Example sentences of "do i say " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said well I 'll be quite honest mate , there 's two hundred people working in this factory and I said , if you think that e all the charge hands and the supervisors have got to come down and roll up you lot to get the job done I said you turn round and you think if you was in business , whatever it is you like to do , if you 're in business and you 've got an order and that order 's got ta be out by six o'clock tonight and you 've got ta grovel to your workers otherwise you 'd lose that order , I said what would you say ? |
| 2 | oh I said we 'll try and see if we can get it done I says , so |
| 3 | I said it looks lov , I said what we 'll do I said we 'll rush down the road and we 'll get a tint . |
| 4 | I said well frankly Cheryl with her record I 'm not in I said she takes off when she pleases , she comes down when she wants something I said she doing me some good at christmas I said I do I quite understand that I said I do understand and I 'm I 've nothing nothing to do with me that 's entirely up to you and she said and you would n't tell me what to do you wo n't change our minds , I said no I 'm not trying to change your minds but you asked me what I would do I said and I think there and now she 's She said and I do n't care what you done , I 'll do I 'll do , I said she 's got hundreds of where they smash the windows and break into so regularly . |
| 5 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 6 | have a chat to him about what you could do I said do n't worry I said . |
| 7 | so he says but I do n't know what to do he says cos if there 's a job you know , if there 's any overtime , cos there ai n't been none but if there 's any overtime he says I do n't know what to do I said bloody do the overtime , let her hang about . |
| 8 | And I made them jigs and whatnot. when they come to do it at Dolgarrog when they come to want them doing I said to the to the the chief engineer I said , he told me about they were going get these commutators done here machine . |
| 9 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 10 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 11 | What do I say when I visit an old Cockney lady with a fractured leg who has been sent home because the orthopaedic surgeons need her bed for the daily influx of trauma , but who ca n't stand unaided and who lives alone ? |
| 12 | ‘ What do I say to your father if I mislay you ? ’ |
| 13 | What do I say to this woman ? |
| 14 | ‘ Yeah , ’ grinned Billy , ‘ but what do I say to our Mam , that was her blanket . ’ |
| 15 | The minute she 'd gone Cal grabbed my hand , held it till the front door banged shut , plus another minute to see if her mum would open it again to shout ‘ But what do I say if they ask — ? ’ |
| 16 | What do I say about Diniz ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ When I crossed Swilcan Bridge I had a feeling of … , ’ he recalled that evening in his lodgings , ‘ … how do I say it ? ’ |
| 18 | Most people who notice it at parties are too polite to ask what it is and why I am wearing it , but to the few who do I say ( because I find it embarrassing to explain ) that it is concerned with the story of the sinking of the Bismarck ; and then relish the look of puzzlement on their faces . |
| 19 | Maud smiled at the man , which struck Anthony as expedient of her , and said to Anthony , ‘ How do I say thank you ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So what do I say to Tim ? ’ enquired Helen . |
| 21 | What the hell do I say ? |
| 22 | Ah , do I see mouse , do I say mouse ? |
| 23 | Why do I say that ? |
| 24 | Why do I say this ? |
| 25 | What do I say when we 're out of hay ? ’ |
| 26 | But instead of simply struggling in embarrassment they can turn to their advisers and ask for help : " What do I say now ? " , |
| 27 | What do I say , in point of fact ? |
| 28 | Do I say , ‘ Oh ’ ? |
| 29 | What do I say to this ? |
| 30 | Do I say that the same way twice ? |