Example sentences of "and say [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 2 | ’ People come in and say to me that when BR is privatised you wo n't have a job and I say to them when BR is privatised you wo n't have a train . |
| 3 | They turn round and say to me , they never say Stoke on Trent , they turn round and say to me , what part of Yorkshire are you from ? |
| 4 | They turn round and say to me , they never say Stoke on Trent , they turn round and say to me , what part of Yorkshire are you from ? |
| 5 | ‘ If they had turned round and said to me , ‘ That 's a good idea , why do n't you do it for us here ? ’ |
| 6 | See , the other week there , I was on beat duty and this wee nipper , could n't have been more than 6 or 7 , came round the corner and says to me , ‘ Fuck off , ya black bastard . ’ |
| 7 | He paced it back and says to me , ‘ Where is the ball ? ’ |
| 8 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |
| 9 | And er , last time I I get in touch , me mum told me , turned round and says to me , I do n't want any more mum , I says why , he says , oh she wo n't let me have pillow and then I then I think if summat else brought to light , I kill her |
| 10 | I wish I 'd taken the money now ! finding I was pregnant scared me more than anything , because my sister Vanessa was also pregnant and saying to me , " I 'm pregnant — what am I going to do ? " |
| 11 | Oh , he 's got to get motivated cos if we 're going away we got to save some pennies up and if we commit ourselves then we 've got to save pennies up , it 's no good coming and saying to me you 're going away next week , I shall turn round and say sod you matey we 're not cos we 've got no bloody money . |
| 12 | ‘ Then he called him in a loud voice , and said to me , ‘ I think John Bunyan must be deaf . ’ |
| 13 | I was conducting Elektra in Berlin — I think it was around the time of his 75th birthday — and at the end he came and said to me it was the best performance of the opera he had ever heard . |
| 14 | Sam looked longer and said to me challengingly , ‘ Well ? ’ |
| 15 | He beamed widely as he was helped down the steps and said to me : ‘ O , gib 's nichts mehr ’ ( Do n't give us any more ) . |
| 16 | she looked sad and said to me , ‘ You are always engaged in reading and writing ; you do not see . ' ’ |
| 17 | A young pilot officer came into the office , white faced , and said to me , because I was on hand , ‘ That 's my friend out there ! ’ |
| 18 | Then she took a quick look at Vern and said to me , ‘ You must come and see my photos , Bina . |
| 19 | Er , so you can say that er Mr is a friend of pensioner 's , he said , he said he would be prepared to , what I , I , I approached him and said er , what about Harlow Caring Council , are they prepared to assist the pensioners in any way or do they wish to join in on this , oh yes he said , of course Norman he said , how much are you paying er Ron I said well his asking forty pound for the , for the morning , oh he said I 'll go half way with that , then he came out and said to me , pull me up afterwards and ask me to go to leisure services about the Tuesday , and so I 'm still following that up and hopefully we will have two days on pensioner 's week , because you want to have as much impact as possible and in a few moments , when I nearly finished here , I shall be reading you something where you 'll see that it is important that we make an impact on the people of Harlow . |
| 20 | I was walking along with my girl and I see my old man and I was scared , you know , smoking , but at the same time I did n't want to throw it away because my girl was there , you know , and she 'd see it , and I just kept on walking and my old man stopped and said to me , ‘ Give me a light ’ , and I give him a light , and he said , ‘ I 'm away to the shops ’ , and I was , you know , thinking , I can get away with this . |
| 21 | Well , there was n't much else to do in the evening until one day Mr Dowson arrived and said to me and Mrs Dowson : ‘ Now then , I 've got something for you lassies ’ , and brought in a wireless set . |
| 22 | He burnt all the papers in the box , and said to me , ‘ John , I know that I 'm going to die soon . |
| 23 | Driving to the sterilised zone in which the malais had reconstructed a thatched Danuese village complete with miniature ricebarns , one of the two Americans turned and said to me : ‘ Sir , tell me , truly , do you think the Integration has been a good thing for your country ? ’ |
| 24 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 25 | He patted her and said to me , ‘ Here you see the advantages of heredity nobly exemplified . |
| 26 | A man came and said to me , one will come with money and you will do thus and thus . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Then the Chief picked up the phone and said to me : ‘ And while we are at it , let us get those other idle bastards off their backsides . ’ |
| 28 | If my children came home and said to me that they got the cane at school I 'd have just said well you must have deserved it . |
| 29 | Do you know , it 's a most peculiar thing , a number of people who said , erm , one of our really made me laugh , a couple of Friday 's ago , came and said to me , typical , Christ , he 's done you a big favour has n't he ? |
| 30 | But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place . |