Example sentences of "say to i [adv] " in BNC.

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1 And er again , when we get to year fifteen , I get one or two clients who say to me well actually the Norwich have just sent me a bonus record through and I 've actually got nine thousand in the pot already , I think I 'll pay the mortgage off .
2 I said if you said to me , Geoff , I want all the overtime I can get I can get the overtime I 'll go round and I 'll try and or if you say to me well I do n't want the overtime , I 'm quite happy with a flat week then I 'll know what I am but I said you change from day to day , one day you wann it , another day you do n't !
3 she says she says to me just take thirty pound , the , there were , I think there 's about seven quid that belongs to their bed , well their bed was bloody horrible to pay
4 ‘ The first lesson on entering this house , Katherine , is that you must take only half of what your father says to me seriously , ’ the Princesse responded in kind .
5 All he says to me now is , ‘ Just make sure you 're there for me . ’
6 ‘ My husband , Scottie , says to me almost daily : ‘ Will you retire tomorrow darling ? ’ and I say , No thank you .
7 It 's like the girls said to me today , erm just before the end of I 'm doing it again !
8 I can say that you know , lots of heads and deputies ten years ago would have said to me well , what is a pen I mean what pension do I get ?
9 Well , you could , no you can ask yourself , you can ask yourself , because you 've said to me very clearly that you do not regard yourself as ever speaking for yourself , surely you can now think , would I ever want to answer a question like that ?
10 Well I think what people have said to me very often about the Community Charge is that they can see the er they can see the point of having a community charge which everybody pays and which actually brings in to the local taxation system the hundreds of thousands of people who were previously not paying any rates at all but were benefiting from local services .
11 It was only much later that I remembered my speech had been more or less word for word something my dad had said to me once .
12 In one shape or size this was said to me often in writing this book , and always by women and girls themselves .
13 And she rang me this morning for , well er it was so comical cos Gemma had said to me yesterday you know what about the holiday and I said sure that does n't have to be paid till the end of the month and erm you sure before we go into this ?
14 An Archbishop in the hierarchy has said to me recently oh I feel the pain but Rome does not permit it .
15 It was said to me recently , by a railway enthusiast , no less , that , when you have a car , the only cost in using it is the petrol .
16 saying to me right , as a parent you choose a qualification , you like pulling out your personal C V , and as a educationalist that literacy is a high-falooting word ?
17 Fiona was saying to me today at school , oh Emma can I have a bit of your height please ?
18 Having r you see I 've had clients saying to me well , I 'm not sure about this one .
19 I remember my mother saying to me once , she says er , I 've got a lovely dinner for you today , my duck .
20 Erm right so what you 're saying to me then basically is that er as long as my references are acceptable
21 Er and Mark was saying to me yesterday
22 She said to me just say to him like I do enough Vaughany , do n't want to hear any more .
23 The Mayor , Mayoress said to me well we 'll find you something but
24 But basically , the man that , you know , my father said to me well he said to where 's the horses ?
25 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
26 dear oh dear , and she said to me well they can get these crook locks , they 've only got to a , they 've only got to bend the steering wheel , I said will
27 well your mum said to me well I 'll tell you the same as I 've told Con but I said I 'm not against the children or anything the children
28 ’ There ’ , Mala said to me firmly .
29 Sam looked longer and said to me challengingly , ‘ Well ? ’
30 ‘ I said , ’ Daffodil said to me distinctly , ‘ would you bring me a clean knife ?
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