Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that for the fathers the Devil is the Enemy , and on the whole most of them stress this even more than did St Paul himself . |
| 2 | Yes , there were things she would never experience in life , special things which a man and woman in love might enjoy ; she would never carry Tyler 's child again , nor would the two of them grow old together , content in each other 's love . |
| 3 | I dispute that really ; I dispute that enough . |
| 4 | I dispute that really ; I dispute that enough . |
| 5 | I regret that now . ’ |
| 6 | I mean that just like . |
| 7 | I mean that quite literally . |
| 8 | When I say that I saw Karen at the funeral , I mean that quite literally . |
| 9 | ‘ Your penis would have broken right off inside her and I mean that quite literally . |
| 10 | And I mean all together . |
| 11 | I mean close together . |
| 12 | Yeah , well , I mean nine o'clock and you , you used to be back sort of twenty past |
| 13 | I mean I could say well like Elsie I could say ooh well I mean she comes , she leaves him I mean nine o'clock in the morning |
| 14 | I mean ten o'clock yeah that 's normal for you . |
| 15 | I tell you something else as well , if you want me to take you out any time you want me to take you out and , and I mean this honestly if you do n't want sex you wo n't have to have it |
| 16 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |
| 17 | I only wish and I mean this very sincerely I only wish we could spend as much time and as often as is spent discussing fox hunting on the county 's homeless , on abused children , on the handicapped , on the increasing crime and on unemployment and I only wish that the media and the public and even members of this council would take as much notice of that as they do about this debate on fox hunting . |
| 18 | It may very well be , and I mean this seriously , that the adman invented the teenager . |
| 19 | mhm Well I mean this obviously is a decision is it not for the military commanders ? |
| 20 | Yeah I mean some very nice girls do n't take that wrong I mean , they n they do n't hit you on the head and start fighting every time you talk to them . |
| 21 | It 's a very nice road , I mean some very nice houses . |
| 22 | If there is anyone cheating , I mean those still wired for sound , please remove your headphones and listen . |
| 23 | I mean anyone who says they ca n't manage on what they get , er they ca n't feed the kids on what they get , probably go in the pubs five or si six nights a week , and smoke too much and but erm I mean these never go without a meal or anything like that . |
| 24 | I mean fair enough you ca n't expect them to be quiet . |
| 25 | So I says , aye I mean fair enough . |
| 26 | I make that absolutely clear . |
| 27 | I grow old disgracefully ! ’ |
| 28 | I realise that now . |
| 29 | ‘ I realise that now . |
| 30 | I realise that now . |