Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I change 15% of the water weekly and syphon the substrate once a fortnight . |
| 2 | I sell people what they want . ’ |
| 3 | When I say incomers I mean folk |
| 4 | Erm , I mean headquarters as from adminis , the administrative erm part of it I do n't know whether you saw the Barnardos This is Your Life lady |
| 5 | Its amazing how you , you came down here , but I mean duck never managed it did he ? |
| 6 | Yeah but I mean fish we we used to consider fish |
| 7 | I mean people who are sleeping in parks and doorways , in derelict buildings and under railway arches . |
| 8 | I mean people who are living in the old common lodging houses and in government resettlement units , people living in squats and dingy bed-and-breakfast hotels , and families living cooped up with their relatives because there 's nowhere else for them to go . |
| 9 | I mean people like you , whoever you are , wherever you 're from and whatever you do . |
| 10 | I mean people saw it and said , ‘ That 's not Shirley Bassey . ’ |
| 11 | By real guitarists I mean people like Hubert Sumlin , Cesar Rosas , Dave Hidalgo , Corrado Rustici , James Calvin Wilsey , and the host of mind-blowing talent there is in London alone . |
| 12 | I mean people are a bit narrow in this respect you know they do n't like people to talk about it too openly — but I do because I think it 's important but the trouble is that — erm — that 's not really systematic in the sense that I do it but how many other people do it you see . |
| 13 | The other three are subject to severe cultural condemnation and can be said to represent the non-Chewong person , by which I mean people outside the wider social universe of humans and superhumans , in effect Malays and Chinese . |
| 14 | " Goodness me , do n't start taking that as a compliment , she cares about everyone 's feelings , she 's an archetypal victim , she 's an absolute fool about other people 's feelings , and let me warn you , I may as well warn you , the more she dislikes somebody , the more somebody annoys her , the more careful she is not to hurt their feelings , in fact the only people she is ever rude to are people like me and Gabriel and Papa , I mean people she cares for enough not to worry about being fair to . |
| 15 | intended to stay , because the immediate reaction to something like that happening is n't necessarily erm , all bad , I mean people are quite glad that they are still alive and they 're quite prepared to put up with the possible fallout of the consequences of that so that they can stay in their own homes . |
| 16 | Down at about a thousand units erm you er b between ten thousand and a thousand units er you 'd suffer the symptoms of radiation sickness erm your hair would drop out and your teeth would drop out and you 'd vomit and your skin would turn a funny shade of green and and you 'd be very ill erm but you , you 'd probably recover er you might not but you , you , I mean people have actually had those sort of doses of radiation and have actually recovered er from it . |
| 17 | yes but I mean people do n't give up what they have , that 's human nature . |
| 18 | But I mean people are very kind on the whole . |
| 19 | and suddenly I mean people lived for centuries there |
| 20 | Seriously , I mean people , I 'm sure here have seen |
| 21 | Well it sounds blissful , but of course I mean a lot of terrible things happen in the name of love including crimes , crimes of passion as there romantically called in France , I mean people have killed for love , yes . |
| 22 | I would agree er , that it 's strange er once you start something , I mean people come up and say well we 've got a whole information bank here and other people have a whole information bank there and yet the ability of people who are caring , for adults or children , to get out , run round forty agencies and come home loaded with leaflets , pushing three children and a parent , you know is is quite difficult ! |
| 23 | erm , I mean people who spend their entire Saturday doing something that they , I mean , I do n't enjoy going out every Saturday ! |
| 24 | I mean people it is question of how you say you well enough that |
| 25 | Cos she understands that she 's got to help God I mean people around her that are suffering . |
| 26 | I mean people were dying , men were dying , my brother died , he got killed in the War , pe every day you went to work and somebody would tell you , So and so 's died , you remember so and so , he 's died . |
| 27 | But I mean people lived in those days you know I mean , you know where the is do n't you ? |
| 28 | I mean people ha found they had something else in common . |
| 29 | And erm er from what I 've seen I mean people are often at football games for ten o'clock kick off and so on , which means er that 's just one example , which means they could be away , half past eight in the morning . |
| 30 | I mean people who would not normally be involved with young boys or young girls , into a quarter of an hour of contact . |