Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] say i " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although I said I was reasonably Spartan , this bare Nissen hut and my little windy bivouac pall a bit at times . |
| 2 | Now going back to this handicraft , although I said I really did n't want to be committed to all the meetings , I 'm quite happy to carry on with the handicraft , providing you do n't expect me to turn up at every meeting . |
| 3 | So I have been away longer than I said I would be , and Mr Shah is a little surprised at my dereliction . |
| 4 | I no more say who I am in this case than I say I 'm off to my wife 's right in the lost-in-cloud case . |
| 5 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 6 | When they saw Ruth , both men looked slightly abashed , like a pair of overgrown schoolboys , and Connor explained : ‘ This young man wants to learn the rudiments of sparring , so I said I 'd give him a few pointers . |
| 7 | Mr Jaggers told me Miss Havisham wished to see me on business , so I said I would go the next day . |
| 8 | ‘ He asked me to marry him , ’ I said at last , ‘ so I said I would . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Cook 's sister 's not well , not at all and she 's gone into Inverary to look to her family , so I said I 'd get dinner . |
| 10 | ‘ She needs help with the preparations for this wedding , so I said I 'd lend you . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ So I said I 'd see them in a few days . |
| 12 | Course , I were ba I were n't very well yesterday so I said I 'm not very well , but I had pains as well , back pain and all all |
| 13 | It would be too late so she said I really want to go because we went out last night you know |
| 14 | That 's right , and she , she retired Friday so she said I must get you in before Friday cos I 'm going round Thursday morning |
| 15 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 16 | at least you 'll live in the land of luxury , so she said I might just do that , so , well I 'm not getting involved , let them sort it out |
| 17 | Yeah , and that wa , she said well it 's an insurance job she said well it do n't matter , you stand the first hundred pound and then erm then the VAT so she said I dread to think what the price of the job were on the insurance ! |
| 18 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 19 | Aye , so she says I do n't think I 'll bother I just put it in a bargain |
| 20 | I forget the country , I could n't remember Eileen was laughing , so she says I do n't know how Kevin would be , I do n't know whether it 's today , he 's gone she said , he 's had to have one up his bum |
| 21 | I went back to the dining car to find Oliver and Cathy laying the tables for dinner , and I helped them automatically , although they said I need n't . |
| 22 | ‘ It took quite a while to stitch me up , but everything 's all right now , although they say I 've lost a lot of blood from the placental bleed . ’ |
| 23 | Reverend thought oh yes he 'd be very very glad of you , so he said I 'd be prepared to visit the sick , I 'd do anything like that and he did in fact start doing some visiting , and among other people that he called upon was a person living in Road , not very far really from where I 'd been born and I knew the area well . |
| 24 | he said well so he said I 'll give you this one . |
| 25 | that he just received them like , about half an hour before Mike rang up , so he said I 've got to get me secretary to type them out and then we , I 'll send them to you and we 've got to sign 'em , then what happens from there ? |
| 26 | So he said erm I said to the woman I went to the court this morning so he said when you explain to me he said I 've got money in my pockets cos I borrowed it from dad tha he said I owed sixty two pound so he said I said to the woman in the court how can I pay this the sixty two pounds when you 've frozen my account ? |
| 27 | Yeah no he was just saying that head office they 'll dictate to them like anybody else so he said I 've got to have erm the mortgage up to date for a start before I can consider anything . |
| 28 | So he said alright so he come in and had his dinner so he said I said we ought to be going this week for a ride out instead of last week . |
| 29 | Well the bugger is just coming on and he was cleaning the car down hosing her car so he says I turned the hose on him . |
| 30 | Ryan he says it 's foolish , cards , he says mum when you just , you just put them somewhere and forget where you put them , so he says I 've decided to buy you oh this looks a lovely one |