Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] says [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SO I SAYS TO HIM , OK LOUDMOUTH , LET'S SEE YOU TAKE OVER MY COMPANY ! |
| 2 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 3 | So I says to Pete , right , start as we mean to go on , I refuse to pay any more than the cleanup rate . |
| 4 | Cos it finishes at half eleven , so I says to him , oh great ! |
| 5 | And , so I says to him d' ya fancy going to fish shop ? |
| 6 | So I says to Maggie , we 'll phone insurance , I put her on t' phone , and she said he were , he were right clever with her ! |
| 7 | She wanted them so I says to her if she wanted them |
| 8 | so I said erm cos I 've been in so I says to her cos you want some fags |
| 9 | cos it was all fresh cos he was gon na get meat tomorrow and the following day , so I says to him I says well why did n't you use your cheque book ? , he says oh I never thought of that he says , cos it takes a few days to get it , he do n't know with a cheque book |
| 10 | So I says round the back or something . |
| 11 | By her next words to Dame Sirith all she says of her feelings towards Wilekin is : ( " Unless you bring me Wilekin I can never laugh nor sing nor be glad . " ) |
| 12 | So we says to him , why did n't he get a half of lager a h a bottle of Kaliber which is a half of lager non-alcohol , and put it in a pint glass . |
| 13 | And I think you can see why I call it pessimistic because , basically it says in the Anglican prayer book , there is no good in us , what 's in us is , is bad , in the sense of anti-social egoistic , and if people are going to cooperate and if there 's gon na be social order , then as it were , it has to be imposed on them . |
| 14 | Or so he says at the beginning of his book . |
| 15 | I said a bit , and I never let him know , I thought I 'll wait a little bit until he go so he says to me , he says I bet you do n't know why they put the damper in just before they 'd put the , bring the ball out do you ? |
| 16 | So he says to the oldest one he said just do ah , he said three four kick or something |
| 17 | So he says to me , see we had three wardrobes in our bedroom |
| 18 | A result , I ca n't hear myself speaking if I are the policy and resources committee there were other they were erm er in the debate there were some very good cases brought in to it and some erm good recommendations and this is why I 'm surprised I 'm er forget now why , there were some who were er against by majority because I believe that when we look down on the decisions of the P N O , we have made some very good recommendations if I say so it says on twenty , paragraph twenty in and you people on this authority , members of this authority have been saying a a clear definition of the role of the local government now and for the next twenty years , should underpin any consideration of local authority management structures and the role of members and therefore the joint working party 's consideration begin from an inadequate base . |
| 19 | Right O K yeah that 's the other major erm feature is that agriculture 's share of world trade has declined and manufacturing er share of world trade has increased and I 've got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , today it is less than fourteen percent okay , so agriculture 's share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so . |
| 20 | Anyway I says to Alice it 's not fair getting in somebody 's car feeling the way I feel I says and puking in car . |
| 21 | Thus he says of Ali , a member of Fatah , ‘ He knew I loved him , but it did n't make him the slightest bit arrogant . |
| 22 | Anyway it says in the letter that he 's got over her now . |
| 23 | yesterday I says to her , cos she goes to Redditch to college |
| 24 | So I said , Tom , like I says to Tom . |
| 25 | and later she says to him , during the same game of cards , |
| 26 | Now it says on average for , and then essentially we looked at the three main support of erm protectionist powers , like the E E C , U S A and Japan right , and they said that on average alright for every one dollar benefit alright for every one dollar benefit , one agricultural support , right it actually costs right one one fifty dollars of the general statistics in order to give a pounds worth of support to domestic farmers , we er have to find one pounds fifty right . |
| 27 | aha , well I says to Billy we 'll go shopping |
| 28 | Well I says to her , I says what , do wo n't they have a big gap ? |
| 29 | Well I says to him , I says if you were that interested I says while I 'm watching I says why do n't you come and see , I says , give us a shake |
| 30 | Well I says to him I says well make sure , well it 's five past eight he 'd get in instead of five past seven |