Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very humbly I said how grateful I was , since I was only a surgeon . |
| 2 | Right I said I 'll start tomorrow morning , I go to the Labour this afternoon , Court of Referees . |
| 3 | John 's told me to tell you to go and get it , right I said I said Richard coming , for four hundred pound I you 're not coming for it so that 's it oh you think it was pub machine or |
| 4 | So at quarter past eight I said right I said go to bed said gon na turn that light out . |
| 5 | So I said to him , right I said we either go I mean I keep saying to him you 've got ta do something about this ! |
| 6 | ‘ Eventually I said angrily that ‘ surely you can not say that this is a happy marriage ? ’ |
| 7 | She would n't let him come with us because she said that 'd be our first christmas when we 're altogether I said yeah that 's the |
| 8 | There 's Tony never out of the bath and Nutty never in it , one stinks like a knocking shop the other like a nest of polecats ; I 'm beginning to wonder how they 'd look on the mantelpiece but do n't let on I said so ! |
| 9 | ‘ They asked about Joanna , and because I did n't know what was going on I said she had been due at the Leisure Centre at 7pm to take her class . |
| 10 | and I say well come on I said you can you can smile you know . |
| 11 | Oh no you know she 's gon na sort of , sort of suus , so erm , I said oh it 's alright it 's only Eve 's house keeper , and I got back on the phone I said no I 'm every sorry to leave you hanging on I said no I do n't know where she is , I have n't seen her all morning , I have n't seen her at all , and er I said bye then , she said what 's the matter with you she said , I said what do you mean what 's the matter with me , she said oh , why you talking funny ? |
| 12 | Yes in fact , to be perfectly honest with you the relationship is a bit more than she wants Ron is a bit of a pain I told him over and over again not to push his luck , I said for goodness sake , Ron , be grateful for what you 've got apparently she does n't like to make love with the lights on I said well if that 's what she does n't like that 's what she does n't like , you 're not going to change a woman of sixty eight ! |
| 13 | Hello darling , come on I said to her when she goes back to Tumbletots I shall expect big things of her . |
| 14 | fix the switch on I said you 'll never get a new one anyway . |
| 15 | I was staying on I said oh er , yeah cos yo , had Joe saying you were disappointed that I could n't say it to your face ! |
| 16 | and I said to Andrea , I says Andrea those two are two of the tills I 'd checked yesterday in the middle of the day and they were spot on I said that money went yesterday evening ! |
| 17 | so I said to her come on I said come on you 'll got ta start trying to be strong , I know it 's a nasty night being celebration night when everybody else looks as if they 're enjoying |
| 18 | And the next thing I went in and this girl was doing my hair I do n't know what she was doing but I ca n't remember the , the dream was he says to me Dawn do you want these curling tongs left on I said what curling tongs |
| 19 | All my windows have got locks on I said . |
| 20 | And a bit later on I says to him I think he 's at Cadets . |
| 21 | I should have thought you were flogging on I says , you skiving sods . |
| 22 | come on , come on , come on , come on , come on , come on I say |
| 23 | At this stage , almost overwhelmed by the deluge of war , there is perhaps nothing to say that is not banal . |
| 24 | So me say all me want is a poun " to get in [ inaudible ] and me ten pence bus fare . |
| 25 | Emptily I say to myself , ‘ It 's me , whoever I am . ’ |
| 26 | erm I ca n't hear for Dorothy 's car , what did you say ? is he going I think I 'd better I said thank you for the cake |
| 27 | Miss Sowerby — by now an enthusiastic convert — and I had taken turns at massaging the damaged calf muscles , and suddenly I said to him , ‘ Jimbo , just imagine it 's you that 's making the muscles move . ’ |
| 28 | Suddenly I say one of the ‘ Stop Checkpoint ’ signs that are ubiquitous in Ulster , but it was outside the Leggykelly , a pub just five hundred yards south of the border . |
| 29 | Not much I says no I 'm out of a job . |
| 30 | And however much I say , I feel that that 's not happening . |