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 . |