Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Say I know say I know the order was high for today on drums .
2 Mind you , I still say I like the reds .
3 Sportier yeah well as you say I mean a lot of these words you would n't want chancing yourself , would you ?
4 sat here with Marcus and I said oh , I got a , got a flash , and he say I got a flash or something
5 I do n't know whether , people thought that erm if they interfered with me I would n't er I would n't play or what it was but then , anyway erm when the war ended , as I say I got a bit erm worried and erm I then got in touch with er Mr who was then er , then taken over from Sir Cecil Clerk of the Council or Chief Executive and erm , he suggested that erm I might take a course for the erm Home Workers Diploma For The Blind which erm was , well it was a sort of specialized er social worker really .
6 He said : ‘ I got Peter for £1 million and when you look at the lack of quality around today I would not argue when people say I got a bargain .
7 What I think we had , and not me personally , as I say I had no proposals , but what I think some members of our group may have had was statements about what the Liberal Democrats were prepared to do , so there has n't been a negotiation , but it certainly has n't been a rejection of listening on our part erm .
8 How many people go back home and say I had an affair ?
9 They say I had the vanity to suppose that I might marry him .
10 They say I had the vanity to go down to Croisset and make an embarrassing scene on his doorstep .
11 They say I had the vanity to suppose that he and I might one day share the authorship of some literary work .
12 So I take my time , not asking if he wants Cellophane gift-wrapping but just doing it really slowly and then I say I done the VAT wrong .
13 ‘ Because of that , the superstitious say I met the fairies and went to live with them for nine years .
14 Oh yes and er what I , I did n't I , say I told a lie .
15 . So the nest day I s As I say I slammed the phone down
16 Er and er I say I signed the pledge never to touch intoxicating liquors , which I kept for until I was thirty five .
17 When people are upset , I always say I have a headache and that takes their mind off their troubles .
18 Cos I think it 's got everything possible , cos I want , say I want a door reef
19 But is it up to them to actually go to D S S and say I want a payment now ?
20 say I want a pound an hour
21 If you phone in t erm the Talking Yellow Pages and say I need a conference centre in Derbyshire , they 'll probably tell you that one .
22 Say she had a win on the bingo and sent me my fare — God knows she 'd never have the money else .
23 gone , say she had a limit of eight hundred and think oh well I 'll do some more shopping oh can you up it another three or four hundred
24 Say you put a foot wrong , are you not game to be coursed and spoiled , like other women , that I listen to you like a craven creature as I am ? ’
25 Well as I say you 've no need to stay late late .
26 ‘ You 've practically exiled yourself from your family and your home and your friends , you think you 've failed your finals but you say you 've no intention of sitting your re-sits even if you have ; you 've no money and you have n't even been looking for a job ; you 're getting done for shop-lifting and you 're acting like such a fucking dick-head you seem determined to get shot of the last few pals you do have left … and all you can do is make smart-ass remarks . ’
27 ‘ You say you had a drink at Oxford Station ? ’
28 But the thing I think , no but like with drugs , say you had a talk on it class of like removes
29 And yet you say you had a letter did n't you again .
30 I think it 's covered for like , like you say , like for some reason , say you had a fire , and you had to stop work .
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