Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pers pn] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other I sell them to make a living . ’ |
| 2 | I mean they got a lot better living what we got and and and they was alright but the the you know you 'd never call them bloated capitalists because they were n't bloated really . |
| 3 | But I mean they get a lot about |
| 4 | But er yes , no it is th I mean they had a lot of business from banks and areas like that |
| 5 | but I mean they had a lot as well at one time did n't they ? |
| 6 | Er I mean they had a family in er Russia did n't they ? |
| 7 | I mean they use a pair of radials |
| 8 | Because at the moment , er I mean they spend a lot of money on various footpaths that I know of which are a tremendous er price so let's be a bit cautious you know , because er |
| 9 | Oh , goodness yeah but now they , even today , I mean they have a strike and that 's settled just like that . |
| 10 | Well we are this end , but I mean they have a bit of trouble down down there by the club |
| 11 | I mean they have a go at all of them . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean they have a job . |
| 13 | Yes I mean we had a case recently I think the son was twenty four all these perpetual students . |
| 14 | I mean we had a lot of them are run anyway on credit , there 's no real capital lying behind those businesses . |
| 15 | You know I mean we had a woman in pub , |
| 16 | And eh , he seemed very knowledgeable , I mean we got a job to find him , he has n't actually got a shop , he 's just got a premises . |
| 17 | a long period of time , I mean we give a guarantee of two years on material . |
| 18 | You know , I mean we revert a lot of trade here to next day , so the quality of service has got to be good or we lose them . |
| 19 | I mean we provide a group environment for people who 've had psychiatric illnesses of various kinds in the past , and with a view to giving them something useful to do , something constructive and I hope , pleasurable , with a positive end product as well , which we then proceed to sell . |
| 20 | erm the I mean we have a pentadactyl limb , whether we climb or run or fly or swim , you can recognise an obvious deep anatomical resemblance between the limbs of organisms behaving as differently as that , and therefore that if we really want to understand evolution we have to understand these erm , I do n't know whether one wants to call them plans or archetypes , or structures , call them what you will . |
| 21 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 22 | I mean we gave a certificate for St Aldate 's Courtyard for instance , because we felt it looked really very nice and so much better than the office block across the road . |
| 23 | And I 'm disappointed that the District Council officers nei ei any of the three come , I understand one 's ill , but I mean it seems a bit disappointing cos I did actually |
| 24 | I mean it seems a bit ironic in that how that what the Communist Party had been striving to eliminate for the past twenty years , they 're now going back to recreating differences in society , but the most fundamental change is that how feudalism has gone . |
| 25 | Oh , certainly , yes , I mean I keep a record here — I 'm turning over my figures which shows my weekly intakes of U K holidays this year against last year . |
| 26 | but were Scottish women and I think to a Scottish woman two thousand pounds , I , I mean I know a lot of Scottish women |
| 27 | I mean I know a recipe quickly |
| 28 | no , I mean I like a man |
| 29 | The the laws for I do n't know I mean I get a bit fed up . |
| 30 | I mean I er I mean I had a lot of trouble |