Example sentences of "[conj] i say [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you might do , although I say you 'd reject this particular model and that |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Boulez has been associated with the project from the very first days so I say he can consider this house his home . |
| 3 | Erm the the railway track , erm once it was extended through to and I say I 'll give you the details on that in a minute , erm went over the er Road , and then the track that was nearest to er the town , was curved in and joined that other line erm and er went off to . |
| 4 | but I think that , that with what it is you know , but then I say she 's got that anyway , she 's not as , as tough as what she makes out , but er it would be worth having a look you never know what 's in there , and I say I must pick up a couple of paper towels |
| 5 | Blaming it on the Company would be just a fallback — you would n't believe me if I said I was n't drinking of that but you might believe me if I say we 'd prefer the good old British way : that nothing happened and there 's no blame at all . |
| 6 | What if I say you can do what you like with my son ? |
| 7 | Well if I say I 'll come at five , cos that gives me a chance to do all the sort of phoning |
| 8 | When I say we will invest in the young , I mean , for example , that we 'll invest far more effectively in education and training . |
| 9 | When I say we must accept " the general outline of Darwinian theory " I do not mean that we must accept the dogma of gradualism which Darwin felt to be crucial but which is now becoming increasingly suspect . |
| 10 | Trust me when I say you should have nothing to do with such drivel — make like a tree and leave it . |
| 11 | I am not decrying Sara in any way when I say it might have been more sensible for us to choose the leader . ’ |
| 12 | We can both feel the strain plucking at the atmosphere , so when I say I 'll return the keys to the landlord she gives me his address to get me out of the way . |
| 13 | then as I say we 'll discuss it towards the end . |
| 14 | So it did n't necessarily mean that you get a squad of riveters that would stayed together all the time , erm for various reasons , as I say they may have been , unfortunately some of them might even die and therefore you had to make up the squad again |
| 15 | And in this sense , when we liberate South Africa we will also create , we hope a state in the world which will become foremost in fighting racism all over the world and at the lower level our community based organizations our non-governmental organizations that have across colour built up structures to move communities forward if our friends in Eastern Europe and elsewhere could see how that is done at grass roots level in the hell of racism as I say they would have a lot to learn . |
| 16 | And then as I say they can write off for a pack and they get examples which cost them . |
| 17 | Anyway then as I say they used to have these this back street effort and if you do it yourself you could do it with erm the enema syringe . |
| 18 | as I say she 'd have everything down , I think I , she definitely needs a big house , but not only that I mean she has to put everything up like |
| 19 | Right that 's , that 's , that 's lovely Ian anyway thanks very much for seeing me this evening erm well as I say I 'll go away and prepare some figures and then I 'll , I 'll see you what , what say Wednesday next week ? |
| 20 | As I say I 'll take a stall and I 'll be there all day if anyone can help me . |
| 21 | She says as I say I 'll have to wait and see what she says , because she said , you know when weather gets better , oh I says you 're better off waiting while it gets better weather |
| 22 | So as I say I would expect to see these percentages significantly increased erm . |
| 23 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 24 | As I say I ought to have had savvy enough , Edgeware Road , the first part of it , is purely commercial as you know , er er erm but I had n't realized that at the time . |
| 25 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 26 | Erm firstly because as I say it may prompt him into doing something if we write to him saying you 're making an application to court yourself . |
| 27 | And erm we used to kick this tin down the hill and er as I say it would roll down and we would all go and hide anywhere , back garden , front garden , over a wall , round a corner , anywhere like that you see . |
| 28 | I mean , the Anaglypta we 're painting looks lovely , but as I say you can re-paint it as it goes |
| 29 | You did n't consider that , you er i As I say you 'd go out in the morning . |
| 30 | And as I say you used to have to erm children used to hav well the elder children had to give a turn with the mangling . |