Example sentences of "i [vb base] you [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I mean you had to sort of come up , and grab a breath , and go under the water and try and swim away from it . |
| 2 | And so I mean you had to sort of go up several flights of stairs and you walked in and it , it looked lovely . |
| 3 | You 'd got the toilet there and behind the door , I mean you had to sort of squeeze yourself and shut the door , and behind the door was a shower . |
| 4 | They had n't got it it was n't , I mean you know to us it was qu , a cheap mortgage but sort of up there it was probably , you know sort of |
| 5 | We I mean you know with coal houses they they 're about this wide , about that high , of course you do n't put the coal that high do you cos it 's forty five degrees job . |
| 6 | Erm or I mean you know for advice about what they could do about D H S S. |
| 7 | That 's a particular no no I mean you know for goodness sake ca n't we av ca n't we actually ob observe studio discipline ? |
| 8 | And still you make sure I mean you know for that what I 've spent . |
| 9 | she already is in school , I mean you know for teaching like |
| 10 | Yeah , but you know I mean you got ta keep |
| 11 | Well , when , when it comes to talking about er transport in a rural area and , and talking about transport in the Western Isles , er were not talking about buses or trains , were talking about ferries and , and planes and you just wonder when you hear some of the statistics erm from these companies just what sort of service they are at providing to local people , where your talking about ferries at arriving in , in port at half past eleven to half past twelve at night , that 's not a service for local people , I mean you hear about British Airways increasing their domestic fares to er , by seven per cent as of the beginning of April er you just have to ask is this a service been put up provided for er local people , and it just is n't . |
| 12 | I mean you get to this stage where a certain age you can say no you 're not having it because they 've got to start to grow up at some point and she likes using the felt tips and she 's usually not too bad with them |
| 13 | Really ni , I mean you get in there and you feel really comfortable and everything 's there you got a nice radio as well and er but yeah , it 's really very nice ! |
| 14 | I think that and I mean you go with the sort of attitude , that lightning will never strike twice in the same place , but then again I mean who knows ? |
| 15 | I mean you go to other towns , they they might not know Nottingham , but they 've usually heard of . |
| 16 | Well , I do n't believe , they are after sound and the difference , you know , I mean you sit like this can you still hear me ? |
| 17 | Everyone buggers off I mean you sit around the parents ' car and you have the lunch with your sort of so |
| 18 | Well actually , the function of the youth bus is like in the absence of buildings in , in area 's where people want to go , it 's fulfilling that function , on the bus there are things like videos , people can play music , they also get erm , you know , we do n't just let them do what they want to do , although were , you know , where quite erm , quite progressive with them , we actually provide , we have information on the the bus , provide information , we 've got a Coun we involve local Councillor 's like on Aids and stuff like that , I mean you have to be quite sensitive when you do something like that , you know especially if , you know , with the age group , erm , but erm , you know you get younger people coming on , twelve year olds to thirteen year old and what not . |
| 19 | I mean you have to Christmas time though do n't you ? |
| 20 | I mean you look at yourself and you 've got a black face and a Cockney accent and you realize you do n't fit . |
| 21 | I mean you look at , see I I 've had , I felt like when I was coughing at work I felt like sitting there and I thought I ca n't believe this . |
| 22 | Oh yeah they 've got one forty R on there but , I mean you look at the set and it says er where did I get the number ? |
| 23 | I du n no erm , no I do n't like them at all it 's in fact I 'm not even impressed with it I mean you look at the people with G six hundred and you look at the fifty six |
| 24 | I mean you think about primal hunting adults like the bushmen or the Australian Aborigines , the the men do the , do the hunting for erm for meat and women do the , do the gathering for and the point is that er meat is very nutritious and it 's an important part of their diet and men go hunting and they come back and they share food with their wives and their relatives or someone and male parental investment is terribly important So women for instance if you ask David McKnight who 's a world authority on the Australian Aborigines and has spent many years living with them , say what do women look for in the traditional society , what do women look for in a husband ? |
| 25 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 26 | I think in the current atmosphere of local government reform , I mean maybe there is an answer there , I mean you work for local councils but much of your role is concerned with statutory instruments if you like , statutory issues , issues which have got absolutely nothing to do with the people who are supposedly making the decisions which you 're supposed to implement , they 're made nationally , and you have to implement them . |
| 27 | Right but the first year I mean you wan na get the I 'm surprised |
| 28 | I mean you started in forty eight |
| 29 | I mean you talked about this before but it was just a joke , right . ’ |
| 30 | Okay , erm I mean you say about even people who 've got members of their family over there , I mean I know that if it was me , I would want to know what was going on . |