Example sentences of "[vb base] i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean when I got , when I got here okay er when I was in the lower sixth and I like sort of got in and then like it was so weird being , I mean I 'd never been to a blokes ' school before I came here |
2 | I mean I did n't take a lot with me , I mean I took too much as it was and my arm carrying it across the Underground . |
3 | I mean I got pretty bad marks I find it difficult , find it very difficult . |
4 | But the , I mean I came home and they were under the hedge they were n't going through but there 's a big piece of netting has come down and it needs erm stitching up and then it needs sewing , not sewing erm |
5 | I mean I went straight in , tell me about your wife , I mean you could 've said well she 's not my wife |
6 | I mean I knew just as much as him . |
7 | I mean I thought personally that erm appendix one which was the initial submission was rather better erm in connection with the exception of three appendix one , it 's rather better than you know appendix two is sort of drafted in terms of , of , of , of . |
8 | I have took alopecia before I mean I thought maybe |
9 | I mean I had so I it did help . |
10 | I mean I mentioned earlier the fact that it might be that people perceive sexual harassment , where in fact the behaviour has been perfectly appropriate and it 's just that the person perceiving it is unused to it , but I think that 's the minority of cases , incidentally . |
11 | When it 's the Derby or any classic , they all chuck their money on him , I mean I did today , so my bookie will probably go off to Tenerife next week . |
12 | yeah I know , but its still very hard work , and I 'm ten years older than he is I , I just did as much as I could for him really , I mean I did more mixing than he did , I did nearly all the mixing |
13 | Sometime during the night , I was woken by my cold feet , a warm weight on my chest and the loudest purr I had ever heard . |
14 | ‘ You want me put away , so you can take everything ! ’ |
15 | ‘ You and that wife o ’ yourn … you want me put away . |
16 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
17 | I got Jake to lie , and say I went away on holiday earlier than I did . ’ |
18 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
19 | ‘ I hope I guessed right . ’ |
20 | I wanted to know why she thought I would be the least bit interested in all that drivel I had just had to sit through . |
21 | I said well you 're in the oh he said I 'll tell you what I want , a little black and white house I said it 's just there look I said nearly you 're nearly on top ! |
22 | Anyway look I 'd better go . |
23 | This was by far the best bigjob I had ever achieved . |
24 | She was only about seventeen , with the most beautiful little face I had ever seen . |
25 | Like a fool I came to surprise you , just like I did once before on Brynteg . |
26 | I remember I sang terribly , and he played rather badly , but in fact we ended up singing ‘ Do n't Cry For Me , Argentina ’ and it was fine . |
27 | remember I said earlier on in one of the black and white ones that we have n't , we 've got some water there which has n't got nice lines on , well this , this water certainly has . |
28 | I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media . |
29 | I ca n't I ca n't really think I 'll have to make a list out you know but er you know I got just think of anything that 's , you know as I say I 've got got some fo cat food will get some dry cat food yeah Oh I cou sta if I start thinking I 'll I 'll I 'll |
30 | I know I went quite a way down . |