Example sentences of "[pron] mean i [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I mean I saw something interesting last night |
| 2 | Yeah well b well what I 'm trying to say and I ca n't emphasise it too strongly is that I do n't want anybody going round like writing another stupid letter to somebody saying that erm you know the reason we 're inundated that it has n't been advertised properly cos I tell you what it 'll come back right in our faces cos it 's our bloody fault Well that 's right well we know that I mean I told them all I told them all quite clearly when I was up in Glasgow that they 'd be quiet for at least a month because p it 'll take time to filter through . |
| 3 | I mean I take it that nobody wants to recruit un until unless they 're certain they can keep , |
| 4 | its not how they came into the world of real names to stick with prat names like Beatrice and , I mean I know its old royal and that and I mean fancy going to school in that bloody Henry and William , I mean William 's not too bad |
| 5 | Yeah , so if it were in the dictionary , I mean I know you able to turn to the |
| 6 | and I , I showed her around some I , on the way back I said I 'll take you to Branston Park on the way back and I 'll show you where John 's working and I took her on to the , into the car park and I said look there he is up , huh , cutting the lawn , he was up cutting that , the big lawn she said one massive place I mean I took her all the way through Branston Park back to erm |
| 7 | I do n't think so I mean I left it all last night and everything seemed er amicable and er I have n't heard anything to the contrary today . |
| 8 | ‘ Somewhere , ’ Lee said , ‘ I do n't know where — in Africa , I think — there dwell two tribes , close to one another — I mean I think their assumed boundaries could well be adjacent — who hold diametrically opposed attitudes to the birth of twins . |
| 9 | I mean I think you all learnt from the one way system and the fiasco erm of that was actually there . |
| 10 | Is it just , well I was j er I mean I find it hard cos I suppose everybody to some extent , in the , the extent to which they live in their own house , |
| 11 | But I mean I bought my artificial my white one ten years ago now . |