Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 2 | Now , I suppose I regret holding out on him . |
| 3 | They think it was the stress , I mean moving down to Cornwall ! |
| 4 | you see if you can get a certain amount of money yes I mean take out two thousand or something |
| 5 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
| 6 | Oh yes , so I mean come on let's , let's give them another wee push , gently |
| 7 | and she seems really full of herself and I bet you , I mean come on I 'm sure if there , if there was a master like a sports bloke like that you might be s it 's like there must be some |
| 8 | Exams , yeah , so you do n't have any lessons you just come back here , you can revise , I mean come on how much have we got to learn anyway in a term ? |
| 9 | erm because Mr was abroad and the girl said well I mean come in on Monday , when he 'll be back |
| 10 | I did n't know what to say , and they said , well where were you , well er , I said we were all standing on the balcony and we , we did n't hear you , erm , it was ab I mean looking back now , it 's funny , but it was ludicrous at the time . |
| 11 | When you 're , until you 're in danger of breaking down , I mean breaking down would be when you 'd approach the hoop like that and you realize you ca n't run it . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean serving up a one-legged chicken in front of all those guests . |
| 13 | ‘ I may as well begin as I mean to go on , ma'am . |
| 14 | It sounded good Mick , I mean it 's your first year and I was n't gon na come up here , but I thought I might as well start as I mean to go on . |
| 15 | An' I mean to go through with it , we both mean to go through with it . |
| 16 | I mean turn out in the er in , in in er er European elections was er in nineteen eighty four it was thirty two percent and in nineteen er eighty nine , thirty seven percent . |
| 17 | Um I know er at the in the clinic and all that kind of thing , I mean goes on about these people quite a bit . |
| 18 | I mean goes down , he 's goes Ahhh ! |
| 19 | I mean to lay down my life that men like you can live in freedom to fight for what is right in the world . ’ |
| 20 | Well that 's what I that 's what I mean go down down Shallard 's Road here down |
| 21 | Oh about erm three feet deep I reckon they were , I mean to load up er eight hundred tonnes , which we average these hoppers out at , er er we were getting a good soil we 'd load up eight hundred tonne in an hour and a half to two hours , between hour and a half to two hours we 'd be loaded , that 's all depend on what you was dredging , you might be interested in and , and go quicker , if you were dredging greenfly that 's be alright you 'd , if you dredged peat well that hopper would be full but it would n't be half lo it 'd be half loaded you see , be half way down to the plimsoll mark . |
| 22 | ‘ I mean stand up slowly and make yer way to the back shop and we can all have a wee chat . |
| 23 | Mm well maybe , I mean to come up with a , a clear example . |
| 24 | Erm in fact telephones , I mean talking back to nineteen forties and fifties , very few people had telephones , and it was n't uncommon in , in those days on fire engines , where , I know at Salisbury we did this , we took a bike and put it on the back of a fire engine , and if you were the youngest you were told , send the stock message back , or the informative message back , and find the telephone , and you pedalled and find the telephone , and , and you 'd get told off when you came back , why you were n't quicker about taking it . |
| 25 | I mean going round selling stuff and that sort of thing , they 're asking them , they 're doing a man 's job |
| 26 | Erm which is points up a weakness there on the public relations side there I mean going back to their post share repurchase they said that they 'd got no new products in the pipeline , no research and development really sort of throwing anything up in the near future . |
| 27 | Oh they do , yes they do like I mean going back forty seven round there well perhaps you know , forty six were n't it ? |
| 28 | But when it rained , going down I mean going down it rained so much I thought we 'd never , never even going to get there . |
| 29 | I mean putting on . |
| 30 | ‘ I mean to find out , even if it entails keeping you here indefinitely , so you might as well start talking and get it over with . |