Example sentences of "say [adv] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I think the danger is there , from a Conservative political perspective , is that having , having , Liberals having with us if you like , got the principle through , Liberals may then go with the Labour party and say right we 've got the principle through , we 've identified four homes , let's have a refurbishment programme , a bit of airport money here , a bit of slippage there and we 'll get this through and then we 'll tackle the problem of closures and if closures is proving difficult let's ignore it for a year , let's do these four and let's go on . |
| 2 | On this occasion they did not come to us and say right we want to negotiate , although several times we went to them and said please , here 's our budget , you know , our budget is now ready , we want to negotiate . |
| 3 | I 've got ta , I think people are so un-organised with Christmas , you 've got to be organised , you 've got to say like , you know , I 'm only going to those shops , you know , if like like now , say so we went in Boots |
| 4 | Well we 'll see what we say anyway we 've got er we 've got a couple of the Councillors on erm after one o'clock today Councillor Stuart Argyle and we 've got David Poole on as well |
| 5 | And I do n't think if you 've got it out of the Guilds and say now we 've got to have so much for the rent this week I do n't think I would have a Guild very long , because they can go round the corner . |
| 6 | I would agree er , that it 's strange er once you start something , I mean people come up and say well we 've got a whole information bank here and other people have a whole information bank there and yet the ability of people who are caring , for adults or children , to get out , run round forty agencies and come home loaded with leaflets , pushing three children and a parent , you know is is quite difficult ! |
| 7 | Or you could take a bit of a short cut say well we 've already got twelve there thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen and so on . |
| 8 | And you could then if you wish say well we 've got point five of a post , and that person saw eighty percent of those or ninety percent or |
| 9 | They say well we 've offered you three blocks and you 've turned them all down and you say well yes but you 've offered us blocks not not |
| 10 | Now this is really because of better science , and again a lot of people say well we 've got government regulations , which will make medicines much safer . |
| 11 | and be counted , but I think we 've tended to stand back and just say well we know it 's going on but what is actually being done to these |
| 12 | Then what happens is we say well we do n't need the service of noise abatement Monday , Tuesday , Wednesdays erm so what we 'll do is we will concentrate on Thursday , Friday , Saturday . |
| 13 | Say well we do n't want to do too much do we today . |
| 14 | That 's what they say well we have this silly game that we play on the number line , going up and down the thing and when you do three start from three , count seven in the opposite direction we finish up at this number called minus four . |
| 15 | and , and they may very well my Lord , say well we have been watching with great interest what your Lordship has been doing |
| 16 | I , I compare test matches to more like the chess game you know it 's slower and you sort of you know whatever but these are people who would , did not to test games you know they did n't sort of say okay we 've now met this Pack a Ball thing where you know and everything else . |
| 17 | But if you have n't said so we do n't know what your wishes are and the law will come along . |
| 18 | Or somebody would have said well we wanted brown bread , not white bread . |
| 19 | You know if er you know if federal government says well we think it 'd be a good idea to set up a erm you know a national space agency er NASA and all these other wonderful things , you know , and all the people in congress say great idea , great idea er we 'll have to have a launching site , we 'll have to have a launching site in Florida er cos it 'd be good to get one next to the water otherwise the rockets might come down and hit people and that would be unfortunate so we 'll agree there has to be a seaboard state but Flo well we 'll choose Florida cos the weather 's nice and you can play tennis all the year round so it 's a good idea and then we have to have mission control , right ? |
| 20 | another revolution I mean that the fight that none , none of these things have really come to a full success , yeah , so nobody looks at them and says well we need no more revolutions because they 'll all work . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I says well we have n't come by the front door , which we had n't of course . |
| 23 | Following , from what was said there we know that there 's , that there 's a limited pot for mental health because that 's the way it 's going to be , we 've been told that so there 's a real big job for women |
| 24 | I have said consistently we do n't want to be the first in the industry , I would rather await either N A C O T , N A C O M or the U D M seeing what they , the outcome is there as we have traditionally done and then take it from there where you must agree that we have usually improved on their offer when it 's been made . |
| 25 | Right , so it will be sel self defeating , job creation in the urban areas will be self defeating and most of the , the reason why that was particularly important because historically most of the job creation schemes that governments have put in place with or without aid in developing countries is in the urban areas , you know , it 's the erm subsidized industrial plants , subsidized erm manu manufacturing industry , right so that the import substitution industries er have been set up with government and or aid money , foreign aid money and what Harrison Todaro was saying you 're wasting your time putting money into these big projects , right , because that only in that only in erm exaggerates th the migration problem because it really will increase people 's perception of er job possibilities in the urban area , they think there are jobs being created by government there , that will happen as another , as another stimulus er let me just draw a little diagram what Harrison Todaro was saying right we 've got time here such to say horizontal axis marks the lifespan of some representative migrant , then you 've got wages , wages in the agricultural area and wages in the urban area like let's just say that this is the wage rate in agriculture , right . |
| 26 | And th then she was saying well we told her |
| 27 | Ive been saying recently we needed his inspiration to drag some wins out of the draws we ve been getting . |
| 28 | You say there 's three candidates there who get , one who is actually earning the money that we pay and two that are n't , the quick fix is to say right we given you an opportunity to do this national accounts job at the same salary for six months , see if you can do it , and if you do it we confirm the salary . |
| 29 | Well that 's actually what we said so we did not say , and I |
| 30 | ‘ Somewhere to train , Dad , we 've got to find somewhere , that 's the first thing he said once we landed there , ’ Mr McGibbon recalls . |