Example sentences of "as i tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | blinked at me blearily as I told him we had better ring the hospital . |
| 2 | I should explain that I never once thought that he should ‘ give way to me ’ — as Nonni said he should — because I was ill ; only because , as I told him , I had always thought of him as ‘ a reasonable human being with some pretensions to morality ’ . |
| 3 | Speaking as one of them , I can tell this person that I am a single mother , not from choice , but because my baby 's father scarpered as soon as I told him I was pregnant . |
| 4 | As I told her later , she only had herself to blame . |
| 5 | As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew . |
| 6 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |
| 7 | As I told my faithful readers last week , this particular old gent was transported by an extremely uncomfortable magic carpet ( B.A. steerage , Apex ticket , with all the delights of plastic food and stewardesses trained by the Obergrüppenführer at Heathrow ) to Chiantishire , that old-established suburb of Wimbledon , which ca n't have changed much since Britannia ruled the waves and wogs stopped at Calais . |
| 8 | It was a warm night and I saw the moon shining on the sea as I told my story . |
| 9 | As I told my hon. Friend the Member for Batley and Spen ( Mrs. Peacock ) , we do not need to raise taxes ; the Labour party does . |
| 10 | AS I TOLD YOUR MUM , PREGNANT WOMEN SHOULD N'T SWEAR AT GYPSIES |
| 11 | Kidnapping is a business , as I told your husband . |
| 12 | That gave me the chance to tell what Braden had done , sounding disgusted as I told it so Mendez would have no doubt what I thought about Braden 's trick . |
| 13 | Wexford waited for her to talk of love and instead heard her say with a strange sense of shock , ‘ I gave up my job , as I told you , and came back to London to live with him . |
| 14 | As I told you , I did n't particularly take in her plans for the weekend , you know how one does n't , one just asks to be civil and does n't listen properly to the answer . ’ |
| 15 | As I told you , you 'll be hearing from my lawyers today . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ As I told you before , I do n't know these people the way you do . |
| 17 | Your application for a further grant from our endowment funds comes to committee next month , as you know , and as I told you when you first mooted it , the chances are — well , chancy . ’ |
| 18 | Her father , as I told you , owns the place . ’ |
| 19 | But Firefly kept me busy all morning , as I told you . |
| 20 | As I told you , the present war rules us both . |
| 21 | ‘ As I told you , the PM will indicate what happened . ’ |
| 22 | As I told you , I have a jolly good tuck-in at the school lunch . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm a happily married man , but as I told you , I 've had to compromise . |
| 24 | ‘ As I told you last night , she made all the arrangements herself . ’ |
| 25 | As I told you , I hardly remember it . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ As I told you when we first spoke , ’ Emily said quietly , ‘ I can take your debts on my own books and I can raise enough money to start us off in quite good style . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm Neil Hamilton , as I told you , and Mrs Hamilton was my great-aunt . |
| 28 | ‘ As I told you when you came to dinner with Ed and me at his apartment in Helsinki , I 'm a trained psychologist — like Sandy . |
| 29 | My wife , as I told you , is no longer with us . |
| 30 | You shall see it will fall pat as I told you ’ ( V.i.185ff . ) . |