Example sentences of "say to i [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , as I 'm always sayin' to me old Dutch , what the eyes do n't see the 'eart do n't grieve about , and a bloke 's got to make a livin' some'ow . |
| 2 | Well , as I say to me old mate Keef ( cor , strike a light , there 's a crazy geezer an' no mistake ! ) … |
| 3 | Toomey also sees the decline in human terms : ‘ If you 'd have said to me 20 years ago that there would be no trading floor at the Stock Exchange , I would n't have believed it , ’ he says . |
| 4 | So are you talking , you 're saying to me that 's a full term 's work ? |
| 5 | Oh yes , they 're very , very clever so Doug was saying to me one day in work , walking dogs together in Wellington , he said I had this fellow yesterday , he just convinced a board that he did n't need any more treatment , he was cured erm , he would n't do any more |
| 6 | keeps saying to me new house new job new baby . |
| 7 | I went to him on the Sunday morning I said morning Charlie , he said morning and I said ni I said goodnight Charlie , he say goodnight and that 's the only thing he said to me all the weekend . |
| 8 | Superintendent said to me one day , ‘ You do n't like this fellow very well . ’ |
| 9 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Tell me more about your country , ’ he said to me one day . |
| 11 | ‘ What are we going to do , Toby ? ’ he said to me one day . |
| 12 | ‘ If you want to do something useful , ’ my mother said to me one day , ‘ you can help me propagate the cactuses . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps Mr Woolf had overheard that classic remark by a member of the public who said to me one day when we were negotiating the locks of the Caledonian canal in Venturous , " I did n't know we had Inland Revenue Cutters . " |
| 14 | Three a year which was very nice and er oh well whilst I was there , you see , erm I landed up in , in Peel because I was going on a and she said to me one day this Miss er what are you doing today ? |
| 15 | Because erm Derek was looking for a supervisor and he said to me one day in a moment of desperation he said who can I make up ? |
| 16 | But , said to me one day erm |
| 17 | he said to me one day , and I do n't remember the day he said the best thing would be for her to go on casual , then she can keep her thingy thingy . |
| 18 | And he sa and he said to me one day , are you fucking deaf ! |
| 19 | This is when I was pregnant went to put my name down on the housing list and they said to me sorry you ca n't we 've got too many people on there already . |
| 20 | Well Paul , Paul said to me six hundred , about seven hundred |
| 21 | I 'm frightened of the probation and the social services finding out that I 'm using again , 'cos when I came out this time , they said to me that , if I ever went back on the smack , that the kids 'd be took off me , no two ways about it … . |
| 22 | That you did not mean what you said to me that day . ’ |
| 23 | An American once said to me that British Midland 's habit of giving out boiled sweets before take off was a ‘ quaint gesture ’ . |
| 24 | No he said to me that . |
| 25 | lesson he said to me just look at Christmas in that house ! |
| 26 | said to me this morning . |
| 27 | last night , yesterday he had one and he said can I have another cream egg , so I said alright , cos there was a box of six , which means he 's had two out the six , he said to me this morning , got any more cream eggs so I said not for you , you 've got one for Martin , so I said yes , I 'll have his then |
| 28 | Never mind , she said to me this morning , she said I 've been to see a friend of yours , I said well who 's that ? |
| 29 | And I mean Dee said to me this morning cos she heard us one morning |
| 30 | Des said to me this morning did Bev get a phone call yesterday and I said no . |