Example sentences of "as [pron] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are conditions there as primitive as everyone says ? ’ |
| 2 | and then there 's the as everyone says the commercialism coming up to Christmas it 's |
| 3 | New England in the Fall is quite as beautiful as everyone says but the weather is fickle — we arrived in a sunny 82°F and left in a foggy 36°F . |
| 4 | If you believe in public transport , as everyone says they do , this development is inescapable and very desirable . |
| 5 | But it was his heart , and as everyone said , you can never tell with hearts . |
| 6 | If the workhouse was as overcrowded as everyone said , then surely they 'd be only too pleased to get one inmate off their hands ? |
| 7 | It had taken her nearly ten years to do so , ‘ as everyone said that we have enough societies in Bedford already ’ . |
| 8 | Her younger daughter remembered them clustered round her chair as she talked and , as someone said , ‘ toyed with the frayed edges of a bun ’ . |
| 9 | As someone said at the time , ‘ I could believe him guilty of grievous bodily harm , but not grievous bodily charm . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But , ’ he said , his voice challenging his audience to rise and refute him , ‘ death , as someone said , is the great leveller . |
| 11 | As someone said , you ca n't be serious . |
| 12 | So many days of late , although dry , have been dull and overcast , but as someone said to me , you ca n't wait too long for a good thing , so here 's hoping . |
| 13 | We were puttering up river late in the afternoon and the sun was beginning to go down over these huge trees and a flight of big birds , herons or something , were taking off like pink seaplanes as someone said and the second assistant suddenly stood up and yelled out This is paradise , this is fucking paradise . |
| 14 | We got so close , but as someone said it 's better to have tried than not . ’ |
| 15 | P P G three , the revised P P G three when it came out clearly , in my opinion changes the emphasis from the draft P P G three from the draft P P G three , paragraphs thirty two and thirty three which I would emphasize should to be read together , clearly indicates that new settlements are as someone said this morning , sorry , earlier in the discussion today , an issue of last resort . |
| 16 | Mind you it 'll probably be fine and anyway as someone said it 'll be good to widen the group a bit more and launch some journalistic careers into the bargain ( -> ) . |
| 17 | As someone said … him and Strach had an uncanny knack of supporting each other when needed . |
| 18 | As someone said before in his starts for Leeds his goals per match are pretty impressive , and he plays his heart out , not something I can say for Dean . |
| 19 | I mean I may maybe decriminalization is part of that but I , as someone said why sho , why should n't people take er , drugs if they want to , they 're allowed to take other drugs ? |
| 20 | ‘ But as soon as someone says that four-letter word , it will be ‘ do you have to use that language ? ’ |
| 21 | So in fact there may be a quality of treatment actually between someone retiring at fifty or fifty-five in terms of the number of years paid into the pension fund , as someone say age seventy . |
| 22 | God you 'd 've laughed they were on about that as well at same time and he says to Steve what do you reckon to idea , he says it does n't sound bad , he says what do you reckon to idea as I says no . |
| 23 | but Sarah , as I says , I were sick last night |
| 24 | ‘ Daddy would have loved to have come as I said , but he just ca n't get any time off at all at the moment . |
| 25 | As I said earlier this year , there will not be enough of any one crop to give self-sufficiency , but the contribution this small plot has made to the good budget has ten times repaid the outlay on seeds and materials . |
| 26 | Being a combination , this is more likely to score than a single face punch which , as I said earlier , is often simply overlooked by the referee . |
| 27 | That is the basic difference between the hook and the sweep though , as I said , the two do blur into one . |
| 28 | As I said , it is not only the modern , computational form of representational theory which is , from the point of view of constructivism , mistaken . |
| 29 | As I said , housing is perhaps the extreme instance of irrationality among all the social services ; each has its own peculiar form of institutionalisation . |
| 30 | But it was , as I said , a poor story and I wo n't trouble you with it . |