Example sentences of "[noun] i says [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they looked like that and I says , what , I says , they 've caused these men to earn all this money I says they 're earning more money than and that 's all you 're gon na offer me ? |
| 2 | and he was saying to me er , he says Jean I says I live and learn and er he says , you know when he says , he talks through his nose , he says you know if they had 've left Sandy Row the way it was and just put bathrooms in and he says and the way it is |
| 3 | And she looked at me and blinked her eyes I says you what means . |
| 4 | He says I 'm a granddad I says you look it as well . |
| 5 | He he says I give it to Maggie , I says you did n't give it to Maggie I says you give it to Linda 's lad . |
| 6 | And although I 'm not I enjoyed the piping , I enjoyed But I was not at peace I says I says , you 've even ruined me for this . |
| 7 | when we send it back in a few days fitting , this job I says we 'll want it early in the morning and you can have it in the afternoon , but we were going to spend the day in Liverpool , but you 're dad said , I 'm not being round all those shops all day , so I said ooh no ! |
| 8 | and in the head I says they could be washed , and dried and put away . |
| 9 | Oh Carole came in er Saturday night I says you 've no skirt on looking for John , I said |
| 10 | I says my god I says it 'll never be known that my brother said that you can be anything and that was first thing he ever gave me . |
| 11 | and lovely , I just woke up , er a couple of minutes before then the insurance lad come cos when I only , he should of come yesterday and I waited in but I could n't , you know when I opened the door I says I , I he says , you know |
| 12 | I says if I 'd 've wanted a slice of fat and I 'd 've want burnt tomatoes I says I would 've ordered them . |
| 13 | And I opened door and he says coal love I says you 're early are n't you ? |
| 14 | it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost |
| 15 | it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost |
| 16 | We talking about this and I was saying about coming from construction I says I 've says I 've to go up the cut like |
| 17 | otherwise he 'll get the sack , and I says John I says it 's all . |
| 18 | He says you and your politics , I says that 's right , me and my politics I says I do n't think a lot of notice of them , me . |
| 19 | I said I do n't know how you dare sit there and say you have n't paid that Alice , she 's paid a fiver I says I 'd be ashamed , I said I wish mine was only that , so she phoned up to make arrangements to pay it a pound a week thirty two pound , that 's all hers is Wendy , for the year |