Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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31 I mean I did go to Denman , but I was n't very well at the time and I did n't get round the house so I would like to go myself .
32 They did n't talk to me I mean I did talk to they because
33 I mean I did ask you about the outstanding bills and loans whereas if we 'd 've been doing the thing properly we 'd 've gone through that
34 she only had the bloody cheek to charge us last year for a turkey wrong , but I mean I did get that sorted out afterwards .
35 I mean I did have some of the boxes in there until I sort of , thought while I was sorting things out .
36 I do n't I do n't know that I 'd fancy doing , I mean I did like biology , but I do n't think I 'd specifically want to do the biology at the level that they 're doing it up there , cos it 's too much of a jump from what I 've ever done before
37 I mean I did read somewhere there were some studies done
38 it it sort of keeps a sort of continuity in it and I mean I do think when we get to the end of the probationary year you 've sort of really learnt all the areas .
39 I mean I do think there are limitations with er
40 yeah , well I was there the other day and erm the bell went and nobody sort of moved and I thought I think , I know , you know , so I got up and I washed me cup of tea like , you know , they looked at me as if you know oh there 's a keen , but I mean I do think it 's important to do that , because not only that it 's not fair for the
41 I , I , I mean I do think that w what we would have to do is , is if people started making inroads into two via this route , it might mean then we 'd get to the point where it was n't going to cost that much more to enable other scale one people
42 erm I think I mean I do think it 's a stunt and I think stunts are very often not very well thought out , and I think your your definition is actually wrong .
43 I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously .
44 Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making .
45 But I mean I do get used to being on my own and then like I mean I say he 's there like the , the other morni he went down his mother 's and he did n't come back till three o'clock so he 's not there constantly all the time .
46 The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it .
47 Er check locally for claims of environmentally or sustainable tropical hardwood it 's not really , I mean I do look when I go to all these D I Y places to see what they 've got .
48 I mean I do happen to belong to a group of poets and we set one another subjects regularly .
49 I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that .
50 They 're not bad really , they , no but I mean you do get a few damp ones now and again do n't you ?
51 I mean you do get more than forty pee to do a parcel .
52 Yes , well he s he did take it up with me as a , er , I mean you did take it up
53 We do n't have any erm Chris has never bothered us bring people back from school , I do n't think he knows them that well , well I mean he does know them , but they 're not really his type , you know ,
54 I mean he did persevere but I was always rushing around saying ‘ Oh I 've got this to do , I 've got that to do ’ .
55 Then he said , " In fairness to the Old Man , all the rest of it 's true ; I mean he did say you could come back to Drummonds later , for you to have fifty out of petty cash — which was where I was going to get it from to pay myself back "
56 I mean he did say they were stitches that come out er what
57 Yeah , I mean he did say , he did n't really oh , realise the heater was gone
58 Well , I think he should have a letter anyway , definitely thanking him cos I mean he did like
59 I mean she does bugger all at home .
60 I tried to make my excuse sound plausible , but I fear I did hurt him ; he had been pronounced unfit for military service and he was lonely and smarting at his exclusion from the experience of his peers .
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