Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean nothing could catch my imagination fantasy . |
| 2 | I mean them let's face it one out the three of us should of thought a bit more . |
| 3 | And while we eat I 'll entertain you with tales of Robin . |
| 4 | Mibbe I should send it back . |
| 5 | ‘ I regret I must leave you at the door , Lady Isabel . |
| 6 | for strength — I fear I shall find it difficult in the heat : |
| 7 | A storm arrives from the west , the snow falling so thickly in a few minutes that I fear I will lose my way . |
| 8 | I du n no I mean I 'll mention it to the deputy again and say look we 're getting towards the end of a financial year , there will be some departments underspent because er suppliers ca n't meet deadlines and really you should keep in mind that w we have n't got er we ca n't just pluck five thousand pounds out of our budget . |
| 9 | I mean I 'll bung them in to you at some point |
| 10 | I mean I 'll bring them back again . |
| 11 | Er well I mean I 'll have my fireworks on Friday night the fifth of November but erm |
| 12 | You mean I shall meet your brother ? |
| 13 | I 'll see how the weather goes I mean I might hang it out I do n't know . |
| 14 | You mean I might lose my hair … my teeth ? ! ’ |
| 15 | I mean I would do you er have ? |
| 16 | I mean I would open my eyes and see myself like that , wake up and then I 'd bounce off the bed and then I 'd sit there bouncing and , and but I have n't had that in a long time and wh when I thought now a lot of times , if I think that I leave either the front door unlocked , my house unlocked or the garage door open I go and actually check that in the middle of the night . |
| 17 | And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies . |
| 18 | I do n't want to be tied , I want to leave my options free so that I can do whatever I want , I do n't need the extra responsibility , I mean I 'd like them but I just , I want my career first . |
| 19 | See what you 've done though , but erm I mean I 'd hate you just |
| 20 | pound fifty or something for like a shampoo and rinse I mean I 'd use it if I go in there . |
| 21 | Stay with that a minute , erm , erm , I mean I would n't have thought we were in a position to give an assurance that er erm , that that no other complaints which appear to be outside the local ombu ombudsman 's restriction will be dealt with by support staff , I mean I should think we 're continuing looking continually looking for ways of dealing with complaints at the most efficient and effective way , and if that |
| 22 | Erm I mean I should think you want to take some shorts in case it 's warm do you . |
| 23 | I mean I should imagine there are so many people now looking for jobs |
| 24 | I mean I must admit I 've looked at some other flats . |
| 25 | No I 'd just be , I mean I must admit I 've , I 've not really seen one for years and years and years . |
| 26 | And this is confusing , I mean I must admit it is confusing and even , even s writers in the psychoanalytic literature get confused by this , because sometimes they , they er do n't see that to some extent the two systems are overlapping and to some extent they 're about di slightly different things . |
| 27 | I mean I must say it looks a bit bitty but erm er now you see up there they 've got the same , similar sort of style really to those houses . |
| 28 | I mean I can move it and I can make i but I , I do n't |
| 29 | Well I mean I can assure them that the , the National Rivers Authority in the Thames region is monitoring rivers on a daily basis throughout the year and that we would hope to deal with pollution incidents as they occur , and we would hope with our monitoring and the pressure we put on third parties to er actually over the years , to improve things from what they are at the moment and to make things better . |
| 30 | I mean I can give you a little example erm I was once trying to add up a series of figures in the middle of an admissions exercise , and one of the other one of the men said to me ‘ oh , come on , you 're far too pretty to do mental arithmetic ’ and I completely lost my train of thought , I got rather confused . |