Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i say [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So cos I said to Lynn as I said what I 'll do , I 'll go slow then one of you 'll have to put it out cos there 'll be so much work to wrap up I should be taking it home with me to do it .
2 So when I said to Bob this morning was it Bob , I said do n't I do n't have a magic wand that 's gon na get rid of them but what I hope I 'm gon na give you over these two days is a system whereby you can use that and can support you so you 're able to effectively present despite having the nerves and be able to put over your point of view effectively , yeah ?
3 Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me
4 Thursday aye er , she come home and I said to her where 's your ski jacket ?
5 And I come home and I says to him , I 'm not having this no more .
6 and hopefully But I said to him about Duttons Road and I said to him what I 'll do is , I 've got ta go to town tomorrow I 'll er get some tapes and start taping
7 He walked past me later and I said to him , ‘ Going home early ’ and he said , ‘ Family problems . ’
8 And it was about three hours later and I said to her
9 it , I did n't and I felt I 'd have no friends around where I lived and you know , I 'd always be alienated , I 'd always be home later and I said to my mum I do n't think I can cope with it , so she said right then you do n't go !
10 So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them .
11 I got down there just now so I said to him
12 But she 's getting cross now cos I said to her look you 've got ta think about this seriously .
13 It 's , it was , it was er er sheer coincidence that Beverley had been to Crete the year before and I said to Jackie we 've been to Yugoslavia four years , do you want , do you want a change or do you wan na go back to Yugoslavia , she said well I 'll , I 'll have a look , I said how about , how about going to the Greek islands for a change
14 Well I just to well he 'd done it before And I said to them , Oh captain 'll take you .
15 I said , and Roy was being rude though cos I said to Roy , I said , have n't you got a glow worm , he said no mine 's got eyes on the end of it !
16 Now as I say to every one of you er on these courses , do when you go through W H Smith pick one up and have a look at it .
17 you follow me , now when I say to you story book stay , eh er , I say your story close , right away you said I 've done that
18 So I 've been onto the bastards today and I said like twenty one days is up and I 've I 've got like twelve hundred pound you know .
19 I says , I have n't got any , and he came down here and I said to him , I 'll give you fucking deaf alright !
20 Well like I said to him that milk round
21 Erm well as I said to you today one of the things that you know
22 S maybe if I says to him away you go to your granny 's and then and you 're not taking anything with you .
23 And erm we got there and I says to my husband I says , oh , I says er , are you sure that tent 's safe ?
24 He used to come in here he did n't know er how good it was , he 's a a bit of a bit of a lady , you know , kick your eye out , and he come in here , I can see him now si sitting on that chair there er , and I was sat there and I said to him , I said er why do n't you start kidding to it and all this madam , you know , give it sweets and this other .
25 But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place .
26 I was in front of Bev when I went in there and I said to her
27 Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’
28 At Reading road in Shiplake , the A four one five five , there are some temporary traffic lights there holding er the , your journey up this evening , for road realignment work and er there are some delays there as I say at the moment .
29 then when I say to you well how many threes are there in twelve you can
30 Er if we 're doing the job properly as I said to you before we really need the invoices for various
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