Example sentences of "[noun] i [be] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could I make a constructive suggestion in this context of board salaries or remunerations or compensation packages or bonuses I 'm saying that in a slightly tongue in cheek way because I believe that the majority of shareholders do n't understand the differences between these concepts , as you gentlemen evidently do . |
| 2 | Yeah granddad I was saying you know when erm you know when Richard was saying it 's an insult to be called a cockney when he 's not a cockney . |
| 3 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |
| 4 | I lent him my air rifle and aimed it out the window and there was this car going by and he went and he smashed the back windscreen I was saying , You fucking dick . |
| 5 | I 'm fooling a lot of people 'cos I have absolutely no idea what the fâ I 'm saying , to you or anyone else . |
| 6 | No , but you 've got the tool I 'm saying to keep it under control |
| 7 | Makes me think the things I 'm saying are very clever . |
| 8 | Not this Wednesday , last Wednesday I was saying , I just said I do n't think we should go out no more . |
| 9 | I do n't think they were listening to a word I was saying , they were just watching to see what Dawn was going to do next . |
| 10 | The reason I 'm say ask people to erm give me some idea of where they feel , I may have my own ideas , where they feel , depends on the information I impart on people . |
| 11 | but that , that but that 's the whole thing I 'm saying . |
| 12 | And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret . |
| 13 | I recreate the absent proprietor â , he says in The Thief 's Journal ( p. 129 ) ; and in a 1975 interview : â I would like the world , and pay attention to the way I 'm saying it , I would like the world not to change so that I can be against the world â ( Gay Sunshine Interviews , 79 ) . |
| 14 | and I know la well some time when retirement was looking on the on the horizon I was saying to him you 're not alone but , you know , you 've got ta be looking towards being on your own because of course |
| 15 | So I mean again I realized I had dug a hole for myself with the compressed funding but at the same time I was saying to myself oh yeah there is carry forward here er |
| 16 | Possibly we 're looking to reduce home help hours , but this is at a time when , at the same time I 'm saying to you , we 're having problems with our S T G , our special grant for care in the community . |
| 17 | The only thing I could do I mean at the same time I 'm saying O K I 'll go in to do it this way , would be to actually say , sod this for a lark , instead of doing erm totally private thing , gon na set up a private limited company to issue cheques . |