Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very first film I made with Roy he took me to one side and he said ’ you 've been working a lot in the theatre and you 're playing to the back row of the the dress circle which is right for the theatre . ’ |
| 2 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I mean of course you 're going to be judged adversely perhaps , but i in a church you are being listened to by people who are of like mind , and therefore willing you to have something of value and interest to say to them . |
| 5 | well how can you not get somewhat attached to a child , I mean of course there 's children you do n't like , like adults you do n't like |
| 6 | erm if if like I mean for instance we were n't clear about what we were talking about |
| 7 | Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know |
| 8 | Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments . |
| 9 | Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things . |
| 10 | I 've already got one , I 'm not bothered about that , I mean for kids I think , I think it 's a good idea because well then they do n't lay on it |
| 11 | I mean with removals you ca n't say Well I 'm going to be two days late |
| 12 | No we 're not actually losing money but I mean with Traidcraft we are getting to the low point where we put borrowed stock |
| 13 | And also , I mean with badminton you have to be |
| 14 | I mean with Derek you never know whether he 's going to get home or not . |
| 15 | I mean having to come upstairs before you even get into the house is n't very good either , cos I mean with kids you 've got to carry the pushchairs up and everything and carry kids up and carry all your shopping up , it 's not , it 's not very practical having them upstairs . |
| 16 | There 's a slight I mean over hurdles there 's a doubt about his stamina |
| 17 | I mean in China they families and what have they got ? |
| 18 | yeah , I mean in Ireland they , fair enough , they call it the unionist party |
| 19 | And I mean in Spain it rains . |
| 20 | No but I mean in Manchester it was shocking was n't it ? |
| 21 | But I mean in Russia they , they were use yes I know but |
| 22 | And the other thing is that it 's er a wide syllabus is fine as long as you 're not expected to go in any depth , but you 're expected to go sort of both , a broad syllabus and into a little bit of depth more than perhaps erm I mean in effect I mean you 're not far off of covering A level psychology at this at tha the level we 're going to . |
| 23 | I 'm not sending him there I 'll have to get Geoff to tell you about the story of , you know erm drama he says is pretty bad because , I mean in drama you sort of mess about any way do n't ya ? |
| 24 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 25 | I 'm grateful to Mr for raising this very fundamental question which I wished simply to comment on about the strategic aspects , I mean in Chichester we 've now had , as you all know , fire and flood and we have the pestilence with us ! |
| 26 | I mean in fact I write in reasonably free verse , but there are all sorts of purposes , especially satiric purposes , for which rhyme is still very important . |
| 27 | Yes , it may be , I mean in fact he he was some problems by Gooch because he , Gooch put a man at deep sort of mid wicket or square leg another one back there to stop him hooking . |
| 28 | Now the burglar alarm 's probably the , the biggest thing , but we ca n't all afford the , I mean I have n't got one and I 'm a crime prevention officer , I mean by rights I should have one but I have n't . |
| 29 | Is it really any more rational to deny rather than affirm — am I , for example , sure that I mean by God what a religious person does , because if I do not then my dismissal of God 's existence rests on a logical non sequitur . |
| 30 | I mean like Alison she puts mushrooms in , she puts |