Example sentences of "[vb base] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean I keep on tell |
2 | I mean I keep on saying if I found I could n't do the maths I 'd ditched |
3 | out and never said ta ta to anyone , I mean I ran over and I said to mum he 's got a funny on , what do you think ? |
4 | I mean I looked out and thought well |
5 | Erm I mean I go up there |
6 | I mean I go off cleaning in a pair of tracksuit bottoms and her er |
7 | I mean I go back |
8 | Yeah if they if their churning out the stock that tu tend to churn out , I mean I go along for an enquiry for a few and find they 've got thousands in stock . |
9 | I mean I go out |
10 | I mean I shout up to the bathroom , I mean |
11 | A man walked in and he says hello to John and that and how 's it going and that , he came into see you and I sat , I mean I came in |
12 | No , I mean I went in , I was talking to this , this bloke |
13 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
14 | I mean I went out because I mean |
15 | I mean I know in about four months ' time I 've got a meeting in my diary with Alan . |
16 | because you think , I mean I come up here and I slag someone off to you or yeah , and then I 'll go downstairs and I 'll sit with them at lunch and have a perfectly normal conversation with them |
17 | Well we used to take it in our stride , I mean I grew up with an old Victorian house with potent fires and you had keep the fires going either wise in the winter it was bitterly cold , it was nice and cool in the summer coming out of the heat . |
18 | I mean and , and I mean I turned up about half an hour before the end and , and Iris really was looking a , I , I can confirm a picture of dejection |
19 | I mean I pity about today . |
20 | Then one shift I went in and she said , ‘ Hello Pat . ’ |
21 | There 's … there 's the print frock I let out that fits you . |
22 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
23 | In a way , it 's ended up being a good test to measure potentially good relationships against bad ones , because say I went out with someone and at a party they said , ‘ Sit on me lap , darling ’ , and then they said , ‘ Oh God , you 've only got one leg ’ — well , I 'd know they would n't be worth going out with ! |
24 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
25 | Someone gives you with something to integrate and they say I started off I differentiated something |
26 | And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school . |
27 | Some say I play down the ‘ grinding toil ’ that is an unavoidable part of it all , so I will not deny that this year it was done by a very small corps of loyal people , several from without the congregation . |
28 | On the one occasion this was said to me , my reply was : ‘ OK , imagine I go out to dinner and do n't get back . |
29 | If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better . |
30 | Hope I wake up ! |