Example sentences of "[pers pn] as i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as I as I told you before , we was on the main concourse , heard the glass smashed , we come down a stairwell on , come round the back , saw the two , or saw two persons in the back garden , asked them what they were doing buy which time the the curtain went up in smoke , well up in flames . |
| 2 | Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them . |
| 3 | If we fail to take this opportunity Mr Mayor , as I as I feel we are about to do I am a hundred percent convinced that in years to come people will look back at this year , or however long it happens to be and say they missed out on a golden opportunity to make social , to make more houses and to make social housing better in this city and across the country . |
| 4 | you know , how that change has taken place and I as I say we we were we were compared to some we were well off , we 'd got a tap in the house.So many people had n't even got a tap they were in the yard , and that tap was shared by a dozen families . |
| 5 | yeah , you know quite hopeful so what I as I say what I 'm really looking for is I 've got a preference for older properties but you know try not to pin myself down to too much at the moment , I 've got about a hundred and thirty to spend so ideally I 'd like a cottage old style but I do need three bedrooms |
| 6 | And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school . |
| 7 | But I As I say I were young and I would n't have been paying particular attention . |
| 8 | Erm n I as I say I could n't see her the bed it was it was a duvet and . |
| 9 | But I as I say I go in there |
| 10 | No really no I as I say I we when I came down here |
| 11 | I do n't know how , I , I as I say I ca n't figure it out how they work it out though because I mean are they |
| 12 | Well as I as I read it the Co you have n't made any allowance for conversions , you 've made an assumption that part of the housing figure will be met by conversions . |
| 13 | Yes , I mean several points that you 've raised , and these are things that I 've picked up from the newspapers and I 'll make the point , I 'm no expert but I as I understand it , the allied erm forces have erm substantially greater number of aircraft in the area than the Iraqi airforce had , so that 's one point . |
| 14 | This was innovation all the time just for economy 's sake , you you as I say you you just could n't afford , although you could buy er a beautiful pair of shoes for twelve and six , that was a lot of money . |
| 15 | As we as I approached them , I saw flames coming from the the curtains . |
| 16 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 17 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 18 | I can still picture him as I knew him , his sensitive , ascetic face etched with lines of pain but lit by his innate kindliness , his lean body in comfortable country tweeds . |
| 19 | I still remember him as I saw him then . |
| 20 | I shall beam on him as I serve him lunch and if the old bastard is particularly unpleasant I 'll be able to reflect on how bad he 'll feel when he 's unmasked . |
| 21 | ‘ You must be careful , ’ I tell him as I fan his head with my script . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not answering these questions any more , ’ I said to him as I took my plate to the sink . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're too proud , ’ I scolded him as I brushed his black hair . |
| 24 | I wrote it all down I asked him as I wrote it down . |
| 25 | And in those cases the woman has n't loved him as I love you ! ’ |
| 26 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
| 27 | I remember it as I saw it one evening , lit by the setting sun against a background of threatening clouds . |
| 28 | He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it . |
| 29 | Anyway you can have it as I got it . |
| 30 | Erm , it as I say it does n't provide for the the uses we 've just discussed and in my , I do n't want to get too entangled in the statistics of it , the main point I want to make is that |