Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked how it happened . |
| 2 | But I mean otherwise it 's got all the , all the good points in there , it 's a pity that councils do n't have these meaningful names |
| 3 | Well I mean surely it 's , that 's the point now is to try to make a fair erm law and one that is ideologically erm designed seeing we 've got to power , or we 've got certainty of obtaining power , therefore land ownership has got to be land ownership which has been capitalism Marxist |
| 4 | But I mean even it obviously does n't cost them over a thousand pounds to produce and i we would n't have bought it anyway , so in a sense it is n't they 're not actually losing much by giving to us are they ? |
| 5 | Mhm so I mean well it it 's gon na be an archive and maybe people can who want to analyse everyday language can get tape recordings from it and er y'know perhaps it can be used in scholarship , perhaps it can be used in socio-linguistics or whatever . |
| 6 | Now he does say he would you know he even thinks he could be a Gold Cup horse and emulate Dawn Run I mean again it 's it 's great claims this early on but er they would n't be running him if they did n't think he 's got a chance . |
| 7 | the thing , I mean again it 's , it 's different , but |
| 8 | I mean clearly it will continue to grow and therefore any that you do will be will be greater . |
| 9 | in the end I mean normally it was the other way round , the Labour candidate could n't wait to get out , cos you know trying to get out the door and John was |
| 10 | I 've got a Congress fund which , I mean today it 's getting so dear to go to Congress erm you know , the hotels are so dear . |
| 11 | I mean perhaps it could take the form of Adult Attendance Centres , but erm we need something which is seen to be punitive but which falls sort of full deprivation of erm liberty . |
| 12 | I mean perhaps it 's not something there used to doing too much , but is it not possible to get them to amuse themselves ? |
| 13 | Well they us I mean usually it 's red , you can have blue raddle , but it 's raddle is usually red . |
| 14 | The software package I mean sometimes it comes with the deal we do n't charge extra . |
| 15 | you know I mean sometimes it is erm so , I mean is there anything that you think , you know , we could change or you could change to , to like improve the situation ? |
| 16 | I do n't know I mean sometimes it goes and I think she 's in there do n't you ? |
| 17 | Because it it 's it 's it 's a I mean frankly it it gives the impression that this remarkable political force which has governed a democracy longer than any other political f party in history , has somehow or other created a new philosophy in the last ten years . |
| 18 | Erm there there were quite a few interesting debates that that came up about policing after the riots , I mean initially it was the fact that you did n't see any policemen in the flats at all . |
| 19 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 20 | Well that 's something we would obviously have to sort of , I mean maybe it 's something where you know I mean with the |
| 21 | Erm er I do n't know , I mean maybe it would be like it would be like you give a fairly sort of neutral statement and you have the adjectives at the end of the scale give indicate the responses like y'know something like how do you feel about homosexuality and you could have sort of y'know erm natural to unnatural or something like that erm |
| 22 | Well c certainly I mean obviously it has an impact on on individuals who feel |
| 23 | Erm but I mean obviously it 's a different situation , and the Chancellor 's still got some manoeuvring to do , but we could end up in , in rapid inflation again , because we have n't had it for ten years . |
| 24 | And can you does it , I mean obviously it bothers you , but I mean |
| 25 | Erm , I think the scheme has been delayed for quite a long , well , I mean obviously it 's important to get this scheme off the ground and when people , and I 've had lots of phone calls and discussions about this , and when people have spoken to me I said , it 's important to bear in mind two things . |
| 26 | I mean obviously it 's good for you as well cos you know er you know w , you know we 'll obviously put are appearing on Pebble Mill blah di blah di blah , er I was wondering if it was possib oh yeah that 's okay mate . |
| 27 | Yeah , and I say , you know I mean obviously it 's too big but I mean not from from the point of view that the buildings are right outside of them ai n't they ? |
| 28 | a year ago now and erm so er I mean fortunately it was bought er as a going concern |
| 29 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 30 | And they , it was a bit frightening because we were in a group of seventeen and see what I mean when , I mean how it starts is like if were starting with me , I have to say I 'm Tony , right , and then you would say I 'm Jackie and this is Tony and then Christine would say I 'm Christine this is Jackie , this is Tony , I was at the end of a group of seventeen and I had heard it sort of , you hear it , it builds up round the room |