Example sentences of "[pers pn] was saying [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This particular intercessor is in fact a vaguely humanoid stalagmite , which I suppose bears out what I was saying about our common need to find resemblances between rocks and persons . |
| 3 | And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret . |
| 4 | Now this is what I was saying about tal sitting next to the world expert in . |
| 5 | And as I was saying about all this , you 're saying What did my Mother do to eke it out ? |
| 6 | But I was saying about Help the Aged , Check Your Tax . |
| 7 | ‘ Anyway , I was saying about the Glyrms : Maurice lost his wife when she was no more'n a girl ; Matthew 's missus walked out an' left him with three children . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So it 's going over the same ground but from the different er different emphasis because clearly my mistake last week was to try and cram in too much and to erm assume that what I was saying about modern sex theory was erm self-evident . |
| 10 | We talking about this and I was saying about coming from construction I says I 've says I 've to go up the cut like |
| 11 | And I , and Ma , and I was saying about Ma , you know , Ma , happened to say Madge , you know , and er er , you know we said that th , that I were n't going out . |
| 12 | She stopped me in town funny enough erm oh a good couple of weeks ago like , she says to me oh have you heard , cos I was saying about oh we 'd seen something in the shop , it was ever so nice , I said oh I 'm too fat for that she said ooh have you seen , she must be erm infat you know bloody infatuated with dieting |
| 13 | But like , he even said it , he said to me when I was drunk and I , and it pissed me off a little bit actually cos like , he goes to me you know like I I was saying about it and he goes erm well she was the one who wanted it all casual and everything , and I said oh yeah . |
| 14 | how Dave , I was saying about Dave and how he 's sort of taken , taken a completely different attitude to things . |
| 15 | that 's what I was saying about Geoff 's car really you know that chap taking it and righting off and we did n't got a penny for it , I ca , I ca n't see how that 's right ! |
| 16 | Yes I mean even though what I was saying about do n't worry about the , the , the headlines , you know , it it is there you are , and the last one , but you 're actually just giving someone a clue if they wanted to , or if they wanted to find out very briefly what it is about . |
| 17 | I think Mr misunderstood Chairman with respect that , that is n't what I was saying at all , what I was saying was had Mr not made his statement , this was the one that hopefully we would all of accepted . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I know what I was saying to myself , but myself was also my body ? |
| 20 | That 's what I was saying to Dennis , at any rate . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I have n't actually got a , a poem for this , I was saying to you that I would use this , I intend using this as a writing exercise , because the , the colour of her mouth and the colour of the piece of boot in the background , just stands out to me , it says , its about to me hidden desire of some sort , either the artist 's or hers or mine I do n't know |
| 24 | Erm and this is the reason why I brought this tape recorder , and I was saying to Bernard a moment ago , one of the most embarrassing things that can happen erm when talking to a group like this is when you pressed a button er whether it 's a , a tape recorder a video machine or whatever , you pressed a button full of confidence in all the latest technology and there 's an embarrassing silence . |
| 25 | I was saying to Pauline the other day , there 's some people you grow old with , willy-nilly , without noticing it — not that we are n't all wearing pretty well . ’ |
| 26 | Oh no dear , like I was saying to Basil , I do n't mind what people get up to . |
| 27 | . Oh no , as I was saying to Reed the other day , er Reed has joined our class by the way . |
| 28 | And as I was saying to Terry Heselton over coffee it could be Selby looking for its two hundred and fifty hectares . |
| 29 | so all that writing is actually surrounding your picture is n't it , you 've come up with your sensational picture and then you surround your sensational picture with your writing , I was saying to him with these little sub-headings like trapped , right , cost , holiday , okay which actually keep your reader hooked and make them want to read on . |
| 30 | Friendly enthusiastic , yeah , did n't use any slang erm the link was there , the attention to the client 's responses that was good , I was saying to erm th th that , that sales people tend to be a bit sort of more rabbit than Watership Down , you know that they 're |