Example sentences of "as i [was/were] say [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And as I was saying about all this , you 're saying What did my Mother do to eke it out ?
2 Oh well as I er , as I was saying about th this aunt that stayed with me , er she once er saw a , well I do n't know whether she actually seen it or not , but she 'd seen the results of it , of a tinker 's divorce , and this man killed this horse and threw his wife on top of it and that was him divorced .
3 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 .
4 . Oh no , as I was saying to Reed the other day , er Reed has joined our class by the way .
5 And as I was saying to Terry Heselton over coffee it could be Selby looking for its two hundred and fifty hectares .
6 But as I was saying to George the other day
7 As I was saying to me mam like , all these John Major and that , they 're all going on about what they 're gon na do .
8 And that was I it was , as I was saying in early January .
9 And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing .
10 Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective .
11 Now one can make judgments about means and indeed as I was saying in my last lecture , the actual capability of the weapons you have can only really be found out when you use them and then you can see , very often , that they are in fact ineffective .
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