Example sentences of "i mean [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they got a lot better living what we got and and and they was alright but the the you know you 'd never call them bloated capitalists because they were n't bloated really . |
| 2 | Well erm I mean they put a whole package together for me . |
| 3 | But I mean they get a lot about |
| 4 | I mean they made a nice shell , but I like these . |
| 5 | Er I mean they had a family in er Russia did n't they ? |
| 6 | But er yes , no it is th I mean they had a lot of business from banks and areas like that |
| 7 | but I mean they had a lot as well at one time did n't they ? |
| 8 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
| 9 | I mean they use a pair of radials |
| 10 | Because at the moment , er I mean they spend a lot of money on various footpaths that I know of which are a tremendous er price so let's be a bit cautious you know , because er |
| 11 | Oh , goodness yeah but now they , even today , I mean they have a strike and that 's settled just like that . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean they have a job . |
| 13 | I mean they have a go at all of them . |
| 14 | Well we are this end , but I mean they have a bit of trouble down down there by the club |
| 15 | and we had er , I mean we had a bright orange swivel chair and when that came out it was called the Orbit or something , something really weird and it had a big back on it and we thought it was great I mean , I think it 's awful now , some of the things we had , I 'll have to try and find some photographs cos I 've got a case full of photographs upstairs |
| 16 | Yes I mean we had a case recently I think the son was twenty four all these perpetual students . |
| 17 | I mean we had a lot of them are run anyway on credit , there 's no real capital lying behind those businesses . |
| 18 | You know I mean we had a woman in pub , |
| 19 | perhaps he 's been forewarned and just swapped over sides with , but I mean we had a full wind and light through then , well sort of |
| 20 | Yeah , yeah it 's a nice afternoon out , I mean we had a lovely dinner when we went did n't we , first time we went |
| 21 | I mean we had an example from the miner 's strike but that ha was happening far away in a sense and it was just something that you could support or yo you did n't support or you put a tin of beans in the box in Quix and that was what you did you know sort of And then actually faced with having to accept food from that people had given you in a way , it 's a very quite a difficult concept . |
| 22 | And eh , he seemed very knowledgeable , I mean we got a job to find him , he has n't actually got a shop , he 's just got a premises . |
| 23 | a long period of time , I mean we give a guarantee of two years on material . |
| 24 | You know , I mean we revert a lot of trade here to next day , so the quality of service has got to be good or we lose them . |
| 25 | I mean we provide a group environment for people who 've had psychiatric illnesses of various kinds in the past , and with a view to giving them something useful to do , something constructive and I hope , pleasurable , with a positive end product as well , which we then proceed to sell . |
| 26 | I mean we have a local school , Hayes School which is a very good comprehensive |
| 27 | erm the I mean we have a pentadactyl limb , whether we climb or run or fly or swim , you can recognise an obvious deep anatomical resemblance between the limbs of organisms behaving as differently as that , and therefore that if we really want to understand evolution we have to understand these erm , I do n't know whether one wants to call them plans or archetypes , or structures , call them what you will . |
| 28 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 29 | I mean we gave a certificate for St Aldate 's Courtyard for instance , because we felt it looked really very nice and so much better than the office block across the road . |
| 30 | I mean it introduces a an interesting thing . |