Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] i [be] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said at the beginning I think one should be wary about using the word natural , because sometimes people use it you know to promote something you know like on advertising you know it 's natural , must be good for you , but at the same time there are certain things that are natural that are very bad for you like death and if I were to say you know death is natural , nobody would think I was advocating suicide of course not . |
| 2 | And if I 'm saying I really want to do less for the cracker bar now , because that was hard pushed . |
| 3 | Now , if if I were to say , let us now have that conversation using erm , |
| 4 | Yes , well Eyre there stands as a sort of a paradigmatic modern philosopher , and when I was saying earlier that it was just a logical construction to help you to talk about particular things , and I think Eyre would go along with that . |
| 5 | And when I was saying earlier that it was just a logical construction to help you to talk about particular things , and I think Ayer would go along with that . |
| 6 | And as I was saying about all this , you 're saying What did my Mother do to eke it out ? |
| 7 | ‘ I have a stud farm , and as I was saying I 'm usually too shattered to do more than crawl into bed at the end of the day . |
| 8 | So a department name , the admin department , a department code , one hundred , and as I was saying er , you wan na to get in the top left hand corner , any information that keeps you informed so I wan na get both the department code and the department name into that one cell . |
| 9 | And as I was saying to Terry Heselton over coffee it could be Selby looking for its two hundred and fifty hectares . |
| 10 | fucking , fucking crap and as I was saying that my voice broke and I walked off and I started crying |
| 11 | But if I was to say it , it 's different . |
| 12 | But as I was saying … ’ |
| 13 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 14 | but as I was saying erm , it was erm when you think I sort of tend to worry if I see like Neville you know |
| 15 | But as I was saying to George the other day |
| 16 | Because when I was saying in erm |
| 17 | As Lewis tells us in the preface to the published version of this book , his initial reaction was to wish for anonymity , ‘ since if I were to say what I really thought about pain , I should be forced to make statements of such apparent fortitude that they would become ridiculous if anyone knew who made them , . |