Example sentences of "would say [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and of initial like instead of saying them they 'd say just say em . |
| 2 | And he 'd say just take a look through he said just any one you want he said and I 'll programme it that 'll come straight through and he sort of s six speakers fucking ridiculous . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know whether you 're one of those who are interested in such things — from what I know of you I 'd say probably not . |
| 4 | " Nice young chap , " he 'd say casually afterwards , in Oxford Street or somewhere . |
| 5 | But miracles do happen and to anyone who feels like giving up , I 'd say please keep trying . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not the right example , Captain Simcox , ’ he 'd say aggrievedly , the musical Scots burr belying the complaint in his voice . |
| 7 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 8 | And I 'd say well if there are two parents there whether it 's whether they 're married or whether they 're not , the parents are there together , it was shared equally . |
| 9 | You 'd say well what am I trained to do ? |
| 10 | And instead of er having half day every day cos there were no prospects of , of much stuff coming through , they 'd say well we 'll all have two weeks off each . |
| 11 | That he 'd do that in the morning as a little part time job for 'em , and all he 'd do is erm , the Pool Manager , which is at Lock Gates , he know what ships come in the day before and he really know the man and then in the morning they 'd say well so and so ship has arrived but perhaps he might know it , then he 'd send , he 'd know what men to send and this , cos I , I used to get the latest information , they did n't worry him , they worried me about lates latest information and of course we knew what ships was due for the next day so we knew what allocation we wanted . |
| 12 | Erm and then okay you , a bit later on you 'd say well yes w we , we need to be a bit careful about this erm we must n't be too hard on , on the middle peasant etcetera . |
| 13 | Each , each customer come out and she 'd say well I 'll have er three or four lamb chops or a couple of pork chops or whatsoever and you used to cut it as you went , then , with a van yeah . |
| 14 | W w w we can see , you can visualise from now if we start it now , you 'd say well , everyone now knows that if anything goes wrong , this is what they will have to pay , but how are you going to take it back ? |
| 15 | They do n't ca they do n't care I used to say that a if I said that to Steven pack it in , somebody will hear , he 'd say well open the bloody windows and let them hear ! |
| 16 | I 'd say well as time goes on you throw old ones out do n't you ? |
| 17 | Well she was staying overnight at some wee girl 's house and I 'd say well that 's alright as long as you 're as long as , you know , that know the wee girl 's mother maybe , she 's a daughter a wee bit older than Lindsey herself who had the , but no this mother see she was divorced and going with these men and let her daughter stay out to half eleven , and Lindsey was , n was n't in her house till half eleven . |
| 18 | but she was getting there , her and Bren were er conferring you see I 'd sort of gone through what I 'd done and every now and again she 'd say well I 've done this and I 'd say well it 's right . |
| 19 | but she was getting there , her and Bren were er conferring you see I 'd sort of gone through what I 'd done and every now and again she 'd say well I 've done this and I 'd say well it 's right . |
| 20 | It would n't be , I would n't say oh no you ca n't have it , but I 'd say well you 'll receive it in a couple of days time and if they said oh well that 's not good enough , then fair enough , you , you know . |
| 21 | You 'll have to go into the branch , but what , if I was your manager , I 'd say well what we 'll do , is keep on working and training , until it 's alright |
| 22 | So you 'd say well we must have let let's say that I was n't being that helpful |
| 23 | Then you 'd say well here 's our pie we 're going to share it out between ten people tonight . |
| 24 | Okay so that 's how you , that 's how you 'd do three quarters you 'd say well I could find a quarter of it and then cut it all up into quarters and then I 'll take three pieces , three quarters . |
| 25 | Then he 'd say OK and give us some . |
| 26 | That 's what I 'd say anyway . |
| 27 | He 'd tell him , he 'd get his orders from the office , cos the Deputy Harbourmaster he would go down all the sound he sound in river and see what wanted taken out , then he 'd say to my father I 'll dredge at so and so belo below docksill and docksill what they used to do they used to , my father what he 'd do he 'd put stakes on the mud , a short stake and a long stake on account of the tide and he 'd , he 'd make an imaginary on that stake , then he 'd go ashore at Wolverston , phone up what have you got on your docksill , the fella might say it 's ten feet , well he 'd say right we 'll make that twenty feet , so that 's er , that 's what he used to work on to dredge the river . |
| 28 | So for example if I was doing Saint Paul 's I 'd say right erm erm I 'm a building in the City of London , very old , very big and extremely famous on of the most obvious things that really stand out about me is my very large domed roof with a little cross on top of it . |
| 29 | When I was a trainee my deputy fresh foods went it with me , and like he 'd sit there and he 'd say right this is how you do it at first and then he 'd let me do some and well I 'd do them and he 'd say why have you done that and I 'd tell him and then he 'd let me do it |
| 30 | If I had a swelling like that come up on my ankle I 'd say right go to the doctors . |