Example sentences of "[adv] and i say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I have children of my own , that I had naturally and I said yes , but with reservation because erm I I 've often wondered in the case of a handicapped baby er , that was born to a surrogate mother and the surrogate mother wanted to keep it simply because it was handicapped , or if she knew she was gon na have a handicapped baby the amniocentesis test and if she wanted to abort the baby but the mother-in-waiting did n't who would decide ? |
| 2 | And he came in and I said and the mirror on the dressing table is n't done . |
| 3 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 4 | scraped it all in and I said I 'll leave it in dish cos it 's a dog doggy dish went back in house and , oh what did I come back for ? |
| 5 | Well fuck when I come back up he near had the fucking front door broke trying to get it open so that they 'd come in the front and I see the kitchen door 's closed and I just walked in and I said well John the dishes or nothing 's done if you wan na go and have a look because he would n't do them . |
| 6 | erm a couple of weeks ago two came in and I said ‘ Oh , I was just going to lock up the screen ’ . |
| 7 | Well I went in and I says where 's me cup ? |
| 8 | He fetched it in and he bunged it down and I said that 's not a twenty two , he said it is , so when he 'd gone it were only nineteen so I rung him up I says hey |
| 9 | Then as he was passing a bit nearer and I came to him , he stopped again in the queue , I walked in and and I said , I knocked on his window and he put it down and I said , that was n't a very nice thing to do . |
| 10 | Yeah , well , I went down and I said to after the eng the engineer had seen it , he said like |
| 11 | but I , I 'd never get them done , and I mean I 'd fed Matthew and I shouted down and I said look you 'll have to come and get him dressed cos I 've got dinners to put up yet |
| 12 | And he went bump , bump , bump took the prize down and I said , and I walked past we said like , to his mate Chris , I said , he 's improved a damn sight more than I 'd have thought . |
| 13 | you know the , the things alone and I said get your hands off those doors I do n't like polishing , so he 's come for a cloth and the polish |
| 14 | I said you , she said yes , I 'm afraid so and I said I do sometimes begrudge it to those men in there . |
| 15 | That wee lad , and then the one from called about two o'clock he says I says he 's not in so and I says he 's away to swim or something what time did he go at ? |
| 16 | And er oh it , it were about seven o'clock and I said I 'll go and play with Len ti till half past , he says well be a , be back by half past eight . |
| 17 | Aye , three o'clock and I says you were away at |
| 18 | She said I ca n't cope no more , she said I just can not cope any longer and I said you must n't feel like that I said you 'll break all our hearts , I said it 's , life will never be the same again , I said come on home with me , forget about this day , I said tomorrow we 'll come and pick your birds up cos she 's got two beautiful parrots , she 's got a Mulican white with peach |
| 19 | on ends , so he took the two ends off , cleaned the rails and he was sat on settee watching telly rubbing away and rubbing away and I says hey you gon na put them ends back on ? |
| 20 | Oh yeah , yeah , yeah , and then and Margaret called for the ambulance , I heard the slop and I heard , and then they put the dog out right away and I said , that 's unusual of them , it was one of those tiny little miniatures you see |
| 21 | And I pulled away and I said , well erm I so enjoyed the Mozart I 've always wanted to hear it . |
| 22 | Aye anyway I says seeing 's it 's you I 'll go and tell him and I come upstairs so I come downstairs and I says he 's asleep , he says the idle get . |
| 23 | She was willing to give everything up , but we talked it through and I said I could manage on my own . |
| 24 | So anyway , I went through and I said to could I speak to the manager ? |
| 25 | He sat in my armchair over and I said to him , well now nanny probably wo n't ever work again darling so I ca n't afford it so I 'm not buying much this year , he said you says that every year . |
| 26 | I know when we 've er sold the house , when our children all went and left us , the house was for three bedrooms , right , and I , I said to my husband I do n't want to stay here because they built the school outside behind our er , erm back yard , and every , all the rubbish that kids throw threw over and I said to him I do n't want to stay now kids , kids gone , children gone leave , left home , got married and went to off , I said I do n't want to live here , I do n't want to retire to , to stay at home and listen to the kids at school all day long and have the rubbish thrown over the hedge |
| 27 | out and never said ta ta to anyone , I mean I ran over and I said to mum he 's got a funny on , what do you think ? |
| 28 | cos we got taken over and I says I said no ! |
| 29 | Yeah so anyway and I said that 's not very nice so we were talking this morning about her and I had to tell Ann did n't I that she drove to work three days on a trot in her bleeding lights two . |
| 30 | he made a joke about a blonde you see just before that , anyway and I said I just wanted to , do you know who is on so he said oh he thinks is on and that must be the from |