Example sentences of "i [vb base] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after 1 February can I go more or less where I please and then there is a need to work quite quickly since the ferreting season ends in April when the fast-growing vegetation and the increasing arrival of litters of young rabbits make it impractical to continue . |
| 2 | But I regret that nowhere has any formal green belt as yet been proposed . |
| 3 | JC : I regret that so much of the spoken word is now cut . |
| 4 | born in Church Street I , I was only one , there were no brothers or sisters which for the record , I regret because all around me I had cousins , dozens of them and erm the families round me was big families and it was the , there was er times when it was bad weather or something like that and you could n't congregate outside , you 'd go to somebody 's house , are you coming ? |
| 5 | By this I mean that both the designer and colleagues may be too expert , too sophisticated , too used to jargon , too well-educated and able to verbalize . |
| 6 | it ca I mean that just ca n't be true . |
| 7 | If you 've got inequalities and everything then you say ah yes , it 's all very good , we need this , the Marxist class struggle , I mean that just seems like a ridiculous argument to me . |
| 8 | I mean that rather a nice Chinese restaurant in the high street does take away . |
| 9 | ‘ I mean that presumably you would have been required to pay for your bed and board in the normal way without subsidy . |
| 10 | but I mean that probably would n't appeal to the people we have presently seeking maternity leave . |
| 11 | Mm that 's what that girl 's just said to me you get a lot of erm , she said he 'll know it 's hard and I was saying that you know I , I put all me eggs in one basket with that , I mean that really knocked me for six |
| 12 | well this people I mean with , with , that I mean that really is more or less the same amount as the other companies have said for er more or less the whole lot , so why the wardrobes are so cheap and yet the , the bed surrounding is so expensive , we do n't know |
| 13 | I ca n't , I mean that really is just gross . |
| 14 | By that I mean that substantially fewer customers have terminated contracts citing reasons of dissatisfaction or failure to deliver . |
| 15 | Er I mean that very helpful discussion , er though aspects of it have already been included . |
| 16 | But I mean that yesterday afternoon you 'd have thought the bloody things were in here would n't |
| 17 | Well of course they are behind the line of your house , I mean but even so it 's sort of , erm |
| 18 | I mean but anyway that 's nothing to do with being thick by the way . |
| 19 | Yeah I know , I mean but like where am I supposed to put it ? |
| 20 | You 're supposed to act natural when the tape 's recording , I mean but there again with |
| 21 | I mean but okay , well all it means is , you get twen yo once you start getting busy you get twenty twos not elevens . |
| 22 | But since none of that applies to you , you will know what I mean and probably share my fondness for Munro window-shopping . |
| 23 | Now , the Yale and Union locks they 'd got a certain type of locks that they produced and it was all done with a system , you know what I mean and more or less come to assembly and er they did that . |
| 24 | Then you could get a , a piece of wood very , very rough , understand me and then cast and then you could get the cast in down to exaction , you follow what I mean and then er you could what you want . |
| 25 | But er that I mean and then there 's that 's another thing we ought to look round , there 's the state of the shed outside |
| 26 | cos like you go dizzy and that , it hits your balance you know what I mean and then |
| 27 | Oh six I mean and then they come back at |
| 28 | Erm so , so I mean and then , you know , he describes various examples where you know if you get hit by your best mate you basically , you know , instead of telling him to F off you say down with imperialism type of thing . |
| 29 | And yes it erm I mean and therefore we would be reviewing current practices which is that erm you know the film is in the building , the cinema is open , the staff are there and we therefore show a film at four o'clock because there 's no extra charge for us doing so and we hope thereby to attract however many er patrons to see it . |
| 30 | I mean and usually it will you see most people are looking to past students when they mark . |