Example sentences of "[subord] i mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I mean our , invariably our in involvement is much greater than the Q S. |
| 2 | To minimize confusion , I shall use consumerism where I mean the first , and the consumer movement to denote the second . |
| 3 | Except I mean , if anybody thought they were oak cokin th coffin that would have to come from somewhere else . |
| 4 | an individual or as now as a , a Neighbourhood Watch , although I mean it 's not the main function of Neighbourhood Watch to do not noisy parties , but it could do , then make a complaint to Newark and District Council |
| 5 | although I mean there may be a er an argument in terms of lowest costing for reviewing generally how many investigators we do need , and |
| 6 | Often I stay longer in the shop than I mean to because it smells so good . |
| 7 | That school , that school made more of an impression than I mean it was , if anything they were too soft . |
| 8 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I said more than I meant to , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Another time I noticed more than I meant |
| 11 | It came out more vehemently than I meant it to . |
| 12 | featured the last er three years some of the other companies have only been here since last year and the year before so I mean we 're a national tour operator |
| 13 | But Paul 's head over that now so I mean he 's doing well for himself . |
| 14 | But I might , I have n't bothered about the food so much , I thought cos once I mean I used to go behind the , and I thought I 'm having my sa lunch time and I 'm going to enjoy it and I am not going to sit in corners ! |
| 15 | One tentative voice asked if I meant ‘ deprived women like those of the East End ’ , but this too was slapped down by others — ‘ in these days of inflation , are n't we all deprived ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ as if I meant to ! |
| 17 | As regards utilising the services of third parties for debt collection , you have once again assumed the worse scenario as if I meant their complete extinction , which I quite clearly stated ‘ less dependent ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Go on , ’ I said as if I meant it . |
| 19 | Er without having a good relationship with the people in the flats , er if I mean some people if they say see something going off , they 'll turn their you know , turn their back and they do n't want to know . |
| 20 | If I mean to mind a thing I never mind it |
| 21 | Erm I do n't know if I mean remember that in order to do any compositional semantic theory , you have to assign structuring . |
| 22 | See what see what you can do and perhaps er Jane you could just look into the possibility of erm because if I mean if we were going to do a run of pens we would n't just have a thousand would we ? |
| 23 | okay , so if I mean if you come to me and see and say we wan na exchange on tomorrow |
| 24 | Yeah , if I mean , if she comes in everyone 'll be fine with her wo n't they ? |
| 25 | But it 's difficult to get there , if I mean it 's quite a . |
| 26 | And we all believe each and every one of us , that if there was a , a much er , stronger police presence , i if I mean , a bobby |
| 27 | all the things that 's like and ours , I say with ours they 're cutting back and cutting back all the time until I mean it 's under funded now , it 's under staffed already , thirty seven , thirty eight in the class , so what do they do now , they want to save seven million on education |
| 28 | But that 's so quickly out of date again you see the good wood cos I mean they they have new government schemes , schemes every year do n't they ? |
| 29 | They had , there , there was a small section still made kettles during the war cos I mean kettles wore out , wear out just the same , you 've still got to have a kettle or a bucket , but erm that 's like everything else there was only , only a small section so they was in short supply . |
| 30 | Cos I mean presumably they were n't between eighteen fifty and nineteen fifty they were n't practising excessive birth control |