Example sentences of "[vb base] i [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , certainly , yes , I mean I keep a record here — I 'm turning over my figures which shows my weekly intakes of U K holidays this year against last year . |
| 2 | No , I , I mean I looked a , like a bit of a plucked chicken every day , but |
| 3 | I mean I saw a came and I started with him and I liked it . |
| 4 | But even so , I mean I took a , like a two or three year old on it and I mean it is it 's a nightmare ! |
| 5 | I do n't mean I could do it myself , not straight away , I just mean I get a great sense of comradeship with these people . |
| 6 | I mean I get a few things in every week that , you know that you need , that you know er I go out on Monday and get everything else for the week like washing powder , and that sort of thing but u for food , I just get it every day . |
| 7 | The the laws for I do n't know I mean I get a bit fed up . |
| 8 | I mean I got a I banked two hundred pound extra last month . |
| 9 | I mean I got a sh , and we just go got the bus me and my brother . |
| 10 | no , I mean I like a man |
| 11 | but were Scottish women and I think to a Scottish woman two thousand pounds , I , I mean I know a lot of Scottish women |
| 12 | I mean I know a recipe quickly |
| 13 | is a fisher it 's the only one I know , I mean I know a few . |
| 14 | You I mean you , you criticize him but I mean I know a few people who , who he |
| 15 | Joe and I mean I come a long way and they said he told them I wan na pop in Friday morning before we go He was surprised He said well I were n't surprised , I said but er you know I want a name yeah well , he just said well I ca n't he ca n't fault me on anything . |
| 16 | It is quite a lot to read I mean I read a short story last week . |
| 17 | I mean I er I mean I had a lot of trouble |
| 18 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 19 | Oh yeah , I mean I had a horrible time with him for some time and it just , just |
| 20 | I mean I bought a lovely wide broom . |
| 21 | You see it 's it 's high whereas I mean I bought a high bed , but even my bed 's not as high as that . |
| 22 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 23 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 24 | And I mean I paid a hundred odd pounds for it |
| 25 | It 's just that I 've I mean I want a curtain there as well because otherwise it all looks a bit heavy but I do n't think I could put a blind down there because of the way |
| 26 | you know what he said the first time we went into sociology I mean I feel a bit like you must of felt then |
| 27 | Yes , I mean I have a very helpful husband , but he 's helping , he sees him himself as helping me rather than doing his share of it without having to ask what help I need . |
| 28 | Er , but having said that I mean I have a sweet five year old daughter and I would n't change her for anything , but given the second chance I would n't do it again . |
| 29 | ‘ You mean I have a brain , ’ Polly flashed him her sweetest smile . |
| 30 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |