Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i say " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | wrong if I said who is heaviest of the two of you ? |
| 2 | look funny and I said yeah |
| 3 | I mean sometimes you expect him to laugh and he does n't laugh like he says something funny and I say something funny back to him , but he does n't laugh . |
| 4 | But but but if you write the formula down let's say let's say you get it all wrong and I say , What happens if you have an acid and an alkali ? and you say , Well I know they all give a salt so that 's a safe bet , so I 'll say they give a salt . |
| 5 | They said there 's a possibility of one coming erm April in Kidderminster if you 're interested and I said well I would be interested |
| 6 | And Hambleton are are being more restrained as I said earlier , is appropriate to our own policy . |
| 7 | Seems I was wrong when I said there were just two common ways of arranging fuel and water tanks . |
| 8 | Am I being artless when I say that ? |
| 9 | Right , I 'll deal with this one I I 'll deal with this one and be very careful as I say . |
| 10 | I value Clare and I 'm not being patronising when I say that . |
| 11 | I see now why you were so evasive when I said I had n't power of attorney . ’ |
| 12 | Well the standpipe used to freeze up and er when that occurred the grown men in the house used to light a fire round the standpipes , of course it was cast iron it was n't copper or anything like that , and light a fire to thaw it out , I do n't remember ever being without water but we used , it was a bit primitive but burn newspaper and stuff round the standpipe and er the old as I say we used to , the water for the washing we used to pump into the sink and er fill the old dolly tub with water for the washing and use the rainwater for washing . |
| 13 | Well I said to Diane you know , I did n't laugh , I did n't think it was funny , I thought it was sad and I said but he needs help , if Vaughan 's you know , he 's got two sons , but Mark 's a bit hopeless and he was at Oxford anyway , I said surely somebody should go and get him some some treatment , sanitation . |
| 14 | Well I would n't like to say he 's paranoid but I said well that 's like cos he said you must our house is filthy June ? |
| 15 | ‘ He was delighted when I said yes . |
| 16 | I mean the basic mechanism is very simple as I say . |
| 17 | All it wanted was a new cover , I said , and she almost looked convinced when I said I was sure we could reach a price that suited us both . |
| 18 | Yeah Carrie went and as she , as she left he patted her on the bum which is , you know , a bit friendly and I said to Jess well look , put it this way , cos she 's really , she flirts a lot |
| 19 | No , I make that so discreet and I said to them , on your bloody squeak on ours . |
| 20 | Well , to tell you the truth , your boys asked me when had I last seen my father alive and I said Friday instinctively , and then by the time I 'd realized my mistake , it was all written down , and , you know , I thought if I changed it , that 'd only create trouble . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Will you think me extremely uncivil if I say that I do n't believe you ? ’ |
| 22 | Nicola had made me go and see if he was okay and I said yes he was , because I 'd seen his eye move and I left him there . |
| 23 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
| 24 | so he 's getting married in uniform with all his blue and white and I said oh blooming heck |
| 25 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 26 | ‘ And that 's the fork in the road where you said left and I said right . ’ |
| 27 | Perhaps I would be a bit churlish if I said that they could have scored even more in the second half , but that 's a minor complaint . |
| 28 | Was I then being unfair when I said that , you know , in my view , we still have n't totally got our act together , there 's still room for improvement , and the thing is , you see , people are travelling to other countries . |
| 29 | They were referred to the clinic by their doctors in Greece or the Middle East , and looked horrified when I said there was no lift and they had to walk down seventeen stairs to the basement . |
| 30 | ‘ I was n't meaning to be rude when I said you had n't changed . ’ |