Example sentences of "as [pron] says in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what any innocent hostess would say in those circumstances : Lady Macbeth knows exactly how things ought to look ( scheinheilig , as one says in German ) . |
| 2 | As it says in the Torah : ‘ More than the Jews have kept the Torah , the Torah has kept the Jews . ’ |
| 3 | As it says in the original rules : |
| 4 | C is the velocity of light , as it says in ‘ Space Time ’ , the way we measure the velocity of light , and therefore I am the bringer of light , the prince of light , Lucifer himself . ’ ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Well , as it says in the books , it could augur good . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ As it says in the Bible , ‘ God is no respecter of persons ’ , Romans 2–11 . |
| 7 | ‘ It means ‘ he ground himself into me ’ , as it says in the book I bought at the airport . ’ |
| 8 | As it says in the article You own house and live in Surrey your surviving spouse is not going to get a great deal of the house . |
| 9 | Mabel often quoted lines of poetry to make her point , and whether they came from Tennyson , Keats , Wordsworth or Rupert Brooke , she always prefaced them with ‘ As it says in the Bible . ’ |
| 10 | To have towering , snow-spattered mountains everywhere you look , to gaze down into valleys , dotted — as it says in the brochures — with carved wooden chalets with roofs like lyres — to have all this and chocolate , too , is almost obscene . |
| 11 | As it says in the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , " So our troubles , we think , are basically of our own making . |
| 12 | But , as , as , as it says in the report which we 've had this evening , a bit of flexibility , a bit of balance . |
| 13 | In Oxfordshire with regard to drug misuse , well , as it says in this report er the main drug of misuse is alcohol , and we also have quite a problem with minor tranquillizer dependents . |
| 14 | As he says in the Childhood , he had his full share of determined wilfulness to follow his bent . |
| 15 | Chris Mattison has probably done more than any other recent author to champion the snakey cause : as he says in the introduction to this excellent paperback , ’ … though I respect the ability of some species to cause a rapid and somewhat sensational death , outright fear of them is , to me , irrational . ’ |
| 16 | As he says in his autobiography , ‘ I had to take every race as it came and just try to win it because whatever happened to Niki — and the Ferrari was not relevant to me at that point . |
| 17 | As he says in ‘ The Osmonds ’ , ‘ I soaked it in , now it 's all dripping out ’ . |
| 18 | As he says in De republica ( 3.5 ) : " Scipio and his friends added to the native usage of our ancestors the teaching of Socrates coming from abroad . " |
| 19 | As he says in that section of Book 3 which is a later addition , " No man with any intelligence goes to war with his neighbours simply for the sake of crushing an adversary " ( 3.4.10 ) . |
| 20 | As he says in the following extract : |
| 21 | For , as he says in the introduction to his essay on the tales of Henry James , ‘ criticism seeks to interpret a particular work , while structuralism , for its part , is a scientific method implying an interest in impersonal laws and forms , of which existing objects are only the realizations , ( 1973 : 73 ) . |
| 22 | We can read this assimilation of characters either as an irony beyond the Miller 's ken , confirming the limits of his churl 's intellect , or as a droll piece of self-examination and reflection on the character 's part : the Miller might , as he says in his prologue , be a cuckold as John is . |