Example sentences of "mean [pers pn] do [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it it sort of keeps a sort of continuity in it and I mean I do think when we get to the end of the probationary year you 've sort of really learnt all the areas . |
| 2 | I mean I do think there are limitations with er |
| 3 | yeah , well I was there the other day and erm the bell went and nobody sort of moved and I thought I think , I know , you know , so I got up and I washed me cup of tea like , you know , they looked at me as if you know oh there 's a keen , but I mean I do think it 's important to do that , because not only that it 's not fair for the |
| 4 | I , I , I mean I do think that w what we would have to do is , is if people started making inroads into two via this route , it might mean then we 'd get to the point where it was n't going to cost that much more to enable other scale one people |
| 5 | erm I think I mean I do think it 's a stunt and I think stunts are very often not very well thought out , and I think your your definition is actually wrong . |
| 6 | I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously . |
| 7 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 8 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 9 | I mean I do happen to belong to a group of poets and we set one another subjects regularly . |
| 10 | But I mean I do get used to being on my own and then like I mean I say he 's there like the , the other morni he went down his mother 's and he did n't come back till three o'clock so he 's not there constantly all the time . |
| 11 | Er check locally for claims of environmentally or sustainable tropical hardwood it 's not really , I mean I do look when I go to all these D I Y places to see what they 've got . |
| 12 | They did n't talk to me I mean I did talk to they because |
| 13 | Shall I , I shall have to apologize to the council , cos I mean I did do the , the survey of the erm residents and of course I had flu last month , I do apologize , I did n't actually manage to get that done . |
| 14 | they were laughing and giggling up the corner and er , I mean I did go just to let them know that although I did say I would n't come to every meeting I was quite prepared to still do |
| 15 | I mean I did go to Denman , but I was n't very well at the time and I did n't get round the house so I would like to go myself . |
| 16 | I mean I did ask you about the outstanding bills and loans whereas if we 'd 've been doing the thing properly we 'd 've gone through that |
| 17 | I mean I did read somewhere there were some studies done |
| 18 | I mean I did have some of the boxes in there until I sort of , thought while I was sorting things out . |
| 19 | she only had the bloody cheek to charge us last year for a turkey wrong , but I mean I did get that sorted out afterwards . |
| 20 | I do n't I do n't know that I 'd fancy doing , I mean I did like biology , but I do n't think I 'd specifically want to do the biology at the level that they 're doing it up there , cos it 's too much of a jump from what I 've ever done before |
| 21 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 22 | They 're not bad really , they , no but I mean you do get a few damp ones now and again do n't you ? |
| 23 | I mean you do get more than forty pee to do a parcel . |
| 24 | Yes , well he s he did take it up with me as a , er , I mean you did take it up |
| 25 | I mean she does bugger all at home . |
| 26 | No I mean we do send the business plan up prior to the to the |
| 27 | Yeah I mean we do get people who come in on the sort of the Friday morning and they 've already got their done their business perhaps sought out professional advice elsewhere |
| 28 | There is always arguments as far as service work is concerned erm yes , I mean we do hear of complaints erm and obviously if it 's one of our dealers obviously we endeavour to try and resolve any problems if it is one of our dealers . |
| 29 | Erm but I mean we do have erm a session with them and and really all the information we gave was very sort of basic understanding . |
| 30 | I mean we do support , do n't we , things like the talking newspaper across the area , because there 's , and we do support like erm , Mrs 's holiday for youngsters , although they are not all Ottery kids , but I mean the fact of the matter is , I think we would need each time we look at any of this , that there are Ottery youngsters involved . |