Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] we [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I mean increasingly we see that we 're , we get more constables here more constables there , but they do n't ever appear to be actually out on the streets , and until we can get more men on the streets with the deterrent effect that their appearance has , let alone anything else , we are not gon na get much further .
2 But I mean I I expect , I mean even we had some left over e eventually you could sell them to our own members because they 'd all want to use it
3 When you , when you look and you see how people survived and of course they delivered the that you , I mean like we had dripping and bread .
4 Yes I mean in a sense that just sort of shows that a lot of people would agree with Lakehoff in the sense that they think that women use a lot of tag questions and have that speech style , erm I mean like we 've been able to see , and what we can say is that men and women 's language is different er and it 's even possible to say in what way it 's different , but the difficulty becomes when we actually want to say why those differences are .
5 I mean like we 've had er woman
6 Well no , well I mean like we do I mean I mean but I mean my gross up about three hundred over Tony 's but I put in many hours right ?
7 I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year .
8 do we want to erm go I mean obviously we want to go away and I 'll do it with my friend and you 'll do it your
9 Oh yes , there is I mean obviously we do n't do that for seventy pounds because we could n't obviously .
10 I mean then we did n't even go into Fulford , we stopped there .
11 I mean basically we go there and the meat shop do n't we ?
12 I mean basically we have had organize it this year .
13 Yes I mean basically we need to first of all decide , I think this is what we 're deciding in the first instance , which option for the provision of information you find the most helpful .
14 I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of .
15 Cutting bricks is another fault of Russ , it 's all commonsense actually if you think about it , I mean actually we 've drove round at night looking at people 's walls and things like that and some were absolutely appalling , they 've obviously paid money to have that done , so you , you , you can see it do n't have to be absolutely perfect
16 I forget how we learnt that he was coming under its auspices , but I do remember that our wish — that is to say , the wish of myself and Michael Cullis , by then an established friend — to entertain him during the visit , produced a minor clash with the English Club secretariat .
17 ‘ I think I know where we 've gone wrong .
18 I know when we go out we leave our lights on .
19 I know when we 've er sold the house , when our children all went and left us , the house was for three bedrooms , right , and I , I said to my husband I do n't want to stay here because they built the school outside behind our er , erm back yard , and every , all the rubbish that kids throw threw over and I said to him I do n't want to stay now kids , kids gone , children gone leave , left home , got married and went to off , I said I do n't want to live here , I do n't want to retire to , to stay at home and listen to the kids at school all day long and have the rubbish thrown over the hedge
20 in er , we had a cutting somewhere Marie , oh I know when we became a limited company , er that 's right and er we put in erm formally erm er take over the business
21 er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was
22 But I know when we went in Co-op the other day , last week were it there was a load
23 I mean I know when we moved house I had folder and one of each had got in it the recycling directory
24 Oh this is this is you here is it ? the other side of the , cos I know when we tried to take photo 's off John , tried to take photo 's of John on the television because he could n't do it with all the flash or .
25 Because then , you just look at it and say , Ah I know how we got here , that reminds me of that one I did the other week where it came out looking like this .
26 Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow .
27 I need , I need to have to give , I know how we feel but he 's getting older
28 And look at the way he 's slept on it oh I 'm not running Tim , I ca n't cope this morning , I know sometimes we do , but I need to walk to the gate like a lady
29 Er Eric and I know fully we 've been through that , fingers crossed behind our backs .
30 I remember when we rode here , your father and I. Young and strong we were .
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