Example sentences of "[noun sg] i say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now yesterday afternoon I said to our Joe I fancies a bit of chocolate . |
| 2 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 3 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 4 | So when I parked my car I said to them I forgot how much it was in there , twenty pounds in the hotel as you 're not a guest they give them in reception . |
| 5 | Er without being an actuary I say to myself that 's a pretty magical thing you 've done and then it causes you to start looking at the monetary background of all of that an and again I I 'm , I 'm speaking here largely on what actuarial advice we are beginning to receive . |
| 6 | In morning dawnlight I say to doctor sorry . |
| 7 | I mean I w when I was dropping dead with exhaustion one evening I said to him look Tony , the there 's I 've cooked a chicken , there 's a big chicken cooling on the table and there there were red sauce , potatoes , gravy , I said , stick the lot on a plate a micro and , you know , film it over , microwave it oh well I sha n't bother to eat anything now of course he was paying me for his food |
| 8 | The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man . |
| 9 | And one day I said to her : ‘ Kirsty , I think you 're still taking the stuff . ’ |
| 10 | Anyhow er and when she was on the phone the other day I said to Irene oh er Muriel says I 'll bring it next time I come I 'll bring it . |
| 11 | she obviously did n't know this for a long time and then one day I said to her , well , it was lovely meal and all that but I do think your mark-up on the wine is scandalous ! |
| 12 | That 's the , yeah but that 's the rate I said to Nicola , I was n't working less than that . |
| 13 | I do not intend now to resurrect the metaphysical theory I said in Chapter 2 that we do not need . |
| 14 | So before my work out this morning I said to Joe he 's in the bathroom . |
| 15 | but well anyway she say , the next morning I said to her do you wan na go home and get some clothes and come back here ? |
| 16 | And I worked on the till this morning I said to . |
| 17 | ‘ When I am shaving in the morning I say to myself that if I were a young man I would emigrate . |
| 18 | That woman I said about that had the |
| 19 | Outside Lisabeth 's door I said in a loud voice , as if talking to someone : ‘ That 's the trouble , you just ca n't get the staff these days … ’ |
| 20 | When I got on the edge of the road I said to them , ‘ Who 's winning ? ’ |
| 21 | Yolanda was a spotty , bespectacled girl from Barcelona who spent her time translating every word I said into Spanish for the benefit of Garcia , a missing-link anthropoid from one of your immediate neighbours . |
| 22 | So I 've got me jeans on and the first word I says to him is so why have you shaved your moustache off Dave ? |
| 23 | Do n't worry , you 'll hear every word I say to her . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't you ever listen to a word I say to you ? ’ he bit out thickly . |
| 25 | So the other night my , the girl next door to us , her husband does painting and he 'd just got himself a new van I said fucking hell I said to him sometimes I said there 's a van outside I wan na know who it is , is that still on ? |
| 26 | Any ill thing I said to you I now take back , any harm I meant to you I hereby revoke . |
| 27 | The first thing I said to the commissioning editors when I met them is that I would not commission one programme . |
| 28 | Another thing I said to Caliban the other day — we were listening to jazz — I said , do n't you dig this ? and he said , in the garden . |
| 29 | Very good , very , very good , no I think as I say the only thing I said to Mr I told him that I 'm very upset because I 've always been treated ever so fair by him I mean they 've really been good to us , you ca n't say they 're not , I mean no other Council I do n't think is as good as Harlow Council , well I say that because I know by my friends who live away they 're not er , they do n't get half the benefits that they get here , I mean we are looked after are n't we ? |
| 30 | Yeah that 's , when I was reading the thing I said to you somehow the upstairs seemed much better . |