Example sentences of "do [conj] i say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh she said it 's silly making him do that I said er very quickly I said , I said do n't get me wrong I said for kids who enjoy going to that sort of thing it 's great and fine if it 's alright |
| 2 | I rushed him to hospital and the doctor asked how it was done and I said he 'd fallen over on the step . |
| 3 | , 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 |
| 4 | And they all said now look is there anything we can do and I said no , it 's not , if you 're coming to me as far as I 'm concerned I will do it , you need anything and I will cope . |
| 5 | If you had done as I said , and given the keys to the princess , you would now be dressed in silk , sitting at her left hand . |
| 6 | So why do n't you do as I say and drop it ? |
| 7 | As such , they are part of an extremely ancient tradition for Assyrian mothers who used to scare recalcitrant children with the scarecrow Narses ; and a warning widely repeated today is very similar : ‘ You 'd better do as I say , or the boogeyman will get you . ’ |
| 8 | " Fiver , why not do as I say ? |
| 9 | Paul will do as I say . |
| 10 | ‘ To make him do as I say , not as he thinks he should do . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd better do as I say , Shih Herrick and get me out of here . |
| 12 | ‘ Will you do as I say , Fei Yen ? |
| 13 | ‘ But you 'll do as I say and undo this little mistake , ’ he said swiftly , as if it were a foregone conclusion . |
| 14 | So you 'll do as I say , when and where I say . |
| 15 | " You 're paid to do as I say . " |
| 16 | For the moment , at least , you 're going to do as I say . ’ |
| 17 | And then when I went up home , I 'd have took them out and put them in the fridge and she says what are you doing and I says well that 's a couple of day 's meat for you and she says no no take that off home , take that off home , I 've and I says no that 'll do you . |
| 18 | Of his talk with Mr Yeltsin , Mr Clinton said : ‘ We just talked about what he was doing and I said I supported democracy and free-market economics in Russia . ’ |
| 19 | I said to her when , when he was finished I said it 's good enough cos you 're sure what you you 're doing but I said |
| 20 | And I told y I said to y er before he did that I said , would it cause a client a problem if we gave them back some money ? |
| 21 | Diana replied : ‘ He did and I said : ‘ Yes please ’ ' . |
| 22 | you know , and they 're always , she said well get on , yeah I know we do but I said I just do n't want you know |
| 23 | Erm one , one of the statements that you did come out with when you , when you were saying about erm why you were there , you said about to make sure that your policy is performing how you wish it to which is as good a one as I did when I said you 're obviously satisfied with , with your Friends Provident contract cos we 're brilliant erm Martin asked the question about why has the , why has the bonus gone down and , and you overcame that objection er which was good and he , he was , he was satisfied with that . |
| 24 | " Do as I said . |
| 25 | Do as I say . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do as I say , ’ he replied , ‘ and I 'll make you the best-dressed , most beautiful woman at the ball . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Damn well do as I say . |
| 28 | Do as I say . ’ |
| 29 | Again , there is nothing wrong with it except that it is " do as I say " and not " let's find out what is right for you " . |
| 30 | ‘ Do as I say , and we 'll be together . |