Example sentences of "i speak as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I speak as a father . |
| 2 | I speak as if to a child , and add , ‘ On Friday . ’ |
| 3 | I was very impressed with the film , it was brilliantly made and riveting — and I speak as one who hated director Ridley Scott 's Thelma And Louise . |
| 4 | It is mind-blowing , and I speak as an expert . |
| 5 | There 's nothing more soul- destroying ( and I speak as a seasoned dieter here ! ) than those inflexible diet regimes : no meals out , no dinner parties , no treats . |
| 6 | I speak as your friend . |
| 7 | But then I do n't hold with the precept de mortuis nil nisi bonum ( I speak as a doctor , after all ) ; and it 's hard to underestimate the irritation when a critic points out something like that to you . |
| 8 | ‘ Sometimes , old boy — and I speak as one who has changed a good many nappies in his time and is not a total stranger to either the washing-up bowl or the kitchen stove — sometimes I wish we were still living in the good old bad old days . ’ |
| 9 | I speak as a forty-three-year-old . |
| 10 | I speak as Father of the House . |
| 11 | One welcomes the provision that housing associations can make , and I speak as a member of the management committee of a housing association . |
| 12 | I speak as a representative who came into the House as a result of the murder just 10 years ago of the then Member for Belfast , South . |
| 13 | I speak as an hon. Member who has served time on four such Bills during the four years that I have been in the House — the City of London ( Various Powers ) Bill , the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill , and the London Underground Bills Nos. 1 and 2 . |
| 14 | I speak as someone who until last May served as a councillor in a metropolitan district . |
| 15 | Thank you very much , Sir Leonard for that , in th in the beginning of your address you posed the question , what does a company like I B M have to do with a community and then proceeded to answer your question , I think in a most , er , comprehensive way , and I I speak as someone who lives in a county , Hampshire , where I B M has a strong er , base , and I know from personal experience as a volunteer in that county , how much we value the contacts that we have with I B M and the way in which we work together with them in the way that you have described . |
| 16 | At any rate some of these points I speak as one who was as your Lordships know is on the whole a fairly loyal supporter of the Government . |