Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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1 | On the other I sell them to make a living . ’ |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Well erm I mean they put a whole package together for me . |
4 | But I mean they get a lot about |
5 | I mean they made a nice shell , but I like these . |
6 | Er I mean they had a family in er Russia did n't they ? |
7 | But er yes , no it is th I mean they had a lot of business from banks and areas like that |
8 | but I mean they had a lot as well at one time did n't they ? |
9 | 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 . |
10 | I mean they use a pair of radials |
11 | 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 |
12 | Oh , goodness yeah but now they , even today , I mean they have a strike and that 's settled just like that . |
13 | ‘ I mean they have a job . |
14 | I mean they have a go at all of them . |
15 | Well we are this end , but I mean they have a bit of trouble down down there by the club |
16 | 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 |
17 | Yes I mean we had a case recently I think the son was twenty four all these perpetual students . |
18 | I mean we had a lot of them are run anyway on credit , there 's no real capital lying behind those businesses . |
19 | You know I mean we had a woman in pub , |
20 | 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 |
21 | 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 |
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 . |