Example sentences of "[conj] i say [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Although I said to my husband when I was pregnant , what if I have a handicapped baby ?
2 They realise that their route to the Community can be opened only if their countries are practising real democracy in respect of human rights , and multi-party Parliaments — although I said to my Polish friends , ’ You can go a bit too far . ’
3 But anyway apart from that I said to Mr , he 's the head over all the hydroelectric stations over this erm I said Mr li these commutators I told him doing the .
4 he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins .
5 Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Is not the Hon. Gentleman aware that I said in Committee that the advisers were Kenneth Ryden and Partners ?
6 When she starts listening to that I say to her , ’ Hey , why do n't you listen to Bad Company or Led Zeppelin or something decent for a change ? ’
7 It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract .
8 He suggested we go and talk to him , so I said to David , ‘ Well , here 's this guy — I do n't know what he 's going to do , but let's go and see him . ’
9 Ordinarily I am not a quick thinker but this situation was very clear ; it took me only seconds to realize that Matt , with his family , needed the job more than I did , so I said to Fred , ‘ In that case , I would like to resign ’ .
10 ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’
11 So I said to him , ’ said John , ‘ do me a favour and go back to America and give the Red Indians home rule . ’
12 I got down there just now so I said to him
13 So I say unto you — count your blessings !
14 And erm we got there and I says to my husband I says , oh , I says er , are you sure that tent 's safe ?
15 However , about ten o'clock the police car come up into the close and I was up in the workshop and I says to him I says , aye , I says , have you found Charlie ?
16 I phoned her and I says to her I says , .
17 And I says to Ray , are n't we using hopper nineteen ?
18 No no y No nobody 's thought of it until I stood there and watched it and I says to George the operator , I says , Right we 're gon na put a new chiller on here .
19 I ca n't , our Margaret 's drying it on radiators , and I says to Albert , what me mum doing with the dryer .
20 then I got sort of er saving because I got paid what redundancy protection and everything , and I says to her oh bugger it I 'm gon na pay that off and then
21 And I says to him you 're always smiling
22 And he says erm er , one pound eighty and I says to him what ?
23 And I come home and I says to him , I 'm not having this no more .
24 And I says to him , you 're not supposed to use this entrance .
25 And I says to Steve , I says , I ca n't keep affording this !
26 So what I did is I writ thirty plus thirty four , adding up to sixty four and she jumped up and she 's grabbing thing off table and she had hold of the screwdriver and I says to Linda thought she was gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were n't , she were looking for a pencil so she could rub it out , well she could n't and she found this pencil and she scribbled thirty four out .
27 conked out other day and he thought it were points , he changed points and I says to him have you changed plugs ?
28 and I says to him that 's one thing you never get at that , that one at Top Shop
29 And I says to I says erm
30 I never realised Chris owed me a fiver for me wage and I says to him I had to pay me bill for me food for week and it was like six quid .
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