Example sentences of "he say i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He says me must have had his reasons .
2 he says , look er , he says , cos I for somebody he said if I could , if he knew somebody that could take me down he says I would leave the mini for ya
3 So a fellow named Mr worked at he was a neighbour , I got talking to him he says I 'll mention it and you can come .
4 So anyway , this bloke says oh I 'll chase it up and I 'll see what 's going on , he says I 'll give you a ring in morning .
5 so he says I 'll give him it after .
6 yeah , he said if he comes and give me a hand he says I 'll give him five P a hour
7 He come back to me he says , it 's spilling over the top because the chutes are blocked up he says I 'll tell the track driver , the track driver says , Oh well get the to clean that up .
8 She went up with little lad and he were watching it and he says I would n't mind this , well Arthur says I 'd al he 'd already taped it off telly and so he says I 'll tell you what you can have it if you give me a blank
9 He says I 'll show you , give me the shovel .
10 He says I 'll go and drop this potty off at our June 's , I 'll take
11 He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said .
12 he said , now look you lost eighty pound out of that draw I said yes I did they 'll only allow you fifty so he says I 'll say these cuff links are worth thirty pound , so he was on my side were n't he ?
13 He says I 'll get her to come over and have a chat with you .
14 so he went back and he says er , oh he says er he says oh dear like , he says well carry on he says I 'll have to take the door off , so he says can you give a hand to hold it , cos he had to cut er this er like and all grown at the bottom of the door you know with
15 He says if you 're not getting stronger , you know , he says I 'll kill myself if yo if I
16 He offers protection , he says nobody 's gon na molest you , he says I 'll look after you .
17 No he says I could do it in a lot less time than that , he said and a lot neater , I said , you saying I 'm a scruffy writer ?
18 He says I should forget about the monastery .
19 He says I should wait to see how I really feel , but I do n't want to get married and my religious beliefs exclude sex outside marriage .
20 If he says I should ride to Swinbrook , why , that 's what I 'll do . ’
21 He says I must stop running away from the past .
22 He says I 'd love to come back to Oxford — it 's such a beautiful place .
23 He says I 'd like the university to look at the problems , not just the symptoms .
24 He says I 'd like to get this technology out to the third world as quickly as possible .
25 and granddad Pat was saying that there 's , Steven Fry on the telly he was , he was saying he made , ha I think he said he made half a million pounds out of something and he was , he says I 'd like to join go into parliament as a Labour thing , granddad says oh that 'll be really sensible , he said you 'll loose half of that money if you do that
26 Paul again when he 's writing to the Philippians , in chapter four and verse thirteen , he says I can do all things , oh how arrogant of you Paul , how boastful you are , oh no he did n't just finish there did he , he says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me , and writing to the Romans in that tremendous eighth chapter of Romans and verse thirty seven he says in all these things , in all the problems of life , in all the difficulties and all the temptations , in all the pressures that we are called to go through he says , in all of these things we overwhelmingly concur , we are triumphant he says , how , through him who loved us .
27 Paul again when he 's writing to the Philippians , in chapter four and verse thirteen , he says I can do all things , oh how arrogant of you Paul , how boastful you are , oh no he did n't just finish there did he , he says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me , and writing to the Romans in that tremendous eighth chapter of Romans and verse thirty seven he says in all these things , in all the problems of life , in all the difficulties and all the temptations , in all the pressures that we are called to go through he says , in all of these things we overwhelmingly concur , we are triumphant he says , how , through him who loved us .
28 He says I can have it .
29 Oh he says I can get you one , I said I want to hear it first
30 he said I 'll tell you what , all this messing about get in your car and I 'll come , so he got his car out the garage
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