Example sentences of "as [pers pn] be say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as I was saying about all this , you 're saying What did my Mother do to eke it out ? |
| 2 | Oh well as I er , as I was saying about th this aunt that stayed with me , er she once er saw a , well I do n't know whether she actually seen it or not , but she 'd seen the results of it , of a tinker 's divorce , and this man killed this horse and threw his wife on top of it and that was him divorced . |
| 3 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 4 | . Oh no , as I was saying to Reed the other day , er Reed has joined our class by the way . |
| 5 | And as I was saying to Terry Heselton over coffee it could be Selby looking for its two hundred and fifty hectares . |
| 6 | But as I was saying to George the other day |
| 7 | As I was saying to me mam like , all these John Major and that , they 're all going on about what they 're gon na do . |
| 8 | And that was I it was , as I was saying in early January . |
| 9 | And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing . |
| 10 | Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective . |
| 11 | Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective . |
| 12 | Whereas if we go on the back of something else or somebody else as as you were saying on on the back of a wedding er brochure or something like that , in other words , go down down a specialized avenue rather than a general one , you might achieve something better . |
| 13 | But I think one of the things that men are afraid of is that when women get into the things the attitudes change , as we were saying about bigotry and religion and so on with football , I do n't think that men want that because this is the perfect club they can enjoy and indulge all that , but if women really get into it the thing will change as society does . |
| 14 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |
| 15 | Now , the constitution as it " really " is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , only really line up in times of political ( and therefore constitutional ) stability when there is agreement on clear and simple constitutional fundamentals . |
| 16 | There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one . |
| 17 | As it is said in the East , ‘ only by seeking , can one find ’ . |
| 18 | Soon it would be said in England as it was said on the Continent , that a good Catholic is a man whose wife goes to church . |
| 19 | In the village of Portlethen , some 15 miles outside Aberdeen , the main line station was closed many years ago as it was said to be uneconomic . |
| 20 | In the period since the Second World War , political stability , economic growth , and a broad societal consensus , meant that the constitution as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , were all seen as of one , pulling together in mutual support in a way that called for " no change " . |
| 21 | Simply expressed , the set-up as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , had all pulled apart in a way that called for change . |
| 22 | As he 's said of his ill-fated time at Virgin Records , ‘ I had to keep telling people they 're not going to make me into the next Sting . ’ |