Example sentences of "so i say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course I wisnae thinkin so I says Ah 'll have a wee cognac and Isabel 'll huv a Campari soda ! |
| 2 | Turns out his Dad is a head master in the Bathgate area so I says ‘ Oh what 's the school called ? ’ |
| 3 | So on Friday he tried to pull same stunt again so I says oh no you 're not , I says we 're not playing at that , I says chuff that for a lark , I says what do you think you 're playing at ? |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't find the words to tell Dorothy , so I said it was a wrong number . |
| 5 | I was seventeen then so I said ‘ That 's fine . |
| 6 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 7 | He suggested we go and talk to him , so I said to David , ‘ Well , here 's this guy — I do n't know what he 's going to do , but let's go and see him . ’ |
| 8 | There was nothing I could think of to say , so I said nothing . |
| 9 | When I asked if I might walk through the camp and look at the castle from the other side , Cinderella looked distressed , so I said ‘ never mind ’ and made my way back to the stone stile . |
| 10 | But there were no flights , so I said , ‘ Look , mate , we 're never going to have this amount of money and time again , let's go to the best place in the world for birds — Peru . ’ |
| 11 | I thought he was asking me what club , so I said , ‘ A 7-iron , ’ but what he wanted was the yardage . |
| 12 | Not that we 'd actually fallen out , but I 'd walked away to check the markers and I had 127 to the hole and Lee said it was 147 — and that 's a difference between an eight and a seven — so I said , ‘ You got it wrong . ’ |
| 13 | As we were walking to the next hole I tried to think of the right things to say to him , so I said , ‘ Greg , do me a favour . |
| 14 | I am not usually a forward sort of person as you know Elsie but I thought there had been enough talk about death enough of wanting bad bad things so I said why kill it it is not a fish for the pot . |
| 15 | Ordinarily I am not a quick thinker but this situation was very clear ; it took me only seconds to realize that Matt , with his family , needed the job more than I did , so I said to Fred , ‘ In that case , I would like to resign ’ . |
| 16 | There were these huge plants in disintegrating tubs , so I said : ‘ We must get concrete blocks and put them round the tubs , so they can just fall apart inside ’ . ’ |
| 17 | But she still was n't convinced , so I said , listen , I 'll tell you something , if it was between you and your husband , if I was going to have an affair with one of you , it would be you ! |
| 18 | Brenda explained , ‘ Mr Sharma wanted to see the dogs , so I said that he certainly could if he would provide a written statement first . |
| 19 | He suggested that we should get together and do some writing , so I said yes — I mean , who would n't ? ! |
| 20 | ‘ So I said , ‘ Okay , if we 're going to do this again , just drop everything down a f***ing third and let's get rocking again . |
| 21 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 22 | I had to direct my words to the teachers , so I said they were like cardinals because they were the hinges on which the new South Africa would turn . |
| 23 | I was too scared to admit to her what had happened to them , so I said Mrs Smith would tell her . |
| 24 | I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other . |
| 25 | Apparently he was a bit worried , so I said — oh , it sounds silly — that we 'd only just got back , that I 'd just sat down … . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ No , it 's not , in he said , ‘ It 's a Suo , and I should know.in I knew better than to argue with an expert , so I said nothing and quickly caught it instead . |
| 27 | I thought , ‘ This wo n't last when we 're in Soho on a wet day , ’ so I said , ‘ I think you 'd better wait . |
| 28 | This was not the moment to lecture him on the facts of hospital life , so I said briefly , ‘ Patients prefer two to one , ’ and asked if he had explained his position to Sister . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 30 | Well , none of us ever 'ad money , so I said all right , a penny each time I showed 'im my legs . |