Example sentences of "[be] say i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 need to know , need to know , I do n't know mum , I could n't tell you just erm stick it on before you go to bed just give it a bit of time to take the chill of it , alright , bye You can if you wish discard everything that 's just been said I mean my mother 's trying to book my holiday which does n't surprise me , , but then again she usually tries to anyway , where you going ? , what you doing ? , who you going with ? right , I shall tell you now the exam questions shall I ? , what do you want to know ?
2 You 're saying I like it .
3 and getting nowhere and you 're saying I think I 'm thor thoroughly annoyed about all this
4 Yeah I though , with all what you been saying I thought you had , you got her a Barbie stuff have n't you ?
5 I bought him some of those cheekies Hey you know I 'm said I knew I forgotten something out of Gateways , do n't you ?
6 Do n't let it be said I kept you here against your will . ’
7 ‘ Do n't let it be said I stopped anyone working — especially Robyn Drew , ’ he added sarcastically .
8 I 'm not saying , I 'm not drawing any conclusions until I know but I 'm saying I think it 's an area that is perhaps worth investigation .
9 When we used to sit with you in Humanities sat next to you right , and I was saying like erm erm , you were saying I got you to say so who are gon na bring down the school to beat me up ?
10 Well it 's it 's say I say I was doing my best , as it were , say that everything was going swimmingly I 'd be getting a profit of thirty pounds from Neil twenty pounds from Alan because five will go on the tea and the milk and the box of Cornflakes and the toast er twenty , thirty , that 's fifty and twenty for Paul which is seventy .
11 And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well .
12 I was saying I hope I do n't go on five , hope I do n't go on five , what do I fucking end up , on five
13 I was saying I thought she was lovely !
14 But I always seem to end up lecturing when I 'm talking to him , you know instead of just saying , I was saying I want them all to be independent , you know !
15 Ah but I think , I was saying I think they 've I think they 've tested them at customs .
16 said God I hope I do n't look like big Kath and I was saying I think my dear it 'd be a blessing if you did you look like big Kath .
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