Example sentences of "i say [pron] 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blaming it on the Company would be just a fallback — you would n't believe me if I said I was n't drinking of that but you might believe me if I say we 'd prefer the good old British way : that nothing happened and there 's no blame at all . |
| 2 | I say I 'd like a |
| 3 | You did n't consider that , you er i As I say you 'd go out in the morning . |
| 4 | What you might do , although I say you 'd reject this particular model and that |
| 5 | as I say she 'd have everything down , I think I , she definitely needs a big house , but not only that I mean she has to put everything up like |
| 6 | I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid |
| 7 | I says I 'd like a rise . |
| 8 | Why should n't Fanshawe just have said to his wife , ‘ This young lady has missed her last train and since she lives in London I said we 'd give her a lift ’ ? |
| 9 | I said we 'd bring her . |
| 10 | ‘ I said we 'd go away together for the weekend , ’ said Preston . |
| 11 | I said we 'd go and watch her . ’ |
| 12 | Christine I said we 'd meet her by the baked beans so |
| 13 | I said we 'd need a table of your own then |
| 14 | ‘ I said we 'd have to talk to everyone in the darts club , ’ said Burden , stopping down at the water 's edge , ‘ and I reckon we have . |
| 15 | er , I said if it had been a normal Saturday I said we 'd have cancelled that you know , we 'd have met you in Duffley but er , I said my mum 's supposed to be dancing . |
| 16 | That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday . |
| 17 | well I said we 'd pick up aunty Jean at twenty too eight |
| 18 | You know I said she 'd cut down her plant like I had |
| 19 | And I said she 'd have had a |
| 20 | I said he 'd bring trouble to us all . ’ |
| 21 | I said he 'd have to teach me how to do it . |
| 22 | And I said he 'd have to pay extra for the minibus hire . |
| 23 | I said I 'd change it if you liked , she said no I prefer this one |
| 24 | I 've been asked to write about it and I said I 'd give it a think . ’ |
| 25 | When they saw Ruth , both men looked slightly abashed , like a pair of overgrown schoolboys , and Connor explained : ‘ This young man wants to learn the rudiments of sparring , so I said I 'd give him a few pointers . |
| 26 | But I mean , Gill would go out and I said I 'd give her a if if we did it e er turn and turn about you only have to find one about once every eight weeks like . |
| 27 | At the end of my little phone session , I 've one last in the bag , hi Mick , Peter , as I said I 'd give you a bell in January , do you think it 's a good time for us to get together now , yes , Oh great , O K , I 've got . |
| 28 | and then I said I 'd give her a ring . |
| 29 | I said I 'd do it . ’ |
| 30 | I said I 'd do it , and I want to get some sputum samples for analysis to make sure he has n't got a chest infection . |