Example sentences of "say [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have made 'em red , you have made 'em redundant and you in , in you have and I hope you 've had nobody redundant because I 've I 'd be pleased to go out to those homes and say them come back and I would be pleased to go up to and say you 've got your figures wrong because you 're saying that nobody 's made redundant ooh well I I 'm so pleased . |
| 2 | and she 'll go and get the milk out and say I 've just got myself a glass of milk mum , oh right , okay not even aware that she 's gone out to the fridge you know , fair enough we say ah , you do n't do you ? |
| 3 | As I say I 've not had anything like the bad experience of it that a lot of people have had . |
| 4 | you know as I say I 've not worked in this division but I I know that these have been fully sold , that 's the sort of money and once again that has to be done in three weeks . |
| 5 | I say I 've not seen her |
| 6 | what Ken say I 've always wanted a pedestal |
| 7 | When I say I 've never , in my life , sold a telephone number or refused to help a fellow journalist , he says it is ‘ union policy ’ , and that I ‘ ca n't be a real journalist ’ if I find this surprising . |
| 8 | I hope they kill him , say I 've never seen |
| 9 | As I say I 've only just started |
| 10 | I say I 've only just go been able to put the baby down |
| 11 | I got Jake to lie , and say I went away on holiday earlier than I did . ’ |
| 12 | In a way , it 's ended up being a good test to measure potentially good relationships against bad ones , because say I went out with someone and at a party they said , ‘ Sit on me lap , darling ’ , and then they said , ‘ Oh God , you 've only got one leg ’ — well , I 'd know they would n't be worth going out with ! |
| 13 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 14 | Tony Benn to Jimmy Young when asked about Neil Kinnock 's Radio 2 debut I 'M asked how I feel when they get the questions wrong and lose everything , and I say I try not to laugh . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm asked how I feel when they get the questions wrong and lose everything and I say I try not to laugh . ’ |
| 16 | As I say I mean well because I do feel the cold I suppose I have to have more heat than |
| 17 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 18 | Well as I say I had n't , I had n't planned on going anywhere . |
| 19 | But as I say I cope alright with them and as I say Doctor , I always seem as though I wake up with one , do you |
| 20 | Someone gives you with something to integrate and they say I started off I differentiated something |
| 21 | Yes it 's switched on So erm as I say I feel very ill prepared . |
| 22 | And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school . |
| 23 | I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in . |
| 24 | And I have n't , as I say I have n't seen it yet , but erm I 've had a look at it but not actually been inside it , because they 're doing , still doing it up . |
| 25 | No as I say I have n't got much to lose or anything but I think it 's a trade that is worth protecting and er you know it 's not a trade er it 's a living for the people in n it ? |
| 26 | I , as I say I have n't been |
| 27 | But if I write back and say I have n't actually had any wages since the seventeenth of January I might get it backdated from then . |
| 28 | I go up to meet Anita , anyway you can get a parking space up there , so I 've turned , drove up there they say I have n't left as early , it was while I was learning |
| 29 | They say I have only flirted with a temporary vice and its vice-keeper and , having survived them both , I am still me and I am no junkie . |
| 30 | Some say I play down the ‘ grinding toil ’ that is an unavoidable part of it all , so I will not deny that this year it was done by a very small corps of loyal people , several from without the congregation . |