Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i say " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 2 | And should that day come — bear in mind that I say " should it come " , not " when it comes " — who shall blame them ? |
| 3 | On another occasion , she wrote : ‘ We were in the bedroom and I said to mother : ‘ What is that ? ’ , referring to an overmantel mirror . |
| 4 | I always find I say to Kim you know I mean you have all these you know it 's like Shaun 's giving up he 's giving up his karate and his football and I said well you know I 'm sorry but she should n't have let him . |
| 5 | We always march in the parade on Armistice Sunday and this year erm I picked my poppy wreath up from the vic from vicarage and I said to the Vicar , you do n't mind if I wind some white poppies in this one do you , because it was the Earl Hague poppy you know . |
| 6 | Because I had seen my young brother-in-law and I says I 'm gon na be like that then , did n't fe er feel any of this er at that time . |
| 7 | I picked her up by her neck and I said you bitch and she goes when you put your face up close to her she goes and puts her ears back and goes like that to your face . |
| 8 | somebody comes to look at it just for a view I mean , I say , I , I 'm quite happy coming like I said th if you motion behind there , make the bar presentable we 'll fill it out with stock then that 'll look better |
| 9 | Well they said what you having for tea and I said well we 'll have to have you can have a few beans or something |
| 10 | The easiest equation if I said , Write down the equation for one of these . |
| 11 | I mean I think it 's the class thing as well really , because I can remember when I was erm leaving school erm and I went to the careers erm teacher for my interview and I said I 'd like to be a journalist and she looked at me and I came from a very poor working class background in Tottenham , and she said ‘ I 'm sure you could be a secretary or a shorthand typist if you really tried ’ . |
| 12 | Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things . |
| 13 | back to the car and I said no , Rachel take it back and she said oh you 'll make it , go on in , . |
| 14 | We were driving around and I seen these two young lads in a car and I says , ‘ They look a bit young to be driving that . ’ |
| 15 | He asked me if I wanted any gear and I said yeah , like . |
| 16 | And I told him that you had all the gear and I said that you wanted sixteen . |
| 17 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | Went past the pub you see , just about to reach the archway and I said Roy ! |
| 20 | So I got down on my knees in the car showroom and I said : ‘ I want you , Lord Jesus , to come into my life . ’ |
| 21 | Gwenellen and I said nothing . |
| 22 | Oh ’ — he jerked his big head to the side — ‘ I never open me mouth but I say something . ’ |
| 23 | My old man said be a Swansea fan but I said bog-off , cobblers you 're a fart ! |
| 24 | And you can also get lost even if you do say the script because I said to Roger I , I 've |
| 25 | An and the next day of action as I said before is on tropical rainforests erm . |
| 26 | United were on top but it was a scrappy game , full of fouls as both sides tried to gain some sort of control ; one touch football as I say , a lot of misplaced passes and a lot of fouls , although United had a chance in the fifteenth minute when Martin Foyle almost headed home Paul Simpson 's cross from the right at the near post . |
| 27 | I ask these questions because of course article five of the treaty of Rome basis a burden on this court , it does n't er create rights in itself , I think everyone agrees with this , but it certainly er imposes a duty on this court erm to apply with er community laws , purposes and principals and I 'm wondering whether erm , that , that is why I 'm looking at the possible consequences of this er the inter relationship between the , for example , the directive and article eighty five , er and bearing in mind as I said to Mr the other day , the consequences erm of er these fees |
| 28 | Whether the Council I , I personally would be quite keen to go down there and see A , and we 'd need permission of the land owners , to do this , to see where the link could go across , you know , the best position , so that we , and I believe this is what Councillor is saying , so that we can actually come forward and maybe this ought to be a meeting with the Amenities Committee , maybe the Ramblers and bear in mind as I say again I hate to do these things and the land owner think we 're steamrollering 'em into something without their knowledge . |
| 29 | I could feel the hairs rise at the back of my neck as I said , ‘ You 've seen her ? ’ |
| 30 | He has always been a source of inspiration to me and I hope that he will take it as a compliment when I say that , from the days when I was a student , he has been an inspiration to me . |