Example sentences of "i was saying " in BNC.
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| 1 | This game was a little disheartening , not so much because of the disciplinary problem , but because it showed all too clearly that few if any of them were actually listening to what I was saying . |
| 2 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 3 | ‘ I was saying — any more of that fucking horrible tea ? ’ |
| 4 | I could hardly believe what I was saying . |
| 5 | At 18 I was saying ‘ I 'm a man and ready to tackle this ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Pah — there are n't any male ones either — not since Sibelius and Cézanne — however — as I was saying ( among ordinary people ) physical strength used to matter , but now most of the hard work is done by machines , so it does n't wash any more . |
| 7 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 8 | This goes back to what I was saying about the ‘ fellowship ’ of conferences and similar events and how important it is for people to enjoy themselves and make contacts . |
| 9 | ‘ And I was saying , ’ Rozanov growled , ‘ I expected it will be truly international . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was saying , if the bananas have ran out , I hope they … aw , forget it Luigi . |
| 11 | Maggie paused , then went on , ‘ As I was saying , my own mother used to make steak-and-kidney pudding . |
| 12 | Well , like I was saying I was over in Israel doing research on the migration of birds of prey . |
| 13 | Anyway , as I was saying , it attaches itself to a tree . |
| 14 | I was obliged , as I was saying , to spend some uncomfortable minutes standing in the drawing room yesterday afternoon while Mr Farraday went about his bantering . |
| 15 | I know what I was saying to myself , but myself was also my body ? |
| 16 | There is , however , a good deal to what I was saying . |
| 17 | You may have the house and the car and the job and the security , I was saying , but I 've lived . |
| 18 | That 's what I was saying to Dennis , at any rate . |
| 19 | I kept talking to his mother and the girl at the cash-register , but I was so distracted that I did n't know what I was saying . |
| 20 | The Vester demonstrates what I was saying earlier about not needing an expensive bass , and the Ampeg also provides enough power for most gigs … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , as I was saying , Will , you could be … . ’ |
| 22 | As he told the NSS last year , ‘ All the great reformers and responsible people did n't dare pop their heads above the parapet when I was saying , ‘ Let's junk some of the rubbish , let's talk , let's get some real debate back . ' |
| 23 | And when the second person starts to speak , the first person goes through the same performance until there is a chance to interrupt and say : ‘ To get back to what I was saying … ’ or ‘ This only goes to prove my point … ’ |
| 24 | I scarcely knew what I was saying or doing . |
| 25 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |
| 26 | But I considered myself to be unattractive , and in becoming so thin as to render myself totally undesirable sexually , I was saying , ‘ I may be unattractive , but this is because I choose to be this way . ’ |
| 27 | In becoming anorexic , I was saying to those who were in effect my social superiors , ‘ I can contribute nothing to the community ; look how little I have/am . ’ |
| 28 | Anne : As I was saying , I need some time off next week … |
| 29 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , I was saying … ’ |