Example sentences of "[pers pn] says [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says well if you do n't smoke them I says me and Maggie 'll get them for you |
| 2 | I says nowt , she says good I 'm coming . |
| 3 | She got a blue three piece suite , a blue carpet , there 's blue int curtains , and I says them curtains do n't match your three piece suite , they look stupid ! |
| 4 | I says what a bloody excuse , I says and his car broke down , shh bloody corporation buses here , why does n't he use a corporation bus to get in ? |
| 5 | Er , that 's alright , let's behave ourselves , I says what about us , we 've been here since quarter to ten waiting for you to come . |
| 6 | I says what was wrong with you not on a corporation t er a corporation bus ? |
| 7 | I says what do you them with ? |
| 8 | I says what you gon na give me ? |
| 9 | Oh yeah , I says what a clever fellow I am I say ! |
| 10 | I says what ? |
| 11 | So I says what we might do , we might buy his off him . |
| 12 | Cos I said to young George , his son , I said he came when I was painting the sills and I says what do you do when it 's frosty when you start to work ? |
| 13 | she says three pound fifty , I says what ? |
| 14 | I says what job ? |
| 15 | I says what 's that ? |
| 16 | I says what 's that ? |
| 17 | So on Friday he tried to pull same stunt again so I says oh no you 're not , I says we 're not playing at that , I says chuff that for a lark , I says what do you think you 're playing at ? |
| 18 | Cos I says what you doing still working here , you know , that 's what we 'd just been on about |
| 19 | Well I says to her , I says what , do wo n't they have a big gap ? |
| 20 | I was that busy trying to convince him that he had to er go to doctors cos I says what did they actually do ? |
| 21 | I says what meeting 's that ? |
| 22 | her perfectly proportioned upper parts she says oh no , I says what , she says broken nail |
| 23 | I says what curling tongs , says you left curling tongs on , I 'd actually burnt my finger I must 've sleepwalked and I , I felt the bed when I remembered all this and it was dry so I must have sleepwalked it all and went to the toilet and done my hair cos there was a big burn all down my finger . |
| 24 | And David says te shouts er tell her er about er when Dawn was doing her and she says I opened the window she says I says what was that you were gon na say to er Ashley ? |
| 25 | I says what 's that ? , me swimming stuff , well I said that 's your fault , I said you |
| 26 | And I says what is it ? |
| 27 | So I says What we can do is I 'll do an hour for you , we 'll move the piano and other bits , bicycles in this case that he had , we 'll shift them to the house close by , drop two men off , and one man 'll come and do the remainder of the work . |
| 28 | and she says she 's still as bad off now as when she went in to get the house , you know the five thousand odd , she 's would , she 's , she 's , I had a bit last , I , I wished you had it all , I said do n't lie , I said do n't tell me you have n't had it I says cos you have , she says yeah , I says what you done with it ? |
| 29 | cos Kenneth come up early on , he says it 's like this night he says I 'm not properly , ah right , I says I might I says were that like , I says , I says what time ? |
| 30 | she were , she were helping to make tea and , I do n't know how she , how it came , but she said granddad , I thought oh something 's coming now I says what ? , she said if I came to stay with you , she said after Richard 's you know sale , if I came to stay with you for at the weekend shall I have to go in that |