Example sentences of "say i have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When people are upset , I always say I have a headache and that takes their mind off their troubles .
2 He says I have a feeling that Irma was a special case .
3 I said well we had I said I had a bit of a run in with the lady who ran it , I did n't agree that he should be compelled to do singing which she thought he should I said and we had a decided it cos he .
4 ‘ Are you saying I have a choice , Madame ? ’
5 She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did .
6 For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry .
7 Now , I must confess I had n't seen much of Mr Wogan before I met him because , when I got my television set at Low Birk Hatt , Richard Megstone , the nice young gentleman who looked after the Youth Hostel in Baldersdale and kindly took care of my electrical things , said I had a choice — either BBC1 or Channel 4 .
8 ‘ One day he returned home to Chamalières and said I had a job with Michel and Pierre for £1.50 a month .
9 She said I had a letter this morning
10 Who said I had a chip ?
11 huh , I could n't believe it , I mean he 's been that thick and she says how old are you and he says thirty five , when she 's gone , when he 's gone she said blimey I thought he was forty five did n't ya ? , she said yeah , I said he ai n't wearing very well is he ? , then this woman come in and she was , she 'd had an operation and one of her stitches had n't dissolved and she said I have a shower instead of a bath , perhaps that 's why and Sue says yes that 's why because you need water to dissolve a stitch , so any way she said to her how old are you , she says thirty seven and Sue says
12 Jeans , but clean and spruce and I said I have a feeling they could have been police .
13 Then , a few days after I got back from Oxford , I got a telegram to say I had a scholarship .
14 ‘ I did think you could say I had a cold because you know how frightened Gran is of catching colds .
15 ‘ Would you say I had a lantern jaw ? ’
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