Example sentences of "[noun sg] i say [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said no staying at , mum , she said well bring mum I said I do n't think her a her her scene . |
| 2 | Of course I said I did . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well , how would you feel if at some point in the future I said I wanted to go back to Australia ? ’ |
| 4 | He says I 'm a granddad I says you look it as well . |
| 5 | aggro I said no money no cars ! you 'll get a car I said I know you will he said ! |
| 6 | And although I 'm not I enjoyed the piping , I enjoyed But I was not at peace I says I says , you 've even ruined me for this . |
| 7 | I did say to him once that er I said if you do n't want that ivy I said you chuck it out , chop it down and throw it over my side cos it 's my responsibility |
| 8 | I said and that 's why cos Paul said to me , he said , I never hear you moan , I said look you wo n't hear me moan because it 's not that I enjoy the job I hate the job I said I hate the work , and I find it hard work but at the end of the day on a Friday , I know that six o'clock in the morning on a Friday I can go up to the Nationwide Anglia , slip my card in there and I know there 's gon na be a couple of hundred of quid in there with the |
| 9 | I said it 's no good asking my opinion I said it looks alright to me . |
| 10 | Erm , oh I have got something else , which is music , erm , at the last meeting I said I 've been talking to Simon from the Queen 's Hall , about the idea of doing pre-concert notes |
| 11 | Because you did not meet the deadline and you 've just told me that deadline means the day I said I wanted it . |
| 12 | Yes , the time when it has to come in , the day I say I want to collect it , now you might need to say to yourself , oh dear , Mrs said the deadline was , have I met it ? |
| 13 | Oh Carole came in er Saturday night I says you 've no skirt on looking for John , I said |
| 14 | Tramp I said I did n't , just , I did n't say I could n't but I do n't want to . |
| 15 | Yeah I got the coat on this morning I said I said hopefully |
| 16 | Now coming back to the objective I say it leaves you on a high note then rather than the and that 's all I 'm gon na say tell them what you 're gon na tell them then tell them then tell them what you 've told them . |
| 17 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 18 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 19 | when you come and stay with me , she , anyway she , she would n't , well in the end I just said that 's it I 've had enough I switched the car off and grabbed hold of her I said , frogmarched her in the car I said come on , I 'm going to bed , Rudy 's ready for bed I said I want you with me , so that I can keep me eye on you if I have to sit up all bloody night , of course when she was with me I picked her up and got her strong again and I say you have to be worth it , you 're better off without him then she come round and then she 'd say I know I am I just go down |
| 20 | I do n't know , I want to find out if I do really believe what I say I do and if I want the kind of life I say I do , and the only way to do that seems to be to get right away and try a straight career for a bit , just to see how I react . ’ |
| 21 | Steve , I always said to Steven if we have a kid I said I hope it looks like me I said but I hope it got your temperament come out exactly wrong . |
| 22 | When the honourable gentleman said I gave no information I said I intended to talk about jobs and in this country we believe , we believe that er there are three things very important a at this forthcoming summit . |
| 23 | it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost |
| 24 | it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost |
| 25 | and course with that Ron on the , of course you know , he tells jokes and some of them are a little bit crude , but , they take all in good part , you know , I said to dad I said you do n't always , he 's that dry |
| 26 | I am not anticipating that anybody in this room will do it the way I say I do it . |
| 27 | We talking about this and I was saying about coming from construction I says I 've says I 've to go up the cut like |
| 28 | yeah so I chased off after it one of the little boxes had come loose and carted it back to the house I said your going to be a Christmas decoration whether you like it or not ! |
| 29 | I hardly date write anything about the goats as there are so many strongly held views on management that each time I say I did something one way , lots of readers write and tell us how completely wrong that way is ! |
| 30 | He says you and your politics , I says that 's right , me and my politics I says I do n't think a lot of notice of them , me . |