Example sentences of "say [vb mod] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not stopping people doing it , because people ring me up and say should I do it ? |
| 2 | I 'll walk into a French bank and say can I exchange these back to sterling and they 'll say oh yes and then charge me five hundred fucking francs again or whatever it is. no five nines , nine eighteen twenty seven thirty six forty five francs . |
| 3 | And I say can I go to Hertford please and they did n't ask me how old I was , they just like the next thing I knew I was whacked out this six hundred quid ticket . |
| 4 | That 's right , I mean you , you looked in , in , in , if you had a fire out in the sticks somewhere , you 'd look to see where the telephone was , where if there were any , and then knock on somebody 's door perhaps , at two o'clock in the morning and say can I use your telephone , and they were n't very happy sometimes I can tell you . |
| 5 | You put these people on oxygen therapy for days and days and days , they come off and say can I have a cigarette ? |
| 6 | Do n't mean you can come up to me and say can I have ten grams of smack please Cassie all right . |
| 7 | Angela , I 've rung Angela this morning cos Geoff says will I ring her and sort it out and she just said just alter it . |
| 8 | He er was n't the lender , he was the borrower , he went to the bank , says can I borrow this collection of treasury bonds , which he has to put pension fund assets to stock , so he 's immediately er going against his duty as a trustee cos it 's costing the pension fund money this er er excess of five to ten per cent . |
| 9 | What happened to all these girlfriends and this person that had phoned up on Stephen phoned up er it 's Wednesday right , and Stephen phoned up Tuesday and twenty five to eleven and says can I talk to Stephen , says hang on a minute who is it ? |
| 10 | I asked the gaffer I says can I get out ? |
| 11 | Well , I went home and I got another job and it , then I went back , I says can I have me card ? |
| 12 | She says can I have a tissue so |
| 13 | I did well , I had hundred pound in me purse last night till Steve says can I have me pocket money and can I have me petrol and can I have this and I paid for coal and I 've got forty . |
| 14 | He did n't say , and I says can I take a message ? |
| 15 | So once you 've done it you ca n't sell any more even though there are two or three people in the wings saying can I go into it . |
| 16 | another fortnight saying can I give another fortnight . |
| 17 | You know , the beginning when I said may I smoke ? |
| 18 | I had a paper to say and they said there was too much money coming in here a week , because you were working that I could n't get anything and I , it said , I wrote , it , it all come when I wrote to say could I have relief off of prescriptions cos I was on that H I V at the time |
| 19 | He said could I come to the station . |
| 20 | Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon . |
| 21 | than my job then he said I presume you 've got mixed feelings , I said no my feelings are n't mixed up at all , I 'm quite , I 'm quite sure of my feelings of what I know , I said David I would n't associate myself , I would n't drink and I would n't go out with anybody in this building and he nearly fell over and he said dare I ask why ? |
| 22 | No , you said would I bring it up at this meeting . |
| 23 | They give you something for that cos I m the B B C asked me once to , they knocked the door and said would I make a note of all the programmes for one week and just put my opinion , it was just four different , you know , |
| 24 | So why John said would I show you how to truss nice , I do n't wish to learn thank you ! |
| 25 | Well she said would I tell anybody |
| 26 | Then he said would I move a little bit to the right so that he could see me because the edges of the picture distort . |
| 27 | It 's it is a nationwide survey on spoken English erm there 's a somebody approached me today and said would I carry a tape around for a week and record people talking . |
| 28 | They pho , phoned last night and said would I collect some stuff from someone in so |
| 29 | I told him about Charlotte and he said would I describe her , in the smallest detail that I could . |
| 30 | There was n't any new town or anything and er they 'd built those er Council houses in the front in and he also erm , he said would I like a nice new house , to have plenty of hot water for the boys for bathing and everything , so I moved into a four bedroom and er I was there , er brought my family up there for , till er , unfortunately my mother came to live with me and unfortunately erm I had to go away erm because I was n't very well on a holiday and I was called back cos she was found dead on the toilet my poor mother and er after that erm I came back and erm , in the middle of the week from holiday , oh bother it will it be okay ? |