Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ And if they 're not in by tomorrow morning — and I mean tomorrow morning — you can assume that we 'll be buying our photocopying paper elsewhere ! ’ |
2 | I mean it 's not packed though , the shops were n't I mean tomorrow morning it 'll be m murder there it 'll be |
3 | Yeah find out , I mean exactly sort of trying to find out exactly what it is that they want to think about , suggest , you know |
4 | I mean probably women are more daring you know because they 've got less to lose in a way I suppose if you if you 're not a councillor you can be more er you know or if you 're not worried for your job or you know or if there is n't a definite structure I suppose in the lodge there 's the definite people that always say the same things you know what I mean and it 's it 's less easy to be spontaneous in that situation I would think you know . |
5 | Well I mean even Mr in his heyday has never quite |
6 | I mean perhaps Colin you 'd talk about for a moment . |
7 | I mean perhaps God has created the world and the fundamental laws of matter and evolution . |
8 | Erm and I mean perhaps Bedale Agricultural , but I mean that , that 's |
9 | I mean perhaps Saturday morning is n't the right time to phone but it was |
10 | Yes , I mean certainly storage , I mean is important . |
11 | I mean yesterday morning or every day . |
12 | I mean sometimes medicines are certainly prescribed and bought when they are n't needed . |
13 | see , is it , I mean sometimes Scott 's foot too wide for a both sides . |
14 | I mean sometimes people go to great lengths and trouble |
15 | I mean frankly David , if you look at the number of games we 've had so far this season , it would be totally impractical for both teams to have played on the same pitch . |
16 | you know I just keep thinking the stuff 's on the way round and there ought to be some way of doing it , but I , you know , I mean maybe Brian 's idea of the , the , the organizations in the ci ci but that does n't help me you know with a , with a |
17 | Brown , tan and olive are the original , classic corduroy colours , and when I say classic I mean specifically trousers , not jackets and certainly not suits . |
18 | I mean okay people ca n't help that but |
19 | Yeah , well I say er I mean obviously Pauline remembers it from some when do n't she ? |
20 | And secondly , I mean obviously parents are more worried if they feel that their child is not doing as well as somebody else 's child , and we 're back to this question of expectation again — where did they get the expectation that this other child is , as it were , some sort of norm that they ought to be living up to , and parents should talk to teachers and to other people who know their child and have got experience of their child as against other children to find out really whether their worries are truly grounded , or whether they are just groundless . |
21 | And secondly , I mean obviously parents are more worried if they feel that their child is not doing as well as somebody else 's child , and we 're back to this question of expectation again — where did they get the expectation that this other child is , as it were , some sort of norm that they ought to be living up to , and parents should talk to teachers and to other people who know their child and have got experience of their child as against other children to find out really whether their worries are truly grounded , or whether they are just groundless . |
22 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
23 | no because they 'll do what they , they 've always done there send their military in and they 'll they 'll say you are n't having this , you are n't doing that , I mean obviously Gorbachev 's I mean this stage , he 'd just send the tanks in by now , he plagued Yugoslavia crushed |
24 | Clare , erm would go back to the office , you you or Phyllis or Joyce I mean preferably Phyllis would sit down with her and say , Right , Clare , what have you learned ? |
25 | I do n't know I mean er maybe these are minute but whether you should explore them at that moment in time I mean only experience will tell . |
26 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
27 | Yeah , I mean now plays of Shakespeare and they 're wearing modern dress like those worn at Richard the Third or something and they 're wearing well either First or Second World War uniforms . |
28 | Yeah , I mean now plays of Shakespeare and they 're wearing modern dress like those worn at Richard the Third or something and they 're wearing well either First or Second World War uniforms . |
29 | okay now I 'm here and I am not only gon na be I mean now people |
30 | I mean basically areas that are supposed to be sustainably forested |