Example sentences of "[pers pn] say [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I say I went all day without nothing to eat bloody starved . |
| 2 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 3 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 4 | Well she smokes Lambert and Butlers and as I say she had one fag left and she said I have to keep that for Norm . |
| 5 | I said he 'd better things to do than roam about up there . ’ |
| 6 | As I said I had one quiff from Jane that was erm because somebody had n't filled in the date by which it was agreed that the Client should get a reply and suggestion was that the procedure should be changed should be non compliance , erm and then the rest of this is based on a suggestion from Rita , and I have several here now , erm . |
| 7 | I said I had three kids and I could |
| 8 | I said I needed some air , but if I do n't go back soon … |
| 9 | When I was arrested in August , one charge against me was that I said I wanted free elections , ’ said Mr Carnogursky , aged 45 . |
| 10 | and he I said to him , I said you got new neighbours ? |
| 11 | Well I , I 'm sure it would n't be , what did I say I said that sea green and the cerise |
| 12 | She says she preferred this version because it follows the novel more closely . |
| 13 | Are you saying you found illegal drugs on this property ? ’ |
| 14 | She says , Ali Carver , she said they 'd been to that last Saturday night with a couple from and she said they paid fifteen pound just them |
| 15 | Er and then similarly to that they er were said to seek agreement by Lakehoff she said they used more questions and more tag questions . |
| 16 | She said , as you said , they s she said they used less swearing and more please and thank yous . |
| 17 | ah she said she saw this fella hitting the wall and hitting the football halfway out in the road , it was fucking me . |
| 18 | aye , she said she had some chicken |
| 19 | She said she had bad dreams all the time . ’ |
| 20 | When she 'd finished she said she needed some peace and quiet for a while . |
| 21 | She said she wanted more freedom for licensees to decide their opening hours , and believed children would learn about alcohol by going into pubs with their parents . |
| 22 | Last night she said he experienced several difficulties when he arrived in England . |
| 23 | She 's a sensible woman — and she said you needed fresh air . |
| 24 | I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ? |
| 25 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 26 | And she said ooh she said I got two grandads . |
| 27 | She said I got fat fingers that 'll do . |
| 28 | You said they had nice boys at Walthamstow . |
| 29 | And w er did sh you said she got some work , what what job did she do then to help ? |
| 30 | ‘ As you said she did two nights ago . |