Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] i mean [pron] " in BNC.

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1 but no I mean I i mean I 've lost a lot of good friends on it , and I would love to see them back alive but , there 's nothing much I can do about it .
2 He wants me I mean he wants to do me a favour , Paul , so he might gi he might , you know I mean he say for us , I mean for us he would
3 Do n't know we I mean we used
4 Do you know what I mean it is erm it 's his car and I ca n't do nothing wrong with it .
5 And it is five , do you know what I mean it is like what I used to say to Rose .
6 Well nothing but d' ya know what I mean it 's sort of .
7 We ca n't expect her I mean she 's very good hearted
8 yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred
9 You 've got black on , but this time you wear it I mean it 's
10 Do you see what I mean I do n't want this to drag on and on
11 Well like I said I think probably they 're really kicking themselves I mean I would be in their situation .
12 you know what I mean they have n't gone stagnate
13 No , well you know what I mean it 's , was I , I did n't know whether you had to pay
14 aye , I looked at you know what I mean it was er , what they call ?
15 If you know what I mean it was wrestling in those funny kind of shorts .
16 It well it does tapes yeah but it 's like the bass keeps on going down then it goes high then the main bit 's like You know what I mean it all gets crapped up so i 'll tape it again .
17 A a as I say er i it takes a bit of getting used to when you 're just making a meal for yourself , you know what I mean you 're you 're that used to carry 'em about and picking after 'em and
18 You know what I mean you know the one who 's got Mrs
19 You know what I mean you know all them kind of Walkmans they ca n't be all four hundred pounds .
20 But my mum 's pretty good you know what I mean she as long as I can arrange it round her she 'll arrange her arrangements around me sort of thing .
21 to love him come in the pub , you know what I mean he nice to talk to and that
22 he gave it them and never said owt , you know what I mean he just says oh there 's a Ninja in there and Batman and this that and the other and left them
23 And meanwhile we 'll keep going you know and er and do what we have to do which is to make sure that when they get dow when they get round to that table sitting down that well certainly the the quarry men are not gon na be hungry if if you know what I mean I mean they they gon na sit there with full bellies in a sense that they 're not gon na be starved back and I mean th that sounds rather dramatic and a cliched but I mean when you 're living on the bread line and expecting money from week to week I mean that 's what it 's all about is n't it you know and and the food parcel .
24 Yeah but if , if you know what I mean I , I thought she was er , I thought she was
25 Because , going back to the point earlier on , erm , when I was taught I say , it was a local nurse from th er , the clinic that taught us I mean I 've nothi , nothing against elder women in their fifties and whatever , but I mean , there again , one , it should n't always be females who teach about sex , it should be males , and it should be younger people to relate
26 But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down .
27 Yeah , but you see , you 've got the , you got all the other things in , down , down , underneath , well I mean if you started going in with a knife and you started cutting them I mean you could cut an artery or anything could n't you ?
28 I mean I er er I mean I just do n't know how you , you begin and end with this actually I mean I really do n't and I mean I think quite frankly if Hydro Electric were to go out and say okay , we will fund the purchase of twenty houses four bedrooms each for the homeless right I would have thought in terms of doing something I mean I walk round Princes Street and I see those poor sods and I say to myself
29 Mother would n't have anything to do with it whatsoever , do n't you bring anything , any of that stuff into our house , I mean of course it be this New Zealand lamb had just arrived on the scene before the First Word War , I mean nobody was , anybody dare have it I mean they 'd be standing on the pavement at eleven o'clock at night almost giving it away on Saturday night , but anyway that 's all changed now , we all eat it .
30 And erm I I I find it I mean I 'm not going to be sort of holier than thou about it all I mean , perhaps I myself might be tempted er one day .
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