Example sentences of "i [vb base] one [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean one dollar — ‘ |
2 | I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with . |
3 | A second later — and I mean one second — the derailleur sheared and jammed in the rear wheel , leaving me pedalling air one moment and swimming in a pile of dead leaves the next . |
4 | I mean one minute she says Sabrina 's er a bitch and the next minute she wants to sit next to her . |
5 | I mean one member of the committee has produced something which I rather think you might all like to have a look at it . |
6 | I mean one lady was found wandering in the street ! |
7 | I mean , you know we , we can all be very er , er liberal minded and enlightened about every body else , but when it comes to ourselves with a , and there are some exceptions and , and , and you 've identified yourselves here amongst this hundred , but a lot of us if were absolutely honest we would like to change things I mean one way or another and we all do various things , I mean we certainly wash our hair and people say you do n't need to wash your hair , if you leave it long enough it 'll wash itself , I do n't know what else you do maybe you shave bits of this and wax bits of that and |
8 | Yes er that 's been the essence of what I 've wanted is er I 've , I 've had to have what I 've wanted by hook or by crook , and I do n't mean crook in a bad sense , I mean one way or another , you know what I mean and er I did job for the casters , same as they did jobs for me , you know and that 's how I 've gone through life , that is Michael . |
9 | Erm I mean one way to do it of course is to say that none of our water 's fit for drinking , and you all get bottled water then would n't you . |
10 | I mean one way we can accommodate that is to put pressure resistant valves in , maybe and drop the pressures a bit at night . |
11 | British Aerospace was brilliant , as long as I had , I had a good reason to go away they 'd give me , they said they 'd pay for , I mean one year I did six weeks away paid and then anot another year I did two months non pay and I still kept me job , that 's when I went up the for two months all I was just labour doing it then . |
12 | I mean one person in particular , who is very good and always does the work , but I feel is probably — ok , she babies people too much , she does everything for them , rather than allow them to do it themselves . |
13 | Yes , yes , but I mean one person can very often do things |
14 | I mean one Friday I come , I left here about ten to one I went in the house and I went to bed and I was starving and Gordon says oh I 'm hungry I , so I went out straight down the stairs , come back up with a bloody big tray cups of teas now when I , after drinking down here , pasties now what I 'd taken home what I did n't sell here , crisps , sandwiches and a after I 'd ate it I felt so guilty . |
15 | yeah I mean one point six millimetres something like |
16 | When nobody else is here but I mean one definition of that is that you 're asleep yeah . |
17 | I mean one thing that 's mentioned before is about tag questions , which is where you put on question to the end of your sentence , as in Oh do n't you agree or Is n't it or you know you know the sort of thing I mean . |
18 | Er now I mean One thing that a lot of the literature says is that this might indicate a power , and another thing that the literature says |
19 | And we had expected rather a slump after Christmas that has n't happened really so that er you know we 're just so busy I mean one thing to the next really . |
20 | We do n't name him but whoever is in a particular spot should be responsible for a certain area , which in in fundamentally it is done that in quite a number of instances but I mean one thing that springs to mind is that a lady shall clear the ladies toilets . |
21 | I nearly forgot you , I mean one week he rang me and had it pinched out of his car |
22 | I no longer craved sweet things , no longer felt the need to binge and have only cheated twice ( and I mean one chocolate — not the whole box as before ) . |
23 | So , yeah so what I have erm I do n't really need to stuff my face cos I eat one meal a day see |
24 | On my own ten-acre farm I grow one quarter of an acre of winter wheat and one quarter of winter rye ( mainly for bread ) , and half an acre of undersown spring dredge mixture ( oats , barley , rye , and peas ) for feeding ‘ on the straw ’ . |
25 | As I say one day it might be quiet , and the next day , something might happen . |
26 | If I say one morning while looking out of my window , The sky is blue , then I am using this sentence deictically . |
27 | I recollect one girl putting on dark glasses as a disguise in the hope that she would be luckier than Oliver Twist . |
28 | I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six |
29 | I want one mark for the pantomime and one mark for the character |
30 | They were too drunk and crude , I want one man , one master , who I can respect but who wo n't respect me , and who will tell me what to do . |