Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean one dollar — ‘ |
| 2 | I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with . |
| 3 | A second later — and I mean one second — the derailleur sheared and jammed in the rear wheel , leaving me pedalling air one moment and swimming in a pile of dead leaves the next . |
| 4 | I mean one minute she says Sabrina 's er a bitch and the next minute she wants to sit next to her . |
| 5 | I mean one member of the committee has produced something which I rather think you might all like to have a look at it . |
| 6 | I mean one lady was found wandering in the street ! |
| 7 | I mean , you know we , we can all be very er , er liberal minded and enlightened about every body else , but when it comes to ourselves with a , and there are some exceptions and , and , and you 've identified yourselves here amongst this hundred , but a lot of us if were absolutely honest we would like to change things I mean one way or another and we all do various things , I mean we certainly wash our hair and people say you do n't need to wash your hair , if you leave it long enough it 'll wash itself , I do n't know what else you do maybe you shave bits of this and wax bits of that and |
| 8 | Yes er that 's been the essence of what I 've wanted is er I 've , I 've had to have what I 've wanted by hook or by crook , and I do n't mean crook in a bad sense , I mean one way or another , you know what I mean and er I did job for the casters , same as they did jobs for me , you know and that 's how I 've gone through life , that is Michael . |
| 9 | Erm I mean one way to do it of course is to say that none of our water 's fit for drinking , and you all get bottled water then would n't you . |
| 10 | I mean one way we can accommodate that is to put pressure resistant valves in , maybe and drop the pressures a bit at night . |
| 11 | British Aerospace was brilliant , as long as I had , I had a good reason to go away they 'd give me , they said they 'd pay for , I mean one year I did six weeks away paid and then anot another year I did two months non pay and I still kept me job , that 's when I went up the for two months all I was just labour doing it then . |
| 12 | I mean one person in particular , who is very good and always does the work , but I feel is probably — ok , she babies people too much , she does everything for them , rather than allow them to do it themselves . |
| 13 | Yes , yes , but I mean one person can very often do things |
| 14 | yeah I mean one point six millimetres something like |
| 15 | When nobody else is here but I mean one definition of that is that you 're asleep yeah . |
| 16 | I mean one thing that 's mentioned before is about tag questions , which is where you put on question to the end of your sentence , as in Oh do n't you agree or Is n't it or you know you know the sort of thing I mean . |
| 17 | Er now I mean One thing that a lot of the literature says is that this might indicate a power , and another thing that the literature says |
| 18 | And we had expected rather a slump after Christmas that has n't happened really so that er you know we 're just so busy I mean one thing to the next really . |
| 19 | We do n't name him but whoever is in a particular spot should be responsible for a certain area , which in in fundamentally it is done that in quite a number of instances but I mean one thing that springs to mind is that a lady shall clear the ladies toilets . |
| 20 | I nearly forgot you , I mean one week he rang me and had it pinched out of his car |
| 21 | I no longer craved sweet things , no longer felt the need to binge and have only cheated twice ( and I mean one chocolate — not the whole box as before ) . |
| 22 | From where I 'm sitting ( in a Paris café as it happens , pal , limbering up for the days 500cl — I mean 500 word slog ) , a rest in that sense would take the form of a couple of shifts in a Bolivian tin mine — and Club Med do n't fly there . |
| 23 | Oh no that did n't , and cos they got a good job , I mean five pound seven and six a week a skipper 's earnings . |
| 24 | By fine , I mean 30s cotton , fine as sewing cotton and indeed you can use sewing cotton if you wish . |
| 25 | They had three on on door I mean three security men but it 's not worth it mind . |
| 26 | So , yeah so what I have erm I do n't really need to stuff my face cos I eat one meal a day see |
| 27 | On my own ten-acre farm I grow one quarter of an acre of winter wheat and one quarter of winter rye ( mainly for bread ) , and half an acre of undersown spring dredge mixture ( oats , barley , rye , and peas ) for feeding ‘ on the straw ’ . |
| 28 | As I say one day it might be quiet , and the next day , something might happen . |
| 29 | If I say one morning while looking out of my window , The sky is blue , then I am using this sentence deictically . |
| 30 | There is a German lady called Louise most anxious to see you again , ’ — here I suggest two exclamation marks — ‘ and I have some Jewish friends who are also desirous to meet you . |