Example sentences of "me say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well let's say there was Joanne and Natalie sitting there and you and me say . |
| 2 | Me say me wan% go , you know , listen to some sound , and then " e say " you cyaan go sound , you too young to go sound " I say " Wha you mean by that ? " |
| 3 | So me say all me want is a poun " to get in [ inaudible ] and me ten pence bus fare . |
| 4 | Only if you do n't mind me sayin' so , it 'll be best if you do n't treat her like a private in the Army . ’ |
| 5 | The angler is me said ‘ 5 lb 6 oz ’ . |
| 6 | Look stop playing games and tell us said Sergeant Brigg , okay it was me said Mr Sandy . |
| 7 | I will be lacerated with drink tonight and , although the replay will be very difficult , the eternal optimist in me says we 've got a chance . |
| 8 | The cynic in me says it is because the larger firms do not do small audits and because abolition would cause problems for the ACCA , which would have more difficulty maintaining an audit regulatory presence as fewer of their members would be auditing . |
| 9 | One bit of me says well you 've got to , you 've got to do it like that . |
| 10 | The other sizeable group of offences reported on is where the case involves someone well known ( e.g. Bronski pop man fined for sex offence or more frequently there is either fame by association ( e.g. GAY-SEX SHAME OF ESTHER 'S ‘ BROTHER' , where the inverted commas in the headline indicate the rather more tenuous link with television star Esther Rantzen than the headline immediately suggests ) , or the actor who was said to make £12,000 a year from impersonating Prince Charles , or someone who sounds from the headline to be well known ( e.g. CASTRATE ME SAYS GAY OPERA SINGER : He preyed on children . |
| 11 | ‘ Half of me says ‘ no , of course not ’ , ’ he said , smiling a little . |
| 12 | Then the other bit of me says : ‘ This wo n't get you anywhere . ’ |
| 13 | Something in me says something to something in them . |
| 14 | His father would now and again telephone me saying that David was down to his last few pounds and that he worried about money . |
| 15 | Just before we were to go upstairs to be photographed , an agitated Nigel Lawson came up to me saying that he wanted a word . |
| 16 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 17 | ‘ If you 'll forgive me saying so , Prime Minister , ’ Mark replied cautiously , ‘ successive British Governments and the trade unions have n't exactly helped . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Of course they did n't say that , ’ said Nigel as if to an elderly sloth suffering from senile decay , ‘ but it 's no good me saying , ‘ Sinister , dexter , sinister , dexter , ’ because they wo n't know what I 'm talking about , will they ? |
| 19 | ‘ I just hope you do n't think it 's disrespectful of me saying so in the circumstances . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I told them I was leaving after the first gig and it was this bloke from Dik Dik Dimorphic who was going on at me saying that I should n't leave . |
| 21 | But he never says a word , just looks miserable because he does n't like me saying ‘ 'fuck' ’ . ' |
| 22 | In his satirical cabaret days , Nichols used to do a sketch with Elaine May about a Jewish mother 's shock at her son 's choice of profession : ‘ Can you imagine me saying , ‘ There goes my son the nurse ’ ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's no good me saying : ‘ This is the colour , this is the fabric , this is the atmosphere you want . ’ |
| 24 | In that spirit , John Davenport , that lazy , combative and yet most perceptive of critics , wrote to me saying that he almost hoped not to have to share his pleasure in this book with too many other people . |
| 25 | Many people feel afraid to say that they are angry and show it , and end up apologising for what they are going to say , for example , ‘ I hope you do n't mind me saying this but … ’ rather than ‘ I feel disappointed/ angry/taken for granted/cross . ’ |
| 26 | What puzzles me , I hope you do n't mind me saying this , but I … |
| 27 | ‘ I must admit there 's a little voice inside me saying : ‘ Stop now ’ . |
| 28 | I 'm sure that Rex Bellamy wo n't mind me saying that in tennis terms at least , he 's been around for quite a while . |
| 29 | I did not know where I was , but that did not stop me saying , ‘ I 'm here ’ . |
| 30 | You may say that you could hardly trust me saying it because I 'm wealthy enough to be able to come here from Japan to study . |