Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | What if I say you can do what you like with my son ? |
| 5 | Well if I say I 'll come at five , cos that gives me a chance to do all the sort of phoning |
| 6 | When I wrote ‘ Nirvana ’ , it was just supposed to be this positive thing about a song that made me wan na go and live , not really a political thing , like you say someone might hear that and go out and try to change things . |
| 7 | But if you say we must share every piece of equipment in those ratios , then you do create management difficulties and the potential for delay and and indeed that can in turn add to costs . |
| 8 | If you say we can do the right , alright ? |
| 9 | just for fun , you know but I 'm not a believer in using your fists , you ought to be using your brain to teach with but there were no there are no sanctions , if you say you must stay behind after school , you have to send a letter home and half the parents will write back and say my son or daughter is not staying after school and that is that ! |
| 10 | If you say I 'd like to er can you get this banker 's order , oh well wait a minute we need two signatures on that , or we do n't deal with banker 's order . |
| 11 | If we say we 'll wait until after the inspectors ' reports again , and then we 'll consider that , we do that any way - that 's not necessary . |
| 12 | So it does n't matter whether we look at it as whether you 'd get a third or whether you say you 'd get two sixths well it does n't matter cos it 's the same size it 's just it 's cut into two pieces or the way you wanted to do it which was a good way with the first pizza . |
| 13 | that I 'm w now , so what I suggest we do , is before we say we must make your premenstrual tension better with various manip various bits and bobs , and there are quite a few things we can do to help . |
| 14 | When I say we will invest in the young , I mean , for example , that we 'll invest far more effectively in education and training . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Trust me when I say you should have nothing to do with such drivel — make like a tree and leave it . |
| 17 | I am not decrying Sara in any way when I say it might have been more sensible for us to choose the leader . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | then as I say we 'll discuss it towards the end . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And then as I say they can write off for a pack and they get examples which cost them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | As I say I 'll take a stall and I 'll be there all day if anyone can help me . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | So as I say I would expect to see these percentages significantly increased erm . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |