Example sentences of "as i [verb] [pron] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only saw it open a few times but as far as I remember there were a couple of old ledgers and a stack of pocket files . ’ |
| 2 | So far as I knew there was no Indian name for Moose Jaw , but I had a brain-wave that might help . |
| 3 | Well I suppose you could erm I suspect it would be cheaper than but it would n't actually increase your pension per se at the end of the day because it 's as I said it 's a separate you know it 's a separate sort of erm income to your pension lump sum . |
| 4 | A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here . |
| 5 | So because it er as I said it was a relief to her i were a relief to us as children because then we were n't living in in terror of him coming home and you know causing the bother . |
| 6 | Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time . |
| 7 | I heard his name mentioned once … but as I said there was no coverage really . |
| 8 | The other thing I was interested in was the increase of ele of occupational therapists and I just wondered what the realistic expectation was of being able to recruit them because as far as I know they are a scarce resource er and not easy to find . |
| 9 | As far as I know they are the original studs , measuring 23mm across . |
| 10 | So far as I know there is no definition of what constitutes a Cabinet Committee and , as the practice has grown , I believe there may be among the 70-odd Committees in the book some with less title to be treated as Cabinet Committees than some of the 700-odd interdepartmental committees of which we have no detailed information at all . |
| 11 | As far as I know there is no introductory book that explains the principles of experimental phonetics , in the sense of how to design and carry out experiments and to interpret the results in terms that are meaningful to other phoneticians . |
| 12 | So as far as I know there are no plans . |
| 13 | Part of the chapter on motivation deals with obesity , and the discussion of theories of why we stuff ourselves is capped by a cartoon in which a chef tells a fat blimp ‘ As far as I know there 's no such thing as a diet cream puff . ’ |
| 14 | As I write there are a few small , unexcited newspaper reports about the progress of peace talks taking place , under the aegis of ex-President Jimmy Carter , in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 15 | Er as I say they were a U K company . |
| 16 | But , as I say she 's a modern outlook is a difference from the Queen , I think Queen Elizabeth |
| 17 | That 's alright though because it does n't , I 'm not worried tonight because you can lay in tomorrow cos as I say there 's no playschool or gymnastics is there ? |
| 18 | But as as I say there 's no reason why |
| 19 | I do n't think they could say anything , as I say there was no hosepipe ban then anyway so |
| 20 | Well , it was actually started by a few railway men , th right opposite Street there used to be hand laundry , and then there was a row of houses , from there , running up to the corner of Street where the club stands originally , but in the beginning it was just a row of small houses , and it started with a few railway men having a meet holding the meetings in this house , in these houses , and I 've got very dim memories of how it actually started but it was a real event when they were first , before they actually built the club it was run in the row of houses that ran from up Street as I say there was a little hand laundry corner of Street heading onto Street on the left hand side was the greengrocers , and that , they kept that greengrocers for as long as I can remember . |
| 21 | Well as I say it is a different company now . |
| 22 | Er right so as I say it 's a lighthearted approach and on christian name terms and with that in mind would you detach one of these and just stick your name on so that at least if you do n't know then at some stage during the course you stand a good chance of getting to know each other because again the essence of this course is informality and talking . |
| 23 | So it 's sort of a mobility thing and erm I think people will notice it on erm on that kind of level erm but as I say it 's a gradual process it 's cumulative and erm |
| 24 | But in those general objectives , we then set ourselves the top ten , top ten objectives and how we are going to actually action those objectives er to er move forward and if they were achieved , we thought if we achieved those ten objectives and that 's going to take time and as I say it 's a dynamic plan , it 's going to take two , three years to achieve and if we achieve those objectives then we will have achieved our own rule er our overall mission . |
| 25 | I do n't , I 've never known of any , no I have n't know of any at Willenhall , but erm as I say it 's a long way you know through |
| 26 | well it 's not a jacket , it 's a sort , as I say it 's a waistcoat . |
| 27 | Cos as I say it 's a mixture of a few you see . |
| 28 | Erm , but as I say it 's a good thing that you 're doing yourselves . |
| 29 | Yeah but as I say it 's the same as when you know we come over when we went up to the |
| 30 | But as , as I say it was a job at that time and and in fact I 'd never , this was the only factory I had n't fancied , working in was the B M K , and yet I like it the best . |