Example sentences of "as i say " in BNC.
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| 1 | God you 'd 've laughed they were on about that as well at same time and he says to Steve what do you reckon to idea , he says it does n't sound bad , he says what do you reckon to idea as I says no . |
| 2 | but Sarah , as I says , I were sick last night |
| 3 | ‘ Daddy would have loved to have come as I said , but he just ca n't get any time off at all at the moment . |
| 4 | As I said earlier this year , there will not be enough of any one crop to give self-sufficiency , but the contribution this small plot has made to the good budget has ten times repaid the outlay on seeds and materials . |
| 5 | Being a combination , this is more likely to score than a single face punch which , as I said earlier , is often simply overlooked by the referee . |
| 6 | That is the basic difference between the hook and the sweep though , as I said , the two do blur into one . |
| 7 | As I said , it is not only the modern , computational form of representational theory which is , from the point of view of constructivism , mistaken . |
| 8 | As I said , housing is perhaps the extreme instance of irrationality among all the social services ; each has its own peculiar form of institutionalisation . |
| 9 | But it was , as I said , a poor story and I wo n't trouble you with it . |
| 10 | As I said to you yesterday , I have no idea what we shall do without you when you finally decide to depart . |
| 11 | ‘ As I said after the accidents at Clapham and Purley , my job as I see it is to make sure that we implement all the recommendations . ’ |
| 12 | Yet , as I said , you are not extravagant , I am . |
| 13 | As I said , what I did was dictated by necessity . |
| 14 | And anyway as I said , I 'm not Irish . ’ |
| 15 | It must be emphasized , however , that this particular elaboration of the nature-culture split is , of course , also itself a complex social construct and one which as I said serves patriarchal needs in various ways . |
| 16 | I always trust her opinion — apart from when she says I look cute , as I said ! |
| 17 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 18 | As I said earlier , name identification campaigns are routine in the United States but not so common in Europe , although there have been cases where a candidate has been so successfully promoted that he has won , despite his local party 's unpopularity at the time . |
| 19 | As I said earlier , at first sight it looks like a grey mush . |
| 20 | It is like having an auntie in a way , but in other ways she is a mum because whenever it 's anything special , she always sends up something ... but it 's as I said before , like an auntie . |
| 21 | As I said , everyone has to go there and a list of Swifts as long as my arm have been to it and now it 's your turn . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ As I said , boats are too dangerous , ’ replied Tock . |
| 23 | ‘ I came over as I said I would , ’ Susan smiled at Maggie . |
| 24 | ‘ As I said , it 's not that far out my way . ’ |
| 25 | I can assure you , I hold no brief for these wretched people , but as I said , I have had some experience — ’ |
| 26 | As I said , I 've had some experience . |
| 27 | As I said , premature , er , excitement about new scientific facts can damage progress . ’ |
| 28 | Now , as I said , my own investigation of DNA strands revealed what I believe to be specific intelligence and personality factors in Briant Bodies Gamma and Delta . |
| 29 | As I said , something necessary , something which must be so . |
| 30 | Boy as I said lived during the days on sugar , yoghurts , instant coffee and toast ; then every evening the man would cook up a big casserole , one big casserole filled with fish and lots of potatoes , tinned sweetcorn , something like that , and they would eat that together in the kitchen every night at seven o'clock , before the man went off to work — he worked nights you see . |