Example sentences of "[pron] said i [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I would fast unless he let me come upstairs . |
| 2 | Yeah , I said I would probably get you some . |
| 3 | My mother argued for a while that the dry heat was known to be bracing , but Lili went on to speak of rumours of a cholera epidemic in the rural districts and disaffection among the fellahin and I said I would rather go to Bournemouth , which was a black lie but efficacious since we had gone there for our holidays and my mother seemed gratified that I should wish to return . |
| 4 | ‘ I said I would never forget . |
| 5 | I said I would never go back again |
| 6 | I rang him up before I went down and said I would n't be going in , I said I 'll just drop it off for you I says , cos er there 's me and June full of cold , it 's no good letting Ben get it is it ? |
| 7 | I take a deep breath , ‘ I said I could probably write a story about my own death . ’ |
| 8 | I said I 'd just tap him on the shoulder and say : ‘ It 's all right . ’ |
| 9 | He did offer to come to Oxford , but I said I 'd rather do it in London . |
| 10 | ‘ But I wanted it all to be as it used to be so I said I 'd rather do it myself . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 12 | ‘ I said I 'd never ask 'im for anything . ’ |
| 13 | But I was asked the same thing after Duncton Wood came out , I said I 'd never do another and I 've written five more . |
| 14 | , and I called to Dinda one day look , gosh yeah trying and get a shot of him on a camera , she said I would too , she said try it from upstairs in my bedroom . |
| 15 | you see Sister makes all these arrangements , it 's she who does so many of the arrangements , she has made the arrangements about there being no coffee , several people have come to me and said I do n't know why you 've got to stop coffee because we can always go over and have lunch anyway , you know , er after the coffee , but Jean came to me she said look I 'm giving you this , and she gave me three pounds , she said I would much rather that was put into this , there your charity thing than take it across the hall , she said my Margaret wo n't go over there any more , because they , they say , you know , put in for your lunch what it would cost |
| 16 | And she said I 'll probably come . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | It 's not often they come back from work she said they feel I ca n't , not yet , she said I could never my housework and that 's too much yeah she likes to do |
| 19 | You said I 'll soon find out . |
| 20 | ‘ You said I 'd never see you again ! ’ |
| 21 | Now I began to wonder if my friends had not been right when they said I would never see him again . |
| 22 | They said I could only stay one week , but I stayed there for two , and they did n't know . |
| 23 | They said I 'd never make a manager . |
| 24 | They said I 'd never know pain again , or hunger . |
| 25 | Cos I asked them about it , and they said I 'd much rather be doing that . |
| 26 | They parked their two bikes outside the round door over at the Lion , came in , one ordered two drinks and he said I 'll just nip across to phone . |
| 27 | She said and Bobby says she do n't he said I was laying on the floor the other night and she came down beside with me and put her arm round me as we were laying there he said I 'll never do anything he said cos if you started playing about with her she 'll , you know childlike and and he said she would n't erm show her affection any more . |
| 28 | and his mate had one and he had the other one and he said I 'll never be able to use them he said and they 're in the way , can you do anything with them ? |
| 29 | All sorts of different people he said I would never ever buy any beans he said cos of this chappie who used to work they used to unless you change over the tin or something he used to spit in the tins . |
| 30 | He said I should never have been sent there . |