Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she has fine qualities also — as I trust you will discover for yourself . |
| 2 | British Aluminium own the land , and as soon as I realised I would have to trespass with a car , my imagination started its fevered travail . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're good at that , ’ said Robert , but he did n't sound , as I thought he might have done , condemnatory . |
| 4 | ‘ If you had come to England as I thought you would have done , ’ she interrupted frostily . |
| 5 | I tried getting him slimmer once as I thought it might help him to jump even better , but it did n't suit him . |
| 6 | It was the last thing I needed to know as I prayed it would miss us . |
| 7 | As I said we can talk about half a dozen Adam Faiths . |
| 8 | But as I said they need have no fear . |
| 9 | As I said you could take that down Reggie 's then |
| 10 | And erm so that the campaign was working on two levels one to persuade women that they did n't have to take time off from working in factories , at certain times of the month and another to persuade women to use erm internal sanitary protection and as I said I will explain why later it comes into another section . |
| 11 | At the end of my little phone session , I 've one last in the bag , hi Mick , Peter , as I said I 'd give you a bell in January , do you think it 's a good time for us to get together now , yes , Oh great , O K , I 've got . |
| 12 | as I said it could have been worded better |
| 13 | She had to be for St Cecilia as I hoped she would share my love of music and would know the lullaby Mr Vinct had composed for her . |
| 14 | ‘ I know 't is my brother you really wish to see — just as I know I must call you my lady Anne ! ’ |
| 15 | Er in so much as I mean I must admit with these increases , I appreciate your need to get the extra profits and I 'm looking at the ones where I think we can push them to get a bit more . |
| 16 | Even as I write I can hear Imran Khan sighing all the way from Lahore . |
| 17 | As for me , I tell you as a friend , I feel impotent when confronted with such nature , for my Northern brains were oppressed by a nightmare in those peaceful spots as I felt one ought to do better things with the foliage . |
| 18 | Not because I thought I should have been picked there were at least 15 guys playing better than me but because I had n't performed as I felt I should have done . |
| 19 | As soon as last year 's Sale was over we received offers of books etc. , and , as I hope you would expect , we refused none . |
| 20 | Now if you , if he , as I hope you will do , have a look at the full versions , you can have a look at the shorter excerpt in a moment . |
| 21 | Well as I understand they must have had pumps down there or something to or something to keep them dry because er |
| 22 | Last year 's postal strike supplied a further motive , as I suspect it may have done for many other recent fax converts . |
| 23 | then as I say we 'll discuss it towards the end . |
| 24 | So it did n't necessarily mean that you get a squad of riveters that would stayed together all the time , erm for various reasons , as I say they may have been , unfortunately some of them might even die and therefore you had to make up the squad again |
| 25 | And in this sense , when we liberate South Africa we will also create , we hope a state in the world which will become foremost in fighting racism all over the world and at the lower level our community based organizations our non-governmental organizations that have across colour built up structures to move communities forward if our friends in Eastern Europe and elsewhere could see how that is done at grass roots level in the hell of racism as I say they would have a lot to learn . |
| 26 | And then as I say they can write off for a pack and they get examples which cost them . |
| 27 | Anyway then as I say they used to have these this back street effort and if you do it yourself you could do it with erm the enema syringe . |
| 28 | as I say she 'd have everything down , I think I , she definitely needs a big house , but not only that I mean she has to put everything up like |
| 29 | Right that 's , that 's , that 's lovely Ian anyway thanks very much for seeing me this evening erm well as I say I 'll go away and prepare some figures and then I 'll , I 'll see you what , what say Wednesday next week ? |
| 30 | As I say I 'll take a stall and I 'll be there all day if anyone can help me . |