Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] say [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not really worried about it to be honest I 'm not worried about any of them , I thought I would actually be erm I 'm actually , we 're under a lot of pressure at the moment but I 'm not actually , usually when I 'm like that it 's all gone I tend to say well forget about it and you know run away from it kind of thing , |
| 2 | When we got home , I tried to say as much , but Father would n't listen to me . |
| 3 | I tried to say perhaps this was not possible as we did not know what was outside the car park , walls , buildings . |
| 4 | For example , without wishing to go into the debate about the Bishop of Durham s well-known views — and I want to say here that on the resurrection and virgin birth I take the traditional teaching of the Church — I am concerned when speakers are ignorant of some of the critical insights which have given rise to the Bishop 's well thought-out views . |
| 5 | erm secondly , I want to say just a word about an idea that Gould , in particular , and Stanley had been fond of , namely the idea of species selection . |
| 6 | What I want to say now is that you are my mum and you feel like my mum again . |
| 7 | I want to say very generally that we have to avoid thinking about that sort of clash as an impossible dilemma , a blank , unintelligible conflict , a tribal row between unrelated moral principles each espoused by a separate group — a dispute that can only be settled by tribal warfare . |
| 8 | And I think that 's probably about as much as I want to say actually about the news the news interviews . |
| 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 | But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this |
| 11 | Now that would not be what one would expect er two months ago if I 'd said well look you know that 's that 's what the revolution 's gon na bring about you would 've said I do n't believe you . |
| 12 | I 'd said warily , expecting Lorne or Meadowbrook or Frank the Phone . |
| 13 | What am I going to say now ? |
| 14 | Erm , what was I going to say now ? |
| 15 | I mean , Ziggy really said as much as I meant to say all along . |
| 16 | Oh go on then , I keep saying just a small bit . |
| 17 | I know I keep saying never mind , never mind . |
| 18 | ‘ I do say so . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Hmmnn , even if I do say so myself , that is quite some job . |
| 20 | ‘ I do say so . ’ |
| 21 | A job well done , if I do say so myself . ’ |
| 22 | I interspersed my self-portraits throughout the collection and they gave the whole thing a lot of impact if I do say so myself . |
| 23 | She 's a great ship , and we 've got a pretty good medical team , even though I do say so myself . |
| 24 | Yeah , but yeah I do say so ! |
| 25 | Well I was very sad about them at the time and if you may remember , I did say publicly er that I very much hoped the Conservatives would think again and rejoin the Conservative Party . |
| 26 | ‘ I did say so , yes . ’ |
| 27 | Cos I did say earlier that universities are behind in terms of this momegliture and so is industry . |
| 28 | But I did say perhaps . |
| 29 | Erm well in in the context of what I did say yesterday it 'll come as no great surprise to anyone that like Ryedale we also accept the North Yorkshire County County figures , erm which in short we we find are based on reasonable assumptions and and and an appropriate methodology , compared to some of the more extreme interpretations and projections that have that have been put forward , if I can illustrate that point by reference to er potential building rates , that the highest figure that 's been suggested is the one put forward by Mr Grigson , of Barton Willmore , I 'm talking for the moment about Greater York generally , and I 'll come onto the Selby aspect in a minute . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's an honest man , ’ I had said trenchantly , ‘ and there are n't too many of those in politics . ’ |