Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] i say " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , suppose parliament starts breaking the rules and acting arbitrarily and I say the mechanism is not clear . |
| 2 | I 'm going out before I say something I 'm sorry for . ’ |
| 3 | Well he was dashing out when I when I called him erm his wife answered the phone and she said you just him he 's going out at the door so he came rushing back and I said I wanted him to judge champion of champions and the and I said there 'll be two and he said , hang on , and he 's write it down said I 'll just stick it all at one and see to it when I come back , oh I got ta go and he went . |
| 4 | I am also rather confident of speaking literally when I say ‘ It was enlightening ’ or ‘ I discovered that … ’ , since ‘ enlighten ’ and ‘ discover ’ are not commonly used directly of lighting up or unscreening ; but what of ‘ It was illuminating ’ or ‘ I uncovered the fact that … ’ ? |
| 5 | So this is , what got me a bit suspicious right , well I speaking to her and all and I said , well you know , this is it and , you know she said she knows George is , is meant to be coming up and I said look and I says and I 'm gon na go down onto the floor here , and just as I was to go onto the floor there was a phone call right , and it was Alice . |
| 6 | At a recent meeting of the , I believe the , first of the Estuaries Management Committee Meetings for the Orwell and the Stour I was approached by the R S P B representative and was delighted to be asked , how soon is the pamphlets that we 're jointly publishing coming out and I said , oh that 's a jolly good idea , what 's happening , and he tells me that the R Y A's name is to be published with the R S P B and this can do nothing but help our image as we will all appreciate in here , perhaps we need to remember that the gun clubs call themselves , the Gun and Convers Conservation Societies , the wide wise wild fowlers call themselves the Wild Fowlers and Conservation Societies , perhaps we should be the Royal Yachting and Conservation Society and join in with that R S P B publication for I believe quite a very small sum relative to the total outlay . |
| 7 | and I was dancing about and I said , I 'm not gon na make it . |
| 8 | on ends , so he took the two ends off , cleaned the rails and he was sat on settee watching telly rubbing away and rubbing away and I says hey you gon na put them ends back on ? |
| 9 | I was sitting up and I said , " I feel a bit funny " . |
| 10 | ‘ But my tummy was playing up and I said to myself , ‘ Ken . |
| 11 | I , well that was where it came from I mean cos we were all sitting there and I said well why do n't we call it it was , it was that or Bailey 's Irish Cream and absolute we could get away with . |