Example sentences of "mean [pers pn] [vb base] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 2 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 3 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 4 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 5 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 6 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 7 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 8 | I mean I have been drunk , I have been stoned , I have passed out and I have been ill . |
| 9 | ‘ You mean you 've been investigating them ? ’ |
| 10 | I think , I think the other thing is as well though is that when you , I mean you 've been sitting pensions cos I mean I had the P H I which I thought it was easier to actually describe erm but erm it 's easy for us to actually sit back and , and go back on everything that everyth er everybody else did wrong is n't it , so |
| 11 | ‘ You mean you 've been talking about — what was she called ? — Inez — the mother of Matthew 's children ? ’ |
| 12 | But I mean we 've been going over and over that proposal . |
| 13 | Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's |
| 14 | you know , I mean they were so good when they came here but I mean they 've been shut in for months now ! |
| 15 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |