Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Thus when I favour pay for ‘ childcare ’ I mean the day-to-day domestic care of people who need it ( obviously I would include adults too infirm to care for themselves ) . |
2 | we 're not a society yet , so I mean thinking about that , we have tried to become a society before . |
3 | So do you know when you do you know when you erm I mean lived in the flats in the flats for fifteen years , have you managed to make many friends ? |
4 | I mean to compare with an elephant dropping , it 's small . |
5 | I mean hearing from God is much more important than scotsport , is n't it ? |
6 | I mean to live in England and be a Master of Hounds , not a rotten little king of a rotten little country . |
7 | We 've all got that though Lyn , I mean come off it . |
8 | Full of needles I mean come off it . |
9 | I mean come on it 's the same ball game . |
10 | Yeah I know it 's easier no you must feel really gutted , I mean I would I know , because as you said , you going out for ten months yeah exactly , yeah , exactly I mean come on you really liked him fancied him loved him oh wow , I said love , love love , I do n't know love hey man yeah yeah it 's probably , you know like when you dumped him for Danny it 's just probably like that yeah exactly exactly , so do n't worry oh come on he ca n't give up ten months for nothing I know it has to end someday , but it does n't I mean it 's like everyone thinks like that , it really annoys me , everybody , right who 's about our age yeah , they just go out with someone knowing that one day it 's gon na end , they 're just waiting for the day , and that you know , you should go out with someone with the intentions of being with them forever I know that sounds pathetic , but it 's true , yeah I know , yeah exactly yeah , yeah I know , why do you think I said it ? |
11 | I mean looking at a book and see the distance between , in there they give you the distance between Leeds , Ipswich , Leicester and Scotland and then you come to kilometres and |
12 | unless we can divert money from other sources , but that 's erm , well I mean that 's the reality behind fifteen years of fairly steady growth , and I mean looking at at plateauing out , I think . |
13 | And if we have n't got a full slate well I mean looking at that list we 're doing quite well . |
14 | Erm I mean looking at the , er the only solution , I feel erm another poor factor of this committee is probably er erm unnecessary and if I look at appendix four which lists the possibles , if I can find , erm it is n't actually necessary to have rules all like this , er next years erm , next years priority will be dealt with next year . |
15 | I mean looking at the game you just could n't believe United would only get a point out of it erm when you went in at half time only one nil up , you so dominated the game I do n't think Charlton had a chance did they ? |
16 | There 's erm And I mean looking after the parish hall as well , why should we bother with that ? |
17 | I mean compared with other |
18 | The opera was great , but I would n't have paid for that , I mean compared to rock erm a rock concert performance and most of the rock concert was twenty quid a ticket |
19 | I I think that when we discuss Marxism erm we tend , I mean looked at the |
20 | later than that , it 's er I mean to go to the crematorium at quarter past eleven , we would n't be back here before twelve o'clock . |
21 | ‘ I mean to go to Italy one day , as my brother has done , ’ she told me , when I discovered her on a stone bench in the garden , reading a book . |
22 | And he was n't in today I mean came into work and I passed out in the . . |
23 | I mean went to this kind of thing , it was |
24 | Yeah but I , I think that 's the importance basically I mean reading through this it 's very easy to sort of in , in a way you know go , go to this point of view because it was written at the time , but I mean we , we still now that it was a very sort of say left wing point of view |
25 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
26 | I mean look , and even so I mean depending on where it 's gon na be |
27 | That 's what , I mean according to Tracey on |
28 | revolution has already happened , I mean according to this the , the landlord 's political power 's been smashed |
29 | much do you want on that if you see what I mean to describe about dreams that |
30 | I mean bearing in mind that all the resources were broken down presumably the were separate gangs we could n't really make |