Example sentences of "now [pers pn] say " in BNC.

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1 now I says , now I 've seen some wooden ones in her house , I said
2 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
3 And course he 'd frightened himself and er I counted up to about eight , nine and ten I said to him , Look when you go inside that bloody gate now I said go straight into the office sit down and think for a minute where the hell are we all going to in this carry on ?
4 Now I said Mr Nichol I 'd to take you to that erm but the only thing is it 's after the so I do n't know how you feel if you 'd if you would rather see a performance before the exam , or you would rather see that one after the exam , or two .
5 weaken the belly bit now I said I said .
6 but you 've got to curb him of that , I said make matters I said Dan get yourself down here now I said did either of you kick Danny ?
7 Now I said to Ken that 'll be your christmas present to me in nineteen years and that 'll do me a treat cos that 's really worth it .
8 I said and there 's there 's me panicking like I said I said I 'm going grey as it is now I said without worrying about
9 it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take
10 things so erm , I knew it was something , anyway so she said all this , I said right well I said I 'll tell you now I said you know I 'm biased because
11 Yeah and er , I said to Jane now I said now look before I go to Preston , I want to go in the pub
12 now I said the others , they 've got to be lace-ups though look , it 's got ta be lace-ups
13 and er , it was gone eleven I would of thought , anyway he stopped and I slept like a log , got up at twenty past six , but erm , it 's a strange thing because one of those came last evening and it parked outside George 's , now I said yesterday , when Alan goes to work , it 's not long after six normally to go up to London and that
14 Now I said you were naturally good at it , why ?
15 Now I say that was the first Neighbourhood Watch , it was actually the first police recognized Neighbourhood Watch .
16 How do we ensure issues that directly affect the G M B members and there 's millions about , now I say nowadays , are highlighted in their proper manner .
17 Now I say amazing let's just see where he got his winners .
18 Every time I write a letter to him now I say keep smiling , turn them corners up cos they all go on at him .
19 Now I say , that that is an intellectual exercise , as soon as it becomes an emotional exercise
20 Now I say that as myself , but I know it is reflected throughout the whole of the county .
21 But just now you said that it is not something seen as just your problem .
22 Now you said you 'd make it even .
23 I 'm all right now you said .
24 Erm now you said you went away , you lived away from home for a bit , when you when you were eight
25 Now you said the pipes were nine feet in diameter ?
26 Now you said you you had a number of other er options that you were looking at which I understand .
27 Now you said that you 'd actually presented it in another way and were just , and , and had just changed it .
28 Now you said you were gon na tell me what 's happened on the news so far .
29 That 's a good job I found now you said it was a letter head paper , well that ai n't a letter head paper !
30 Now you said that if I gave you X cos squared three X it might be a bit easier to integrate .
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