Example sentences of "say i [modal v] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should watch that clock and say I 'll have one every two hours . |
| 2 | I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid |
| 3 | And I , er and I pretended to be incapable and I , and said I would like someone to go and help me do shopping , home health service would have , come along . |
| 4 | Herman gave me some pretty match-boxes , and I said I would put one in Joanna 's Christmas stocking . |
| 5 | Not knowing what I was letting myself in for , but feeling in the mood for experiment , I said I would have one too . |
| 6 | She said I 'll go one then and she will go and er give us a shout , because |
| 7 | all them eggs you know , when we went to Alec , when they were selling these trays of eggs , er , we went there with Alec , so I said I 'll have one like , and they were really fresh , but when I got home I got that thing of , from Kwiksave , I got the whole packet , big packet |
| 8 | ‘ I said I 'll get one . ’ |
| 9 | I said I 'll work something out for you and erm I 'll be in touch with you next week |
| 10 | He said he has n't seen anything new yet , he said I 'll spend it , I said what you spend it , he said I 'll see something when |
| 11 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 12 | I says , Oh , alright then , I said I can see everyone checking the er basins in the big oven , my duck . |
| 13 | Oscar Wilde was a student here at Magdalen College … now disc jockey Mike read has been inspired to write a new musical about the man who wrote the Importance of being Earnest , and said I can resist everything except temptation . |
| 14 | I did n't come because you said I could have anything I wanted , I came because of the past . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ At about 6am they said I should eat something and if nothing had happened by 8am they 'd ask a doctor to break my waters . |
| 16 | Well dad said I should say something |
| 17 | Said I 'd find somethin' nice in his pocket |
| 18 | ‘ There are one or two people who claim that they now remember hints dropped by Kim Philby , but I ca n't say I can remember anything at all . ’ |