Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pron] [verb] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I mean they do n't they just make everybody worse off .
2 You know , I mean we have n't I ai n't got a new car or anything , I 've had that
3 but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely .
4 I mean it does n't I used to hate it when I was doing plays there and you have er grease paint on and you 'd be you 'd try and you 'd have to cream on your face to get the grease grease paint off .
5 So does it , I mean it does n't it look anything like a ski slope I image ?
6 And erm but I mean I remember when I I was doing er work with the Open University now I was a sort of er tutor with them or counsellor with them and I think we used to say ten to fifteen hours work a week
7 That really turned my stomach , even if , I mean I remember when I was carrying , when I was carrying the twins , and he used to go out huge things you know , and so much so that if he came home in the night , right , and I was already in bed asleep , I would be able to er , he would wake me in the bedroom cos I could smell smoke on him , but he did n't smoke , but where he 'd been the pub or a night club , I smelt
8 I mean I remember when I went , first went to my cheap caravan site where there is n't a toilet and you have to walk to the toilets , and I remember a couple of times when I was little , shitting my pants on the way to the toilets , you know , cos I could n't hold it in .
9 I mean I remember when I was at the New York Times and I wanted to use Cheltenham wide for a headline , Cheltenham bold well sort of bold wide , but it 's just called Cheltenham wide in the book , and because Cheltenham was always part of the New York Times library , whatever you call it , in the composing room .
10 I mean I know when we moved house I had folder and one of each had got in it the recycling directory
11 Well yeah but I mean I 've like you know ones and two and that into it .
12 I mean I 've actually I tried to persuade a colleague of mine that I could quite easily sexually harass a male student of mine , and the reason I could do that , or the way I could do that , is because I have power over him .
13 I mean I had so I it did help .
14 times of I mean , I actually think it 's a an awful lot of ask of a friendship , or of a family situation and also , indeed , if you I mean I think sometimes they can be very supportive but th the true understanding may not be there and erm I think that 's what led me to start up a self- help group in Edinburgh erm which is , has been erm running for the last two years now .
15 Cos I mean I do n't they wan na be cut out or anything like that .
16 I mean I do n't I try to not to take a lot of notice of it you
17 Well I did n't tell him it he can wind it just erase it I mean I do n't I said I 'm alright love just to do all that , I 've got twenty tapes !
18 Well I , yeah I do I mean I do n't I do n't need them just yet , I mean I think I sha n't need to get them till we come back from the trip .
19 I mean you know when it works
20 Oh I sh I suppose they might have been but where they were made I , cos I mean you get like they used to b they used to deal in all shoes , no doubt they got them from them .
21 Yeah , oh yes , yes , but the point is that the mother knows it 's she 's not her reproductive system is not a passive erm I mean you see how it looks in
22 Well you put them , I mean he did n't he ?
23 some do but She said the idea I mean she said about I was asked a question about an American we 've got that is with us but he does n't preach very often , and I said well where is he ?
24 I mean she does n't she did n't know how many nights it would be
25 I mean she does n't she do n't get through a lot of chocolates does she ?
26 But I mean she did n't hers was n't fast tan one .
27 I expect you know why I 'm here ? ’
28 I mean , I expect she knew how you felt about the only things worth having being the things you 'd worked hard for and earned for yourself , so you would n't want her to leave you the house ] But she did n't want you to think she 'd forgotten you , or that she was just being spiteful , or something … ’
29 As I say I did n't I thought the girls was plus that fact it was a lot of concentration for the spooling .
30 ‘ Do n't worry , if I want him to shut up I 'll give him a dig and he 'll soon get the message !
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