Example sentences of "mean [pron] can [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean I can always collect it Thursday night . |
| 2 | I mean I can still see my hand moving |
| 3 | Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers . |
| 4 | When we pointed the ending out to them , some said " You mean you can sometimes tell what a chapter is about by looking at the end " and others said " 0 Lord , how many times have I been told ! " |
| 5 | but , but I mean you can only make it worse by like you say , you 're wasting your own time and money |
| 6 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 7 | I do n't know , I mean we can either take him up |
| 8 | Well I mean we can always unmake it presumably cos next week it will be , it 'll be different time I expect wo n't it ? |
| 9 | My little red RYA Level 1 Certificate does n't mean I can now start my solo circumnavigation of the world , but I like to think it 's a step in the right direction . |
| 10 | Magill was n't the first time I 've given my Little All for my job , but that ca n't mean I can only get it right when … |
| 11 | I am confident that we are well able to meet any of today 's challenges but this does not mean we can ever relax our efforts to achieve the best in every possible respect . |
| 12 | Their lack of routine means you can often encourage them to feed when you want them to — such as just before you set off on an outing . |
| 13 | And as our science correspondent David Whitehouse reports , it means we can now see what cities and building looked like hundreds of years ago . |
| 14 | A Morrissey fan said : ‘ By sending the original tickets you 're giving up the only proof you ever had of having bought them , which means they can just ignore you . |