Example sentences of "the [noun] and i say [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm and I made the point that I tipped all your lot out of I said what and I had n't let them go in the classroom and I said it 's a new thing but I said they got their coats on they 're too macho to wear them that 's their problem , you know ! |
| 2 | can be the same inside leg measurement , but different heights , so I said yes that 's true , it 's all according how long or short you are in the body and I said my son 's short in the waist |
| 3 | I was reading the things and I said it was a bigger upstairs is , are bigger than the downstairs . |
| 4 | I said I 'll go round the back and I said I can get in through that window for ya , I said well I 'll have to force it , what d' ya mean force it ? |
| 5 | Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon . |
| 6 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 7 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 8 | I done it , I did it all neat and tidy the whole way round till we got round to the door and I says you can do it , no way am I cutting round there big chunk |
| 9 | She said : ‘ He asked about the bureau and I said I had nowhere to put the things from it so he went into the wardrobe and cleared a shelf and said put it in there . |
| 10 | I got him every time , until the end and I said I am not serving him this time ! |
| 11 | I said because in the bloody book there 's no cars on the roundabout and I says it ! |
| 12 | Cos I said to young George , his son , I said he came when I was painting the sills and I says what do you do when it 's frosty when you start to work ? |
| 13 | So this is the same idea and if there 's a star Something that I did see a wee while ago , I saw a f a light very close down to the horizon and I said I 've never seen a star so bright way down there . |
| 14 | Then everybody said they saw The Graduate and I said I was Dustin Hoffman . |