Example sentences of "as [pron] say [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you believe in public transport , as everyone says they do , this development is inescapable and very desirable . |
| 2 | We got so close , but as someone said it 's better to have tried than not . ’ |
| 3 | Mind you it 'll probably be fine and anyway as someone said it 'll be good to widen the group a bit more and launch some journalistic careers into the bargain ( -> ) . |
| 4 | Er but you get the feeling that if he does n't score then as I said nobody else can . |
| 5 | It is detailed alright but as I said what they 've written is detailed enough but they 've missed out erm various things that we needed to know |
| 6 | So cos I said to Lynn as I said what I 'll do , I 'll go slow then one of you 'll have to put it out cos there 'll be so much work to wrap up I should be taking it home with me to do it . |
| 7 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 8 | As I said we may not have a set up but if we have n't we 'll set one now . |
| 9 | Yeah some things has , as I said we work off these er graph papers and they , they do them now by computer . |
| 10 | I managed to keep afloat then till , as I said we found this half a lifeboat and there was couple of fellows and er I managed to swim over to that and pull myself up on it and for there the inflatable off the standby boat came alongside , picked us up and put us on then standby boat . |
| 11 | As as I said we 're we 're not very formal but er you know that also has its especially if people that er maybe erm , how can I put it , are not used t taking everything back to a meeting and you know they maybe make a decision and go ahead with it and then it gets shouted at a bit but I think we we can all take being shouted at a bit as well . |
| 12 | But w as I said we did because we did n't have a pig . |
| 13 | to climb the stairs , and I think then you tend to panic a bit , I and I felt most of the time I felt fine , and then you see getting up at five o'clock yesterday morning , by the time I got off , it was your father that fell asleep on that last drinking session , but I mean , as I said we ai n't used to drinking in the day like that |
| 14 | As I said we can talk about half a dozen Adam Faiths . |
| 15 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 16 | He might say " Things are exactly as I said they are " . |
| 17 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 18 | But as I said they need have no fear . |
| 19 | I know but as I said they have you by the short and curlies . |
| 20 | Just as I said they just phoned , Kenny just phoned and said are you coming horseracing ? |
| 21 | Er n back to these snaps that erm John takes but as I said they 're pictures of the rooms before he alters them , before he puts in a new decor , th the upholstery , furnishings and the erm |
| 22 | as I said they 're all little letters S A I D , said |
| 23 | you know it 's not , not , it 's not like Benidorm or anything like that it 's it 's somewhere like , it 's about seven miles away from the sea , but as I said they |
| 24 | At the sight of him I would smell the dust of the confessional and remember the mixture of boredom , shame and relief as I said my penances . |
| 25 | as I said my son 's taken care of from that point |
| 26 | And as I said he gets blacklisted and he left Derbyshire and come down to Nottingham to work . |
| 27 | As I said you ca n't envisage or set up emergency procedures for anything as as drastic as what happened there that night . |
| 28 | The Race Relations Act says that you can do this you can have courses especially for black or Asian people so as I said you have to be unemployed you have to be black or Asian and you have to live in either Radford Hyson Green St Annes Lenton or Snainton . |
| 29 | I mean everybody knew what was going on , they might have had their own interpretations of what they 'd been told , but that happens , and as I said you know , every decision was voted on by the full lodge of the three quarries . |
| 30 | As I said you mention it may be something which is out of our field and we 'll have to make sure that the arguments for and against the problems the problem . |