Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] and [pron] say [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 2 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 3 | And she was going in for eggs or something , said well I usually leave them a day or two in the winter cos it does n't hurt and she said she struggled and struggled with that door ! |
| 4 | huh , I could n't believe it , I mean he 's been that thick and she says how old are you and he says thirty five , when she 's gone , when he 's gone she said blimey I thought he was forty five did n't ya ? , she said yeah , I said he ai n't wearing very well is he ? , then this woman come in and she was , she 'd had an operation and one of her stitches had n't dissolved and she said I have a shower instead of a bath , perhaps that 's why and Sue says yes that 's why because you need water to dissolve a stitch , so any way she said to her how old are you , she says thirty seven and Sue says |
| 5 | But she did n't move and she said nothing , and the Maître d'Hôtel did n't so much turn his attention to her as give her the briefest of glances . |
| 6 | She needs somewhere to stay and I said she could stop here . ’ |
| 7 | Well I want it done properly see and I said you got ta drill and all that . |
| 8 | and he talk , he loves , he likes me now , cos he never did and he says he . |