Example sentences of "[conj] i say [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilkinson , who has cajoled and bullied to knock Cantona into shape , joked that the language barrier is still there because ‘ If I 'm saying nice things about him he seems to understand — if I suggest he works harder or I say nasty things , he finds that harder to comprehend . ’ |
| 2 | And that I say that picture has appeared on everything , even on china , I think you can buy some at erm ca n't you even with that on it . |
| 3 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 4 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 5 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 6 | and er , she said oh yes please and I said fifteen minutes you know , she said , since I 've seen the Solicitor I feel a different person , I said you look different , you look ten years younger , she said everybody 's telling me I look ten years younger . |
| 7 | I went like that on top and I said bloody work ! |
| 8 | And erm I took it to the park with Jack and he kept pulling and I said bloody dog ! |
| 9 | ‘ If he does , it would mean that I 'm still playing at 40 and I said many years ago that I felt that was possible . |
| 10 | They are going along at vast speeds , and I say vast speeds , they 're twenty miles an hour over the grass and you can imagine how much they 're cutting . |
| 11 | That was the quite enlarged quite enlarged er sidings , erm these have n't been changed here , but additional sidings on this side er and I say that curve up here . |
| 12 | Erm and I say this view is , is in some respects being er erm er expressed relatively early on . |
| 13 | So I 've just got ten records on this file and I say those words carefully because you 've got ta distinguish between record , file and field . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd be a liar if I said this sort of thing has not crossed my mind , ’ says Knight . |
| 15 | If I say one morning while looking out of my window , The sky is blue , then I am using this sentence deictically . |
| 16 | Well I think , like I said two ways one is erm |
| 17 | but like I said nine times out of ten if I 've got pissed off with an album I change all of them . |
| 18 | Like I said twenty miles an hour that |
| 19 | Like I said last week , I would go for Andy Hinchcliffe down the left instead of Peter Beagrie . |
| 20 | Well she , like I say next year , if they 're not paying double time she 's gon na get no one to work is she ? |
| 21 | I says cos I said that fellow I says my husband 's mother for years I says , in fact and old photographs in the house we have of and his wife and a whole crowd . |
| 22 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 23 | Then people , for some ideological reason , people might say , well , you know , you ca n't say one form of communication is better than another , so that say , I do n't know , I suppose , a kind of feminist belief is better than Paradise Lost or something — well , it might be more acceptable to some people for various reasons , but I say some writing is more rewarding , ultimately some things are better than other things . |
| 24 | If you 're here because I said certain things about you after the race , you can sod off back south right now . ’ |
| 25 | What I meant was when I said five proposals |
| 26 | When I said that spike went up his trouser leg and shouted and up and at them ! |
| 27 | Old did n't believe me when I said this afternoon . |
| 28 | And when I say stout supports , I mean stout . |
| 29 | ‘ But I do n't know what I mean when I say that word . |
| 30 | Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ? |