Example sentences of "[art] [noun] and i said " in BNC.

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1 He said oh dear that really puts us in the shit and I said er well I 'm not .
2 So I phoned them up in the afternoon and I said the bicycle that my friend Mr reported yesterday afternoon is still in the bushes .
3 ‘ He made the decision and I said , ‘ Great ’ .
4 We 've just got to learn from the experience and I said to my players afterwards ‘ welcome to European football ’ . ’
5 I mean normally I do n't bother with the tokens , I mean I Anyway I paid the cheque and I said to Peter I said oh by the way what about me tokens for me for me toy I said if I get a free one of them I can give it to give it to the grandchildren .
6 Went past the pub you see , just about to reach the archway and I said Roy !
7 And I told him that you had all the gear and I said that you wanted sixteen .
8 back to the car and I said no , Rachel take it back and she said oh you 'll make it , go on in , .
9 On another occasion , she wrote : ‘ We were in the bedroom and I said to mother : ‘ What is that ? ’ , referring to an overmantel mirror .
10 What surprises me is I went into the lab and I said to Sharon you know , er I said we 've still got
11 ‘ Michael was apprehensive about the leap and I said : ‘ If you do n't feel like it , I will jump on and do it . ’
12 Just then I heard the coach and I said , " Here it comes , boys . "
13 He was nosing along the shelves and I said oh !
14 actually it was erm I forget what it was when me mother-in-law died and she used to moan about the shop and I said to Christine the time she goes down and back I mean things are dear in , but some of the things in the shop now , and then , are cheaper than down the town , so if you take your , your bus
15 And erm and I made the point that I tipped all your lot out of I said what and I had n't let them go in the classroom and I said it 's a new thing but I said they got their coats on they 're too macho to wear them that 's their problem , you know !
16 Reluctantly Elfed left the room and I said to Cis , ‘ Ritchie is your son much more than your brother , and I know how much you love each other .
17 Well she convinced me to start off with foam , you know webbing on the foam and I said well
18 can be the same inside leg measurement , but different heights , so I said yes that 's true , it 's all according how long or short you are in the body and I said my son 's short in the waist
19 ‘ She said it was the lead and I said , ‘ What , Jane ? ’
20 Exactly yes we 'll take a breathing space until the new year I mean Neil says that at the moment he 'd be quite happy to get into a job where if he was a good worker he could progress in the job and I said an what about doing your radio repairs in the evening , but he just , he said yes .
21 Neil said can I write the article and I said no fuck off .
22 Anyway , I phoned up the station and I said , you know , I 've never seen anybody on the station , is there anybody could come and have a look at this because I 'm sure we 're gon na have a fatality before long , because , in my case it 's my wife , it could be children who are playing there !
23 Stuart Chappell , the Head Warden at Clumber , answered the phone and I said , as brightly as I could , ‘ I 'm here , I 've arrived at Retford . ’
24 I said to the farmers we s you should cut grass and you get nitrates into the water and I said to the farmers er er about their slurry throwing erm a muck across the land , we know the problems that causes , I said if we came out with fertilisers which were would you buy them if it costed a bit more .
25 I was reading the things and I said it was a bigger upstairs is , are bigger than the downstairs .
26 They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back :
27 And erm she said all right and I said what do I do with them and she said I 'll put them down in the base at the back and I said all right so I went back on the shop floor just before I was coming out come out .
28 I said I 'll go round the back and I said I can get in through that window for ya , I said well I 'll have to force it , what d' ya mean force it ?
29 Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon .
30 Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus .
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