Example sentences of "what i [verb] [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , what I mean is we were still children when we arrived here in a sense . ’ |
| 2 | What I mean is my headache 's gone . ’ |
| 3 | What I mean is he 's gone for a chop-job . |
| 4 | She said , what I mean is he 's so terribly good-looking , one could forget he 's so stupid . |
| 5 | ‘ What I mean is you should have a reasonably clean bill of health by then , ’ Doctor Staples said . |
| 6 | Perhaps what I mean is you have a powerful feeling of love , and while you 're on drugs , you experience no hate or fear . ’ |
| 7 | Oh I mean , what I mean is you 've not |
| 8 | Now when I say say something interesting what I mean is I want you to pick something that you that T N T do . |
| 9 | Oh no , what I mean is I 'm not gon na be able to get away without people |
| 10 | I mean er what I mean is it needs to be done this week sort of thing . |
| 11 | What I mean is she enjoys life . ’ |
| 12 | What I remember is my business . |
| 13 | I turned around to see Mr Lu playing what I thought was his third shot . |
| 14 | documents clearly set out to the staff , what I thought was our collective understanding of the section engineer oblique project engineer relationship |
| 15 | I turned up dressed in what I thought were my best clothes — a corduroy suit from Take Six with Oxford bags à la Trevor Eve in Shabby Tiger which was on TV at the time Both of which were quite cool things to wear then . |
| 16 | I should practise what I preach is what I should do , ’ Terry continued . |
| 17 | But we do talk and what I know is you are essentially a decent and totally wonderful human being and I 'll hang around a long time for you . |
| 18 | But now you must forget you are wearing new clothes and relax into what I know is your natural grace . ’ |
| 19 | Well actually what I 've been I 've been taking two before I go to bed at night . |
| 20 | What I lose is my full ability to monitor and assess correctly a given situation . |
| 21 | Is that , that 's not what I said is it ? |
| 22 | What I said was there was some discretion was in the hands of the Home Secretary when he brought forward that commencement date and what he would have in mind is of course the er er not merely what happens er er i er erm in the er er our colleague countries in the community on their commencing er their changes , er but also in the kind of time we would actually need , political parties would need , candidates would need , to run an efficient election campaign here . |
| 23 | Yes yes but what I meant is it does n't stop us being |
| 24 | Oh but my Lord yes , but what I meant was nothing else was put as a far more serious suggestion . |
| 25 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 26 | No , what I meant was I meant to buy it , I wanted to buy a refill for it , but I ended up not buying the right fibre tip pen for it |
| 27 | ‘ What I return is my trust , ’ says Enya . |
| 28 | Well , what I knew was I would get no more . |
| 29 | What I want is something , I do n't know what , but when you see it it means the Alps . |
| 30 | What I want is something to eat , now ! |