Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You let me think you had a serious boyfriend , that you were on the point of marriage . ’ |
| 2 | The angle of the lamp cord on the bar made me think I saw a hearing-aid cable extending from Fielding 's ear . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Er and they thought of , I mean they thought the world of their their animals and but |
| 5 | ‘ Regrettably , our ancestors of some thirty-five centuries back do n't seem to have given too much thought to posterity , by which I mean they left no records to satisfy their descendants ’ intellectual curiosity . |
| 6 | so they , I mean they flogged the cheaper lines and they could have through the door like |
| 7 | I mean they made a nice shell , but I like these . |
| 8 | Mind you the firm that was in there Blue Bag I mean they abused the bloody place they did . |
| 9 | Er I mean they had a family in er Russia did n't they ? |
| 10 | But er yes , no it is th I mean they had a lot of business from banks and areas like that |
| 11 | but I mean they had a lot as well at one time did n't they ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mind you , I mean they had the dog they had before , got run over . |
| 14 | Well I think we were very lucky at the start that were were just starting up in England and they were actually more into what we were doing than er to the extent that I think that maybe other record companies might have laughed at them and said they 've no hope of surviving but I mean they had the Furies with er Sweet Sixteen and then they had er about six hit singles from Foster and Allen and about six or seven albums and then they went down to Daniel O'Donald which became an enormous success so I think when that happened then all record companies kind of said well maybe there is something here . |
| 15 | I mean John Knox and Martin Luther Thingmy , I mean they built the Kirk on the tenets of independence . |
| 16 | I mean they wanted the commission |
| 17 | Oh and we 'd love to do swimming , erm , because we 'd done as a surprise for Carla for Christmas cos I mean we said the kids are getting older now , Dave heard it on the radio , erm , for one fifty a head , erm they were opening Guildford 's swimming pool erm , from ten till twe twelve ? |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | Yes I mean we had a case recently I think the son was twenty four all these perpetual students . |
| 20 | I mean we had a lot of them are run anyway on credit , there 's no real capital lying behind those businesses . |
| 21 | You know I mean we had a woman in pub , |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | I mean we had an example from the miner 's strike but that ha was happening far away in a sense and it was just something that you could support or yo you did n't support or you put a tin of beans in the box in Quix and that was what you did you know sort of And then actually faced with having to accept food from that people had given you in a way , it 's a very quite a difficult concept . |
| 25 | By discussing reasons with the deputy I mean we had the meeting on public relations before Christmas and the scrutiny was promised and nothing 's happened erm , we still soldier on we 're not . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | yes , I mean we got the end result , |
| 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 | Yeah I mean we did the fourth but |
| 30 | 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 . |