Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] i say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Miguel , I apologise if I said anything unflattering about you . |
| 2 | So say if I said to you , well if and I said to you , Well what could I do ? |
| 3 | What where are you I 've missed that actually the the quite interesting just to briefly ask you about th erm When we s when I saw you last time , you were telling me something about actually erm a bit about yourself how what kind of person actually saying , you know , personality , what kind of things Wh how would you actually describe yourself ? say if I said to you , Erm what kind of person are you ? |
| 4 | Well , you give the impression of a a faction in the party , now I could , I could serve this faction quite easily to Mike who 'd give me a lot of say if I said , you know , th the the plot thickens , you know , here 's a town |
| 5 | if I say if I say three |
| 6 | He says that 's what you want but I said yeah but there ai n't no bloody fit I reckon it ought to be them on legs maybe . |
| 7 | you , you sh you shook you head when I said Alwyn had made a loss . |
| 8 | Personally , forget as I say , I say it 's enough for me . |
| 9 | And as I say as I say I do n't ken how long it had been there but that see that likely about the same time as the as the mill was heightened and er the kiln would 've been putting on . |
| 10 | You mean that I say things each side of it . |
| 11 | cos I said erm no I have n't actually , stop cos I said that |
| 12 | And they they should be an explicit criteria saying that locations should be avoided which stimulate as I say , in migration . |
| 13 | At the 18th there were two yards of borrow and I said : ‘ How far right , Willie ? ’ |
| 14 | Get , and I mean like I said to you today you 've still got your cough . |
| 15 | I mean like I said on a Friday we get thirteen seventy five till twelve o'clock . |
| 16 | and er , but apparently they did a , they did a test and that was also a package where the stuff like that , transfer although those three may of been carrying weapons , they split open the policeman , but this does seem to basically at , well not no , not indiscriminately they did n't say that but they shot innocent people , I mean like I said well the I mean that 's got to kill in those streets and stuff the ricochet 's can go quite easily go through somebody but there , there was , there 's always been claims er , there 's no I R A gunmen there |
| 17 | I mean a , I 've been throwing mine away now we ca n't get them at the other farm , I mean and I said if we do , we 'd better keep |
| 18 | I mean if I said , Share six Mars bars between two of us. how many would we get each ? |
| 19 | Yeah , it 's the , it 's the with the word natural is n't it that er you know people often use the word natural to mean good and right and therefore something you should do , but of course no not always I mean if I said to you death is natural , nobody here would think I was advocating suicide or that er we should n't have hospitals to try and save people 's lives I mean er when you say death is natural , what you mean is death is one of those things that we just have to put up with , we 'd rather we did n't but we 're all gon na have to face it in the end , some of us sooner than others er but erm but there we are . |
| 20 | Even when I can understand all they are saying , they give me little opportunity to reply , so anxious are they to keep up the headlong momentum of their own speech ; then they complain that I say nothing ! |
| 21 | Just , just accept that I said |
| 22 | So this is , what got me a bit suspicious right , well I speaking to her and all and I said , well you know , this is it and , you know she said she knows George is , is meant to be coming up and I said look and I says and I 'm gon na go down onto the floor here , and just as I was to go onto the floor there was a phone call right , and it was Alice . |
| 23 | I said look if I say it does n't look right that 's all I know , it just does n't look right |
| 24 | And I hope that members appreciate as I say , the range and scale of work , which is that , you will also have seen that they 've been able to open now one evening a week , and for a very small service with a budget of about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds , erm they are doing sterling work . |
| 25 | Well , the Old Fire Station is about three hundred seats , the Apollo seats one thousand two hundred , and we seat as I said about six hundred and fifty . |
| 26 | But just consider as I say , when you flash people , that you 've got to maintain the separation distance . |
| 27 | I think you , the people you know and I said you could apply it to Tory M Ps , God knows if you 're gon na get a Tory MP for with their organization , but I 'm damn sure you can get G Ps for and you can get pharmacists for or whatever . |
| 28 | ranging from when I went to Leeds to that seminar and there were people excited about the Festival and you know , two weeks before the Festival speaking to Jane in London , said oh we 've had a lot of you know and I said well I 'll get back to you in September and tell you |
| 29 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 30 | Most of them know and I said how ? |