Example sentences of "i [vb base] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
| 2 | I mean , okay , Peter give us it on Friday but would n't you have thought , I mean thirty quid |
| 3 | I mean twelve months is is the minimum period it could have been more . |
| 4 | I mean one dollar — ‘ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I mean one minute she says Sabrina 's er a bitch and the next minute she wants to sit next to her . |
| 8 | I mean one member of the committee has produced something which I rather think you might all like to have a look at it . |
| 9 | I mean one lady was found wandering in the street ! |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I mean one way we can accommodate that is to put pressure resistant valves in , maybe and drop the pressures a bit at night . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yes , yes , but I mean one person can very often do things |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | yeah I mean one point six millimetres something like |
| 19 | When nobody else is here but I mean one definition of that is that you 're asleep yeah . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I nearly forgot you , I mean one week he rang me and had it pinched out of his car |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | I mean two teachers come back and one of them says , Well I 've counted all those who are going to Whitby . |
| 27 | By which I mean two things . |
| 28 | Yeah I mean two things . |
| 29 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 30 | No , I mean two years ago I think we would have made wrong predictions about what 's happening now . |