original twenty four thou- , and I 've halved it too about twelve thou . |
| 18 | Well my there 's never any please , there 's never any thank you , there 's nothing , I mean there are are n't they , when he was saying that all he 's done for her and they virtually like turned their back on them , he got out in all those winds and weather were n't it , but , we built there and he come out apparently and said I do n't want you having anything else to do with my kids , |
| 19 | you see Sister makes all these arrangements , it 's she who does so many of the arrangements , she has made the arrangements about there being no coffee , several people have come to me and said I do n't know why you 've got to stop coffee because we can always go over and have lunch anyway , you know , er after the coffee , but Jean came to me she said look I 'm giving you this , and she gave me three pounds , she said I would much rather that was put into this , there your charity thing than take it across the hall , she said my Margaret wo n't go over there any more , because they , they say , you know , put in for your lunch what it would cost |
| 20 | Not much help to you , I know , but why should I fib and say I walked in ? |
| 21 | And you can it 's alright , it 'll only ask and say I do n't like it , put the proper one in , silly idiot . |
| 22 | Ee I said I think I 'm going to write and say I do n't know what you 're |
| 23 | In a way , it 's ended up being a good test to measure potentially good relationships against bad ones , because say I went out with someone and at a party they said , ‘ Sit on me lap , darling ’ , and then they said , ‘ Oh God , you 've only got one leg ’ — well , I 'd know they would n't be worth going out with ! |
| 24 | That is n't the same as saying I do n't know who they were . |