Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's nice , well you 're not all that nice , I mean it does you good , I , if I get an upset tummy I always have some . |
| 2 | I mean it takes you all your time to find a good nice potato an'all |
| 3 | Yeah , I mean I saw something interesting last night |
| 4 | Yeah well b well what I 'm trying to say and I ca n't emphasise it too strongly is that I do n't want anybody going round like writing another stupid letter to somebody saying that erm you know the reason we 're inundated that it has n't been advertised properly cos I tell you what it 'll come back right in our faces cos it 's our bloody fault Well that 's right well we know that I mean I told them all I told them all quite clearly when I was up in Glasgow that they 'd be quiet for at least a month because p it 'll take time to filter through . |
| 5 | I mean I take it that nobody wants to recruit un until unless they 're certain they can keep , |
| 6 | its not how they came into the world of real names to stick with prat names like Beatrice and , I mean I know its old royal and that and I mean fancy going to school in that bloody Henry and William , I mean William 's not too bad |
| 7 | Yeah , so if it were in the dictionary , I mean I know you able to turn to the |
| 8 | and I , I showed her around some I , on the way back I said I 'll take you to Branston Park on the way back and I 'll show you where John 's working and I took her on to the , into the car park and I said look there he is up , huh , cutting the lawn , he was up cutting that , the big lawn she said one massive place I mean I took her all the way through Branston Park back to erm |
| 9 | I do n't think so I mean I left it all last night and everything seemed er amicable and er I have n't heard anything to the contrary today . |
| 10 | ‘ Somewhere , ’ Lee said , ‘ I do n't know where — in Africa , I think — there dwell two tribes , close to one another — I mean I think their assumed boundaries could well be adjacent — who hold diametrically opposed attitudes to the birth of twins . |
| 11 | I mean I think you all learnt from the one way system and the fiasco erm of that was actually there . |
| 12 | Is it just , well I was j er I mean I find it hard cos I suppose everybody to some extent , in the , the extent to which they live in their own house , |
| 13 | But I mean I bought my artificial my white one ten years ago now . |
| 14 | So I think I 've I mean you put me right , but I think I 'm talking about the words , rather than the essential message . |
| 15 | because er I mean you put anything hot down on that and e the tip is if you put anything down hot , you take a rag and a a saucer with some raw linseed oil and you heat the rag and you rub it gently and it brings sometimes you know the the the white marks . |
| 16 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 17 | you see she did n't give it till the spring to see what came up , I mean she had it all paved which was silly because they , there were a load of rose bushes and that |
| 18 | ‘ I expect you know what this is , do n't you ? ’ |
| 19 | I expect you know her Welsh corporal caught pneumonia . |
| 20 | ‘ I expect you to do your best , ’ she said . |
| 21 | ‘ But I showed one or two to Nick and he said , ‘ I hope you 're not wearing white ; I expect you to wear something colourful . ’ |
| 22 | I speak for everyone here when I say we wish you all the best , and hope that for you ( pause ) ‘ the best is yet to come ’ . |
| 23 | Oh I say I know my two and goodness |
| 24 | Well well I say I rang them first time . |
| 25 | And as I say you took your little wrapped up lunch invariably in newspaper , because they was no such thing as tissue paper int hose days you know , that was n't hardly available . |
| 26 | ‘ Then I suggest we reconvene our own meeting at the earliest possible opportunity . |
| 27 | I suggest we make ourselves comfortable and get down to business . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I suggest we make ourselves comfortable before we start talking . ’ |
| 29 | Now nobody 's done it , now we 've got two people in our area and one packing line , so I suggest we get them three together now and sort it out as to who done it and if they have n't done it and then wait while the three o'clock mane comes on , see if he 's done it . |
| 30 | ‘ I suggest we give you some paper and a pencil . |