Example sentences of "say [subord] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we used to en I used to enjoy going to it , as I say until I got older and I wanted to sort of stretch my wings a little bit and and I did other things . |
| 2 | Well sometimes when I was asking you things like erm say if I asked you how many quarters to make a whole one ? |
| 3 | So say if I said to you , well if and I said to you , Well what could I do ? |
| 4 | What where are you I 've missed that actually the the quite interesting just to briefly ask you about th erm When we s when I saw you last time , you were telling me something about actually erm a bit about yourself how what kind of person actually saying , you know , personality , what kind of things Wh how would you actually describe yourself ? say if I said to you , Erm what kind of person are you ? |
| 5 | Well , you give the impression of a a faction in the party , now I could , I could serve this faction quite easily to Mike who 'd give me a lot of say if I said , you know , th the the plot thickens , you know , here 's a town |
| 6 | In any case , he said , picking up arguments , I was n't insured , did n't have a competition licence , the circuit management would n't like it , what would Tom Walkinshaw and Benetton say if I took Martin Brundle out in a ball of fire ? … |
| 7 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 8 | Yeah mm a bit like I say when I went to that dentist surgery at er Leicester |
| 9 | But I did n't tell you all that was said cos I thought well I 'm not gon na say it if there 's no need because you would automatically go there |
| 10 | I says cos I said that fellow I says my husband 's mother for years I says , in fact and old photographs in the house we have of and his wife and a whole crowd . |
| 11 | What would you have said if I 'd suggested that ? ’ |
| 12 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 13 | He says when I fell off I was relieved just to get off it . |
| 14 | Something the innkeeper had said when I made apologies for possessing no luggage had begun to tip my mood . |
| 15 | Yes but I 'm saying if I had a member of my family there , I would definitely want to know what was going on . |
| 16 | I mean I keep on saying if I found I could n't do the maths I 'd ditched |
| 17 | Er I would like to k to know more about what Michael is saying before I got involved in any discussion of that . |
| 18 | ‘ What were you saying when I came in ? ’ she said . |
| 19 | said once I said and I , when she 's been going and it 's been cold out there I said to her cos she always comes on a Tuesday dinner time |
| 20 | Oh she knew the bloke , she 'd be she 'd been out with him a few times before right , he 's , he 's not a bad bloke but like I said like I said erm but he 's respect for her I said to her |
| 21 | ‘ I was going to say until I fell in love with you , ’ he answered mildly . |
| 22 | ‘ And he said if I told the police — or anyone else — there would be a bomb thrown into our playground . |
| 23 | Geoff said if I had n't have wanted the money I would n't have bothered . |
| 24 | ‘ Capron said if I met you again I 'd be sacked . ’ |
| 25 | Tom said if I brought some mates , he 'd get us in . |
| 26 | Well , you said if I brought a couple of mates down you 'd get us in . |
| 27 | He approached me in the Limes Club in Sheffield and said if I signed with him , he would fill my book and raise my fee — a promise which he fulfilled . |
| 28 | ‘ He said if I 'd done exactly what he told me , and there were no tricks , he 'd contact me and hand over his evidence , and he would n't bother me any more . ’ |
| 29 | I think Sam accidentally kicked Hannah , or kicked Hannah I do n't know I was n't there , but he came flying down , really got to curb that child he said , I said I beg your pardon , he said you 've got to curb that child kicking Hannah , I said if I 'd seen him kick her , he said that well I 'm not sure that he actually kicked her it might have been an accident |
| 30 | I said if I 'd known they are n't , they , they were n't coming I 'd have gone out . |