Example sentences of "say [conj] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And let those who do not wait say that I was lucky . |
| 2 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 3 | I say because I was running around a bit I think . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | and then , as I say when I was sixteen well erm when I left Needham School , you see , I passed through . |
| 6 | says that I was the one that killed it and I did n't . |
| 7 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 8 | It transpired that Gilbert , always a joker , had said that I was fourteen ; I was , in fact , twenty-three . |
| 9 | This , I thought , rather an excessively sympathetic comment — I had only said that I was very sorry that Roger [ Hinks ] had been transferred . |
| 10 | Holmes had told Stapleton that he would return to London , but he had not said that I was going too . |
| 11 | I think if you went and saw our own doctors a lot of our fears would be allayed because most of the young doctors would n't , would recommend to you , my own doctor asked me all the questions and different things and then he says he 's a young doctor , he says if I were a women and if I 'd answered all the questions as you did , I would go on H R T. |
| 12 | I would have said while I was putting out my washing cos I did it last night on purpose for the gas man coming in . |
| 13 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 14 | Yeah , when I was , er she says when I was as big as Rebecca or when I was a big Joanna , it 's always the name . |
| 15 | I remember excusing this by saying that I was waiting for the police and that nothing should be touched until they had come . |
| 16 | I received a letter from the British Board saying that I was a possible selection for the European Cup . |
| 17 | I telephoned Capital Radio 's Helpline , saying that I was Linford Christie and needed help . |
| 18 | I left a cheque for the amount Trish had loaned me , plus a month 's rent in advance and a brief note saying that I was going to stay with an unspecified friend in North Oxford . |
| 19 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 20 | I got involved in that so that by mid-1977 I was performing in a play which was actually saying that I was gay . |
| 21 | ‘ I prefaced my suggestion by saying that I was an ignoramus . |
| 22 | Having looked at my passport , the Gendarme made a telephone call during which he turned to look at me , spelling out my name and saying that I was English and a former paratrooper . |
| 23 | None the less I had found the evening reassuring and felt no difficulty in saying that I was sorry but I was suddenly most awfully tired and if no one minded I thought I would go to bed . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't recall saying that I was . ’ |
| 25 | She wrote my mum a long letter saying that I was a Devil Child and the best thing my mum could do with me was have me exorcized . |
| 26 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 27 | I du n no I I got the gist of what Lynne was saying and I was concentrating but maybe I was concentrating too hard because I was getting most of it right was n't I but it |
| 28 | No I was saying if I was saying if I was going to spend that on raffle tickets , it would n't matter if I was getting |
| 29 | No I was saying if I was saying if I was going to spend that on raffle tickets , it would n't matter if I was getting |
| 30 | ‘ Are you saying if I was a Catholic I could n't suit myself ? |