Example sentences of "[pron] mean [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's a bit i well I , well I could do but it 's a bit tricky I mean to some |
| 2 | I mean for that er |
| 3 | I mean for this market research one , we ought to finish this tonight because if she comes tomorrow |
| 4 | It wor i I mean for those it did work |
| 5 | I mean with all that stuff about little coteries , and cosy dinner-parties , and so on … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ This is the time , and I am saying what I mean with all my heart . |
| 7 | Cos he 's bound , I mean with all that mud and everything , I mean there 's lots of sheep droppings and god knows what up there is n't there ? |
| 8 | Yeah well I mean with all this noise and that you do n't feel like doing much do you ? |
| 9 | That 's what I mean with that Jean you probably wo n't need vitamins . |
| 10 | Well I do n't know about that , I mean with some schools it 'd be a good idea to get them away from it . |
| 11 | I mean with this exhibition that we 've booked ‘ Just the Job ’ , which is black women erm and the kind of jobs that they 've got , a large percentage are carers and erm and it is the thing that erm women feel that they can do and it erm in a way that it comes out of their role in the home , the caring role , and erm and it 's a role that they get sort of erm trapped into and it does n't pay very much money , as Brenda was saying earlier . |
| 12 | Well they were , they were really dependent on , I mean on each other , they were a unit even though they were two families in a way |
| 13 | ‘ That is n't what I mean at all . |
| 14 | That 's not what I mean at all . |
| 15 | I mean at that time say perhaps go in the pub the or the or the , I mean there used to be so many pubs round the er , the dock area then , I mean you take the , and erm then there used to be the erm there was all them pubs round the dock then , noth one or two more but I ca n't re oh the was another one . |
| 16 | I mean we 've , I mean at that point you 've got that was the point where you 've got the massive United States aid coming in erm you , you 've got erm United States equipping China with all enormous fire power , sending tanks in etcetera , I mean this was the beginning of , of the realization of the United States that , that the communists were a threat and they did n't like it and they , they were putting massive ai aid erm and , and that there was all that United States war machine erm |
| 17 | I mean at that point I would either do that , you know er change it or that would have been it |
| 18 | Well this is about , I mean at this point it 's about one o'clock in the morning . |
| 19 | Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ? |
| 20 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |
| 21 | But I mean as any adoptive parent here will tell you , the strains when you adopt a child , or adopt children , very disturbed children are much worse ! |
| 22 | See what I mean about that skirt ? |
| 23 | And yo and your er see what I mean about this area up here , I mean it 's not a bad thingy . |
| 24 | That 's what I mean about this bloody thing , that it does n't it straighten it . |
| 25 | I mean that 's what I mean about this hundred days , we 've been at war , and I think the job of the press , I mean is not |
| 26 | ‘ I mean afore that ? ’ |
| 27 | No no no I mean since this . |
| 28 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
| 29 | ‘ Those trees were superb ; there was drama in each figure I was going to say , but I mean in each tree … . |
| 30 | I mean it 's , I mean er , we still consider , I mean in many ways it 's , it 's Breckland but particularly Norfolk we want to particularly their members we want to get , we want to get to , I mean er , you 'll need obviously great support authority District Council but er , er I will , I will consider that , but I do n't really think it 's necessary for that |