Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean either that or they 're right up to your backside , you know , and I mean |
| 2 | I do n't know whether that , I mean surely that 's what they mean , so |
| 3 | I mean surely that is a subject that 's been around for a hundred years ? |
| 4 | I mean however much you like doing something you would n't do it if you did it for nothing . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean exactly that . ’ |
| 6 | I mean alright that 's eighteen years ago . |
| 7 | What , what you 're saying is that I mean broadly this is , is quite an incentive based system , at least on the face of it |
| 8 | I mean not many people who 'd clashed with mrs thatcher did survive . |
| 9 | I mean not all of them are like it but |
| 10 | I mean that just sounds like familiar you know , I mean not that |
| 11 | But what it was , they were like it was like G A N do them er Man and Co And they had sort of like a job like Dave 's and a lot of them what they 've done is they 've bought in this area , I mean probably most areas they 've bought the repossessed they 've got about eight or nine houses they 're either renting them out or they 're leaving them empty . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean just that , sir . ’ |
| 13 | Would you like Lithuania to be part of some sort of erm , Soviet Federation , voluntarily I mean just some loose trading or defence partnership ? |
| 14 | which I mean even that may be too big for what we want . |
| 15 | But even so , I mean even that can be managed . |
| 16 | Oh aye certainly yes oh I can believe that , that 's quite true , but you get a lot of deal , I mean even that , when we were selling our house , there were people a lot of people |
| 17 | See he get 's a day and a half off , I mean it 's like we , I mean well this is why Dave said , he said do you fancy he said |
| 18 | I mean sadly that really was in a sense what making local authorities answerable was supposed to stamp out . |
| 19 | But erm certainly erm I , I think that was erm a , a very good response to this because erm obviously we 've got er a g a fair selection here , you 've got erm building society instant and top ten postal , that 's the postal account there , erm TESSA , P E P and unit trusts , and possibly index-linked certificates , and I 'll go back to those but I mean certainly that was a good er a good spread , and I think er you know you should be er thinking , well you know this lady 's going to have some safe growth in the in the future . |
| 20 | I mean usually that just does n't work because I mean the Guardian , they used to be more bold expanded in the Guardian except for and it was gross . |
| 21 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 22 | I mean always some book |
| 23 | Erm while the rest er live in the lap of luxury I mean maybe that 's a well I do n't know I do n't think it is an exaggeration really the way things are heading . |
| 24 | Allowing giving them time , I mean maybe this is what we should be , you know , hopefully we 'd be doing this anyway , but just using what we use in our family anyway to talk to , you know , as them questions . |
| 25 | I mean okay all of you as , as middle , middle peasants were reaching subsistence level how is that gon na help industrialization ? |
| 26 | indeed into the infra red if you were using the , I mean obviously that 's a small scale , probably would n't , erm , so the idea of actually putting some concert notes onto a tape or indeed doing it live , so anyway Simon is away on holiday , after the Festival but I 've arranged Cannon principal and for him and you |
| 27 | I mean obviously that 's stretching a point in one way , but just be careful what you 're leaving yourself open to , because there are men and women in journalism who are far more evil than I am . |
| 28 | I suppose , also , I have — well , one person in particular whose timekeeping is n't great — I mean obviously this sort of job it 's not important to be there on the dot of nine , but I think sometimes she slides . |
| 29 | Or , or other benefits that would actually kick in at a certain point , er , of death , I mean obviously this would actually help at erm , diagnosis , and you 're writing into this , sort of to cover all of the things that we 're talking about , and they get that , and then they continue to live , the rest of your plans are all then thrown out are n't they , because you 've got all those things that you 've put into place for death , sorted out in the years before . |
| 30 | I mean obviously this is nothing new , obviously there 's been this sort of thing for some time in the past , but I think what we 've got to ask ourselves is ‘ what sort of a society are we now reaping ? ’ |