Example sentences of "say i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a way , it 's ended up being a good test to measure potentially good relationships against bad ones , because say I went out with someone and at a party they said , ‘ Sit on me lap , darling ’ , and then they said , ‘ Oh God , you 've only got one leg ’ — well , I 'd know they would n't be worth going out with ! |
| 2 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 3 | Someone gives you with something to integrate and they say I started off I differentiated something |
| 4 | And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school . |
| 5 | Some say I play down the ‘ grinding toil ’ that is an unavoidable part of it all , so I will not deny that this year it was done by a very small corps of loyal people , several from without the congregation . |
| 6 | He says I come on too strong with these men , not sexually because believe me , I do n't . |
| 7 | er and keep her company cos he was at work and the kids were in bed , and she says I went over and sat with her and had a cup of coffee and a smoke and I sat with her , you know , till she was ready for bed . |
| 8 | He says I grew up here , I went to school and I want to stay in this area . |
| 9 | She says I wrote down two Keema naans or whatever , . |
| 10 | But he says I gets on like quite well with Peter and |
| 11 | I said I added up Whisky , added up wine , nothing in , but they they watch you . |
| 12 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
| 13 | They were saying about they keep asking her because she could be like page three models in the newspaper , she was like very even this really and then she just said I keep on going toilet and she 'd , she 'd then puke up in the toilet and she 'd come back and there were all these bite marks so her parents could see when she was doing it . |
| 14 | So he said I got back on the phone to him and I said as far as I 'm concerned you can get in your car and come down here and fetch back what 's left . |
| 15 | Yeah , I said I 'd up here tomorrow did n't I ? |
| 16 | So I said I fell down a flight of stairs . |
| 17 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 18 | When I come back from bingo he said I went up the shop up the chip shop he said and got some fish and chips for my tea . |
| 19 | He said I went up to the pub he says , here 's this bloody mate of mine playing piano , he says he 's got all my gear on ! |
| 20 | You remember I said I went off looking for Nicola ? ’ |
| 21 | Bricklayer , Tony one of the town 's twelve thousand jobless said I came along to show my contempt with his government policies ! |
| 22 | Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him . |
| 23 | I said I called in to see either Michael or the secretary , Mirelda her name is . |
| 24 | It did n't appeal to me ( I do n't like cold water or caves — at least that 's my excuse , the boys said I chickened out ! ) but the others really enjoyed it . |
| 25 | He said I started off with them when I left school . |
| 26 | She said I rang back and her husband answered it . |
| 27 | Three years ago in Blackpool North West Labour Party , he said I stand up he said and people say I lose me temper . |
| 28 | She wants this doll , well Julie got it yesterday and said I phoned up , she said you 've got ta listen to this she said I 've just put a battery in when you want to hear it cry . |
| 29 | In Rachel Webb 's case this meant losing the right to see her daughter , ’ The judge said I gave up my rights as a parent the day I had my operation ’ . |
| 30 | I 'd like to say I walked over to check it out ; I did n't run there , but my mind did . |