Example sentences of "well i [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
2 | Well I prefer to be in the mornings so |
3 | well I went to physio . |
4 | Well I went to bed at er ten o'clock in the morning and I woke up at ten o'clock at night . |
5 | Well I went to work on the Saturday morning at six and we were dredging until half past twelve , then we would , then do repairs till five o'clock at night and then five o'clock at night , when the other crew had gone home , when I start to stay there then from five o'clock Saturday night till Monday morning six o'clock all the time just to keep watch on the dredger , I used to sleep mind you during part of the time and erm used to have a big old tortoise stove down the cabin and make good fire . |
6 | Erm well I went to Liverpool . |
7 | Well I went to the United States , I I I sailed from on the R M S Corinthia , from Liverpool on the twenty eighth of September , nineteen twenty nine , and arrived in New York , on the seventh or eighth of September in nineteen twenty nine , which was just one week before the stock market crash . |
8 | Well I went to in oh about twelve months after that or less say , and er she wanted a man there , I went down there and asked could I have a job back you know . |
9 | Well I went to Venice er some years ago and I thought it was a dirty hole . |
10 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
11 | Well I went to the last week and I did say that I 'd like to go to that one , I 'll go to as many as I can |
12 | Well I went to Morrisons we had , I 'd got to do my shopping , so by time I got to here |
13 | Well I went to a a big meeting round about nineteen eighty five |
14 | Well I went to erm Exeter three times to try to find something to wear . |
15 | Well I went to Colchester at thirty two . |
16 | Well I went to school with Barry and when we all went to a party over and was there , |
17 | Well I speak to myself most of the time anyway . |
18 | I er , I know , I , well I wrote to Marion and said er , I really think that erm if they do find something slightly amiss now erm the a is out of the question . |
19 | aha , well I says to Billy we 'll go shopping |
20 | Well I says to her , I says what , do wo n't they have a big gap ? |
21 | Well I says to him , I says if you were that interested I says while I 'm watching I says why do n't you come and see , I says , give us a shake |
22 | Well I says to him I says well make sure , well it 's five past eight he 'd get in instead of five past seven |
23 | Well I says to Lindsey , said if you ever want me out of that hospital Lindsey you 'd better start and be good . |
24 | Well I says to your mother one time when we 'd been downtown and your passing through |
25 | Well I says to her , the way she slagged you off , I said , nowt to do with you . |
26 | He said , Well I thought to me self well the bloke that 's co just walk in the shop and sell five hundred bundles of fire wood , he could sell insurance . |
27 | I mean well I thought to myself , God what a life ! |
28 | That 's right , well I said to Lee , you do n't half pick your blooming girl friends , he had that neurotic one up the road , did n't he ? |
29 | Well I said to her er your mum asked me last night . |
30 | And like well I said to her I said well then Sandy would have put it down to the fact she did that bad in her ballet . |