Example sentences of "[pers pn] says [interj] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then er I thought oh I might as well put some veg in , you know , so I put some veg in , so when we , I says oh I 'll do this , I 'll do this stew , you know , nearly to finish it like , and erm when we come in we 'll have a meal ready for us , it were right nice coming into it meal ready |
| 2 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 3 | Norma got a huge big chip with chicken dip and then we brought Fred back something to eat as well , we were starving , and I got home last night and I was gon na make myself a sandwich but mummy-in-law was in bed so I says och I 'll just go to bed myself . |
| 4 | I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid |
| 5 | you know this is so she says oh I 'll probably see ya , er one night she was er cutting all the up for the rest of the week like , she said do you want a bet on the the big race this Saturday ? |
| 6 | Oh I ask him , he said that when he was here he says oh I 'll pick them up another time |
| 7 | he says no I ca n't , it 's a special and when you 're on holiday it 's different you can sit down and enjoy it |
| 8 | that 's right he says this is Mark , he says come in here a minute , says will you move your car and he says no I wo n't move my car , he says this is a public area and my car is parked there I 've been , been into the shop and I 'm talking to my mates . |
| 9 | He says yeah I 'll have to come round and see them |
| 10 | So the third one comes up , the other one 's brother , and he says yeah I will but first of all you 've got to give me a corn on the cob with lots of butter on it to make it all slippery . |